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Farooq Tari

@farooqtari

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Data engineering leader building scalable cloud-agnostic data platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior data engineering or platform roles building cloud-agnostic, scalable data platforms with strong emphasis on governance, CI/CD, mentorship, and measurable business outcomes.

I am a results-driven Data Engineering Leader with over 10 years designing and implementing high-performance, scalable data infrastructure for Fortune 500 companies. I specialize in cloud-agnostic data platforms and modern data stack technologies to enable analytics and machine learning.

I have led large-scale data migrations, built lakehouse and medallion architectures, and optimized pipelines for cost, performance, and reliability across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I mentor engineering teams, champion CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, and drive data quality, governance, and observability initiatives.

Notable projects include architecting a unified customer 360 platform that improved engagement by 15% and a predictive maintenance solution that reduced downtime by 25%, saving $2M annually. I partner closely with stakeholders to translate business needs into robust, production-ready data solutions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead Data Engineer

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Syncsort

Mar 2021 - Present (5 years 3 months)

Designed and scaled batch and real-time data pipelines across AWS and Databricks, built lakehouse architectures and CI/CD with Terraform/GitHub Actions, improving data reliability for enterprise applications.

AWS Databricks Delta Lake Spark Terraform CI CD Tableau)Data Modeling Tableau

Senior Data Engineer

Quanterix

Apr 2018 - Feb 2021 (2 years 10 months)

Engineered scalable ETL pipelines and SOAR integrations across multi-cloud environments, developed Python automation to reduce MTTR and improved security-data workflows.

Python ETL AWS GCP)Azure APIs CI CD Automation GCP

Data Analyst

Zulily

Feb 2016 - Jan 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Led design and support of enterprise BI applications using Databricks and Power BI, built ETL and data models to improve dashboard performance and self-service analytics.

Databricks Power BI SQL ETL Data Modeling Alteryx Data Quality Agile