Hass Butt
@hassbutt
Principal Data Engineer and Data Architect specializing in scalable cloud data platforms and cost-optimized pipelines.
What I'm looking for
I am a results-driven Data Architect and Principal Data Engineer with 12+ years designing and optimizing scalable, high-performance data platforms across cloud environments.
I build and deploy cloud-native data lakes, lakehouses, real-time streaming pipelines, and automated ETL/ELT workflows using modern big data technologies to drive AI-powered analytics and business intelligence.
I lead cross-functional engineering teams, implement infrastructure-as-code, and establish data governance and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2) while mentoring engineers and promoting FinOps practices that cut costs and improve performance.
My achievements include reducing storage costs by 30%, lowering platform spend by over 20%, improving data incident detection by 40%, and delivering metadata-driven architectures for traceability, lineage, and operational reliability.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Data Architect
Census
Jan 2023 - Present (2 years 9 months)
Designed real-time, scalable data pipelines and cost-efficient lakehouse solutions, improving performance and reducing storage costs by 30% while enabling real-time reverse ETL for improved sales and marketing operations.
Senior Data Engineer
Red Hawk Tech
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023 (5 years)
Built fault-tolerant batch and real-time pipelines, refactored legacy ETL to microservices, automated data testing and compliance workflows, and migrated workloads to AWS/Snowflake to optimize performance.
Data Reliability Engineer
Metaplane
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017 (2 years)
Implemented automated data quality and observability checks, reducing data incidents by 40% and delivering end-to-end lineage and SLA enforcement across Snowflake and dbt models.
Data Engineer & Analyst
Pandata LLC
Jan 2013 - Jan 2015 (2 years)
Automated ETL workflows, designed scalable cloud data models and real-time validation systems, and developed dashboards and data marts to support reporting and operational analytics.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
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Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2009 - 2012
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science focused on core computing principles and practical software and data engineering skills.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Azure Synapse
Apache Spark
AWS Glue
Apache Flink
Druid
Talend
Superset
Metabase
Microsoft Azure
Amazon S3
GitHub
Kubernetes
Kubecost
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
Salesforce
PySpark
dbt
Hadoop
Gmail
Databricks
Terraform
Java
TensorFlow
scikit-learn
HubSpot
Kafka
Apache Pulsar
PagerDuty
Grafana
Prometheus
Airflow
Apache Beam
CloudZero
Root Cause
Luigi
SQL
AWS KMS
Clickhouse
Dagster
PostHog
Monte Carlo
DataHub
Delta Lake
Great Expectations
Finout
Trino
Lightdash
Amundsen
Metaplane
dbt Cloud
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