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Fayyaz Farooq

@fayyazfarooq

Lead Data Engineer at Systems Ltd. who migrated Rotork Controls to Microsoft Fabric, cutting infrastructure costs by 65%.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for a remote senior or lead data engineering role, full-time or contract, where I own the data platform and architecture. My strength is Microsoft Fabric and Azure lakehouse design with Python, SQL and PySpark, plus Purview governance. I work across time zones, including US hours, and I'm open to remote roles worldwide or relocation.

At Systems Ltd., I led Rotork Controls Limited’s migration from legacy ETL and Azure Synapse to a Microsoft Fabric lakehouse. The move cut infrastructure costs by 65% and improved data processing efficiency by 60%.

I built real-time IoT pipelines with Azure Event Hubs and Fabric Eventstream, and added monitoring with Azure Monitor and Grafana. I also designed a Microsoft Purview governance and quality framework for data discovery and lineage tracking.

At TFA, I built a generative AI tool that lets marketing users query their data conversationally. I also designed Azure data architecture and put governance policies and access controls in place.

Through PIAIC, I designed and taught AI training programs with hands-on projects for 1000+ students and professionals. I’m a Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700).

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Managing Consultant, Data Engineering

Current

SystemsLtd.

Aug 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Led migration from legacy ETL to Microsoft Fabric lakehouse, improving data processing efficiency by 60% and cutting infrastructure costs by 65%. Built real-time pipelines and implemented monitoring and governance frameworks.

Microsoft Fabric Azure Synapse Azure Data Factory Azure Event Hubs azure monitor Grafana Microsoft Purview Python SQL PySpark ETL Data Pipelines Dataflow Notebooks EventStream Data Governance Data Lineage Data Quality CI CD

Principal Data Engineer

SystemsLtd.

Aug 2024 - Jun 2026 (1 year 10 months)

Cloud Data Engineer

Usoftware.co

Jul 2024 - Jan 2025 (6 months)

Designed and built end-to-end cloud pipelines for large-scale marketing and campaign data, supporting analytics and BI across multiple markets. Developed and maintained media mix models that guided marketing spend allocation and improved campaign ROI.

Cloud Pipelines ETL Marketing Analytics BIツール Media Mix Modeling Data Engineering

Lead Data Engineer / Strategist

TFA

Sep 2023 - May 2024 (8 months)

Designed Azure data architecture and built ETL pipelines with SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Databricks and Azure Functions. Built a generative AI tool for conversational data querying and implemented data governance policies.

Azure SSIS Azure Data Factory Databricks Azure Functions ETL Data Governance Access Control Generative AI Python SQL

Artificial Intelligence Trainer

PIAIC

Apr 2019 - May 2024 (5 years 1 month)

Designed and taught AI training programs with hands-on projects for 1000+ students and professionals.

AI Training Curriculum Design Python Machine Learning

Senior Data Engineer

NISUM

Jul 2021 - Sep 2023 (2 years 2 months)

Designed and orchestrated end-to-end data pipelines and data warehousing solutions, including pipelines for generative AI. Built scalable data architecture for data science and machine learning work, optimized for performance and cost.

Data Pipelines Data Warehouse Generative AI Data Architecture Data Science Machine Learning Azure Data Factory Microsoft Fabric SSIS Databricks Azure Synapse Azure SQL Data Operations Quality Checks Pipeline Monitoring

Cloud Data Engineer

IRiWorldwide

May 2022 - Mar 2023 (10 months)

Designed and built cloud pipelines and ETL processes to ingest marketing, sales and operational data. Owned architecture and design decisions, tuning infrastructure for scalability, performance and cost.

Cloud Pipelines ETL Data Engineering Architecture Scalability Performance Cost Optimization Time Series Data Media Mix Modeling Version Control Code Review

ETL Data Engineer

Afiniti

Jan 2021 - Jul 2021 (6 months)

Built, deployed and monitored ETL pipelines on Azure for clients in Brazil. Ran monthly performance reviews with clients, reconciled data reports with internal teams, and set up data-sharing processes for AI teams.

ETL Azure Data Pipelines Monitoring Data Sharing Client Management SQL

Assistant Manager, Quality (Data & Reporting)

Atlas Honda

Mar 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 9 months)

Performed SQL analysis, created Excel dashboards, and automated quality reporting using Python and SAP.

SQL Excel Python SAP Data Analysis Reporting Automation

Data Engineer

Mach3Bi

Apr 2020 - Sep 2020 (5 months)

Led development of an end-to-end machine learning model for day-trading stock price prediction that reached 85% prediction accuracy, including an LSTM time-series model and NLP sentiment analysis of news data.

Machine Learning LSTM Time Series NLP Sentiment Analysis Python Data Engineering