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Farooq User

@farooquser

Principal Data Engineer | Lead Data Engineer | Senior Data Engineer

United States
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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.

Senior Data Solution Architect and Principal Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale cloud-native data platforms, real-time analytics solutions, and AI-ready data ecosystems. Deep expertise in modern data architectures including Lakehouse, Delta Lake, Medallion Architecture, and event-driven streaming systems, leveraging Databricks, Snowflake, Apache spark, dbt, and Kafka across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven ability to design highly scalable data pipelines processing billions of records daily, optimize analytical workloads reducing query times by up to 70%, and enable production-grade machine learning platforms. Strong background in data governance, HIPAA and GDPR compliance, and leading cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-impact solutions aligned with business strategy.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

SC
Current

Principal Data Engineer

Stanford Health Care

Apr 2021 - Present (5 years)

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.

MA

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.

MS

Data Engineering Lead

Mac Repair SF

Mar 2018 - Mar 2021 (3 years)

Designed a cloud-native Snowflake data warehouse integrating AWS and Azure, consolidating data from 25+ heterogeneous sources and building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines processing 10+ TB/day. Implemented real-time Kafka/Kinesis streaming, improved reporting performance 55%, reduced monthly cloud costs by $45K, and cut production incidents 70% through DataOps CI/CD and automated testing.

MS

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.

WI

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.

SK

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.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

UI

Unknown Institution

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science completed; focused on foundational computer science and software engineering principles.

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United States

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