Atif Akbar User

I’m a Lead Data Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing, building, and modernizing enterprise data platforms across healthcare, FinTech, and SaaS. I lead end to end data engineering initiatives—cloud migrations, lakehouse/warehouse solutions, real time processing, and governance frameworks—to deliver scalable, reliable, analytics-ready datasets.

In my most recent role, I led cloud-native healthcare platforms using Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and Delta Lake, improving enterprise reporting performance by 60% and reducing manual data processing by 65%. I built real-time and batch ingestion pipelines with Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, REST APIs, and CDC, and I developed dimensional models and Data Vault architecture to improve data consistency and accelerate self-service reporting.

I’m also focused on engineering excellence and compliance-ready data. I implement automated quality validation and metadata management with Microsoft Purview, Unity Catalog, and Great Expectations (including HIPAA compliance), while driving CI/CD and infrastructure automation with Git, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform—improving deployment reliability by 45%. I mentor teams, run architecture reviews and code reviews, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to raise platform quality and team productivity.