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Principal Data Engineer building secure, scalable cloud data platforms for healthcare and enterprise.

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior engineering role building secure, scalable cloud data platforms with strong emphasis on automation, governance, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration.

I am a Principal Data Engineer with over 10 years designing, building, and owning large-scale data platforms across healthcare and enterprise environments. I specialize in cloud and hybrid architectures using Databricks, Apache Spark, Python, SQL, and modern data warehousing technologies.

I have led the development of reliable, secure, and compliant data integration and ETL/ELT solutions, optimized high-volume batch and streaming pipelines, and implemented CI/CD to improve release velocity and production reliability. I partner closely with analytics, clinical, and compliance teams to deliver trusted data platforms used organization-wide.

I mentor and guide engineering teams, establish engineering standards and data governance practices, and drive operational efficiency through automation, monitoring, and performance tuning. My work emphasizes data security, quality, and scalable architecture design.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Principal Big Data Engineer

Current

Stanford Health Care

Apr 2021 - Present (4 years 10 months)

Architected and maintained an enterprise Lakehouse platform supporting clinical, financial, and operational analytics; optimized distributed pipelines with Databricks and Spark to improve performance and reliability while enforcing HIPAA-compliant governance.

Databricks Apache Spark Delta Lake Python SQL Data Modeling CI CD Data Governance Performance Tuning

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Principal Data Engineer

Current

Stanford Health Care

Apr 2021 - Present (4 years 10 months)

Architected and led enterprise-scale data platforms using Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, Snowflake, and Azure, optimizing pipelines that process millions of healthcare records and improving release velocity with CI/CD automation.

SQL Snowflake Azure CI CD Data Modeling Databricks Apache Spark Python

Staff Data Engineer

MacRepairSF

Mar 2018 - Mar 2021 (3 years)

Designed and maintained high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines integrating relational and NoSQL sources, APIs, and cloud storage in Azure, improving pipeline reliability, scalability, and analytics readiness.

Azure ETL Python SQL APIs NoSQL Data Warehousing CI CD

Lead Data Engineer

Mac Repair SF

Mar 2018 - Mar 2021 (3 years)

Designed and built scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and cloud data warehouses in Azure to improve analytics performance and operational efficiency, while implementing monitoring and CI/CD to increase deployment reliability.

Azure ETL SQL Python Data Warehousing CI CD Monitoring Data Quality Git

Senior Data Engineer

Wiztec

Nov 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 3 months)

Built and maintained enterprise-scale data pipelines with Python, SQL, Spark, and Databricks, improving data extraction, transformation, and delivery for analytics and production workloads.

Python SQL Apache Spark Databricks ETL Data Modeling CI CD Monitoring

Data Engineer

SoftwareKC

Jan 2014 - Oct 2016 (2 years 9 months)

Assisted in building and maintaining ETL pipelines using Python and SQL, performing data validation, cleansing, reconciliation, and operational monitoring to support enterprise analytics.

Python SQL ETL Data Quality Batch Processing Monitoring Documentation Troubleshooting RDBMS

Data Engineer

Software KC

Jan 2014 - Oct 2016 (2 years 9 months)

Built and maintained ETL pipelines using Python and SQL to support enterprise reporting, performing extraction, transformation, validation, and batch job monitoring to ensure data accuracy and reliability.

Python SQL ETL Data Validation Batch Processing Documentation