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George iqbal User

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Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud-native data platforms and governance.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role building and scaling cloud-native data platforms with strong DataOps, governance, and mentorship opportunities in regulated or enterprise environments.

I am a Senior Data Engineer with 8+ years designing scalable cloud-native data platforms, enterprise data warehouses, and real-time streaming architectures focused on analytics-ready solutions.

I build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, Apache Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Snowflake, and AWS services, and I implement medallion/lakehouse patterns to deliver reliable, governed datasets for BI and ML.

I have hands-on experience in healthcare and regulated environments (HIPAA-aligned), implementing data governance, PII masking, lineage, and secure access controls while mentoring teams and modernizing legacy systems.

I prioritize DataOps automation, cost-optimized cloud infrastructure, observability, and performance tuning to produce production-ready platforms that support reporting, analytics, and machine learning.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Engineer

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Arctic Wolf

Sep 2022 - Present (3 years 9 months)

Led design and development of cloud-based data platforms across AWS and Azure for healthcare, financial, and enterprise clients; built scalable Databricks/Spark pipelines and implemented data governance and HIPAA-aligned secure access controls.

Databricks Spark AWS Azure Data Governance SQL Airflow HIPAA compliance

Data Platform Engineer

Nexla

Jul 2019 - Aug 2022 (3 years 1 month)

Designed and maintained an AWS cloud-native data platform enabling self-service pipelines; authored Terraform IaC, containerized Spark services, and standardized orchestration with Airflow/dbt while improving observability and security controls.

Terraform AWS EMR Docker Kubernetes Airflow DBT Cloudwatch Spark

Data Integration Engineer

ACC3

Mar 2017 - Jun 2019 (2 years 3 months)

Architected cloud-native ELT pipelines on AWS and built real-time Kafka flows and Snowflake/dbt transformations (medallion architecture) to deliver governed, analytics-ready datasets and reverse-ETL activations.

AWS Kafka Snowflake DBT ELT Airflow CI CD Data Modeling