Harrison Ray
@harrisonray
Lead Data Engineer delivering scalable, compliant, cost-efficient data platforms.
What I'm looking for
I am a Lead Data Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing and optimizing large-scale data platforms across cloud and on-prem environments, focused on reducing latency, cutting costs, and enabling real-time analytics. I have led engineering teams, implemented governance and HIPAA-compliant monitoring, and delivered secure, scalable solutions using Python, SQL, Databricks, Azure, and BigQuery.
My work includes architecting ELT pipelines processing 15+ TB daily, standardizing data models across Synapse and multi-cloud platforms, building CI/CD for Databricks and Fabric, and improving query performance and release cycles substantially. I am passionate about mentoring engineers, driving measurable business value, and building high-performance data systems for enterprise clients.
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Lead Data Engineer
Sphere Studio
Jan 2020 - Present (5 years 8 months)
Architected ELT pipelines and directed an 8-engineer team to process 15+ TB daily, cutting data latency by 40% and cloud spend by 25% while enabling real-time analytics for enterprise clients.
Data Engineer
Timmerman Industries
Jan 2012 - Jan 2015 (3 years)
Built high-throughput Spark, Kafka, and AWS Glue pipelines processing 2M+ records/hour, integrated HL7/FHIR for HIPAA-compliant healthcare analytics, and reduced ETL runtime from 8h to 5h.
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