Farooq Alee
@farooqalee
Senior Data Engineer and Solutions Architect building scalable, reliable cloud-native data platforms.
What I'm looking for
I am a seasoned data engineer and solutions architect with 7+ years building end-to-end data platforms that enable timely, accurate business insights. I design and implement scalable streaming and batch pipelines across AWS, GCP, and Azure, prioritizing reliability and maintainability.
My technical strengths include Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, and Snowflake, and I build pipelines using Python, SQL, and Scala. I have led cloud migrations, productionized ML models, and implemented IaC with Terraform and Helm to standardize deployments.
I champion data quality, governance, and observability through tools like Great Expectations, DataHub, Prometheus, and Grafana, ensuring lineage, testing, and monitoring across systems. I work collaboratively with product, analytics, and ML teams to deliver cost-effective solutions.
I also mentor engineering teams and drive operational excellence—focusing on clean code, strong validation, and recovery strategies so platforms scale gracefully as business needs evolve.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Lead Data Engineer
Gold Coast Health Plan
Jul 2022 - Present (3 years 8 months)
Led architecture and deployment of end-to-end data platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure, enabling streaming and batch analytics and improving platform reliability and observability for internal stakeholders.
Senior Data Engineer
Analytics8
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022 (2 years 5 months)
Architected and maintained scalable ETL pipelines and led migration of legacy systems to AWS, improving performance and reducing operational overhead for analytics teams.
Data Engineer
Etleap
Apr 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 8 months)
Built and maintained ETL pipelines with Python and SQL, supported orchestration with Airflow and AWS Glue, and improved data quality and reliability at an early-stage startup.
Education
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Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
etleap
Splunk
Azure Synapse
Apache Spark
AWS Glue
Apache Flink
Superset
Sigma Computing
Amazon S3
GitHub
GitLab
Kubernetes
Jenkins
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
NumPy
Pandas
PySpark
Dask
Debezium
dbt
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Cassandra
Hadoop
Gmail
Databricks
Redis
Terraform
Pulumi
Java
JSON
Logstash
Fluentd
Loki
MLflow
Kubeflow
Kafka
Apache Pulsar
FastAPI
Grafana
Kibana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
New Relic
Datadog
Amazon Kinesis
Elasticsearch
Kafka Streams
Airflow
Apache Beam
s3-lambda
TimescaleDB
Luigi
Amazon EMR
SQL
Mode Analytics
Clickhouse
Dagster
Ray
DataHub
Delta Lake
Great Expectations
ArgoCD
Amundsen
Collibra
Bash
Deequ
Typer
Factory
Beam
Jan
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