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Ash User

@ashuser4

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Contract-ready Staff Data Engineer delivering scalable cloud data platforms, streaming, and analytics.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek contract or senior roles building cloud-native data platforms where I can lead pipeline design, improve data quality, optimize costs, and enable self-service analytics.

I am a contract Staff Data Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering scalable data pipelines, ETL workflows, and real-time streaming solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I have built cloud-native data warehouses, led legacy migrations, implemented data governance (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2), and driven cost-optimization and observability efforts that produced measurable savings and reliability improvements.

I specialize in Spark, Kafka, Airflow, SQL optimization, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and I collaborate closely with analysts and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into production-grade data solutions. My work has reduced query and processing times, improved data quality and trust, and enabled self-service BI for enterprise users.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Staff Data Engineer

Current

Deloitte

Jan 2021 - Present (4 years 9 months)

Engineered real-time streaming data lake ingestion on AWS S3/Glue and optimized Redshift performance, delivering 20% monthly cloud cost savings and reducing query execution times by 5%. Automated infra provisioning with Terraform and implemented data quality and cataloging to improve trust and reduce downstream errors.

AWS S3 AWS Glue Redshift Terraform Datadog ELK Stack Data Cataloging Data Quality Streaming

Senior Data Engineer

ViitorCloud

Jul 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 5 months)

Designed real-time Kafka ingestion pipelines that reduced data lag from hours to minutes and built incremental ETL processes that cut processing time by 35%, while implementing RBAC and encryption to meet HIPAA/GDPR requirements.

Kafka ETL SQL Optimization Data Quality Prometheus ELK Stack RBAC Streaming

Data Engineer

Indium

Sep 2013 - Jun 2016 (2 years 9 months)

Implemented Flink streaming joins and aggregations for near-real-time fraud detection and recommendations, automated schema management and testing to eliminate production issues, and led cloud migration assessments from on-prem Hadoop to cloud platforms.

Flink Streaming Pytest Cloud Migration API Integration Data Validation Data Modeling

Data Analyst

AlphaBOLD

Jun 2011 - Aug 2013 (2 years 2 months)

Designed Power BI and Tableau dashboards and authored complex SQL for reporting, automating recurring reports with Python and Excel to eliminate manual delivery time and improve reporting accuracy.