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Senior Data Engineer and Architect specializing in cloud lakehouse, real-time pipelines, and healthcare analytics.

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior data architecture or lead data engineering roles focusing on cloud lakehouse and real-time analytics in regulated environments, with strong technical leadership and mentorship opportunities.

I am a Senior Data Engineer and Data Architect with 10+ years delivering enterprise-grade data platforms across healthcare, financial services, and cloud-native environments. I specialize in modernizing legacy warehouses into cloud-based lakehouse architectures on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

I design scalable, event-driven streaming pipelines and analytics-ready schemas that enable actionable insights and improved operational performance. I have driven cost reductions (35% in cloud migrations) and measurable quality improvements (30% fewer data errors) through automation and governance.

I lead teams and mentor engineers to adopt best practices in data quality, DevOps, and ML-integrated pipelines, and serve as a bridge between business, clinical stakeholders, and engineering. I champion security-first architectures aligned with HIPAA, SOC2, and GDPR.

My technical toolkit includes Python, SQL, Spark/Flink, Kafka/Kinesis, Snowflake/Redshift/BigQuery, Airflow, Terraform, and ML/ops tools; I deliver reusable, modular data components and observability to ensure reliable, compliant solutions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Data Architect

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Vitalsight Health

Oct 2023 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Planned and executed enterprise-wide lakehouse architecture and governance on AWS, reducing operational costs by 35% and enabling high-performance analytics and ML workloads. Built event-driven pipelines with Kafka, Kinesis, and Spark and introduced automated data quality frameworks to reduce schema drift.

Data Architecture AWS RedShift S3 Glue Kafka Spark Data Governance Great Expectations

Lead Data Engineer

Timescale

Jun 2021 - Sep 2023 (2 years 3 months)

Led modernization from on-prem Hadoop/Oracle to AWS lakehouse (Redshift, Delta Lake, Glue), improving pipeline reliability and reducing development effort by 25% while supporting financial risk analytics and fraud detection. Implemented CI/CD and observability for production pipelines.

AWS RedShift Delta Lake Glue CI CD Data Modeling Spark Observability Team Leadership

Senior Data Engineer

BlindInsight

Jan 2019 - May 2021 (2 years 4 months)

Built ETL/ELT pipelines with Airflow, Python, and SQL to populate Redshift and Snowflake, improving downstream data accuracy and enabling product, finance, and operations analytics. Engineered real-time pipelines with Flink, Spark, and Kafka to reduce processing from hours to seconds.

Airflow Python SQL Redshift Snowflake Kafka Spark Flink ETL

Healthcare Data Engineer

DataForge

Aug 2015 - Dec 2018 (3 years 4 months)

Designed and maintained enterprise healthcare data warehouses (SQL Server, Teradata) and ETL workflows for EHRs and claims, ensuring HIPAA-compliant handling and improving query performance for clinical and financial reporting. Implemented governance and BI integrations.