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Farman Ali

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Senior Data Platform Engineer at PayPal who improved payment data availability by 40% with lakehouse pipelines.

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At PayPal, I engineered Bronze–Silver–Gold lakehouse pipelines for payment data, improving availability by 40%. I also optimized Spark workloads, reducing processing costs by 22% and critical-job runtime by 35%.

At WPP, I designed parameterized ingestion pipelines for 15 enterprise systems and improved cross-system reconciliation accuracy to 99%. I delivered dimensional datasets to eight reporting teams, reducing manual Power BI preparation by 12 hours per week.

At Amazon, I automated ingestion for 60 enterprise datasets and supported 12 ML feature pipelines with governed, versioned datasets. I also improved release workflows and incident response through automated deployment and monitoring.

Earlier, I developed data platforms across Snowflake, GCP, and Hadoop environments, improving analytics delivery, streaming latency, and data quality. My project work also includes secure patient-data interoperability using HL7/FHIR ingestion patterns and sensitive-data controls.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

PayPal logoPA
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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Sep 2025 - Present (1 year 2 months)

Improved payment-domain data availability by 40% by engineering Bronze–Silver–Gold lakehouse pipelines using Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Auto Loader, DLT, Kafka, and Spark Structured Streaming. Reduced Spark processing costs by 22% and critical-job runtime by 35% through execution-plan optimization, partitioning, caching, and Delta Lake file optimization.

WPP logoWP

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Jan 2024 - Aug 2025 (1 year 7 months)

Reduced new-source onboarding time by 35% by designing parameterized ingestion pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, and PySpark for 15 enterprise systems. Improved cross-system data reconciliation accuracy to 99% through automated validation, exception handling, and consistency checks across ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL, and reporting layers.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences logoNS

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering

2016 - 2020

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan, from 2016 to 2020.

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