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Hass Butt

@hassbutt

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Principal Data Engineer and Data Architect specializing in scalable cloud data platforms and cost-optimized pipelines.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior technical roles building scalable, secure cloud data platforms where I can lead teams, optimize costs, and deliver AI-driven analytics.

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

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Senior Data Architect

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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.

Apache Spark Kafka AWS Glue Amazon S3 Redshift)Delta Lake DBT Data Governance FinOps Redshift

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.

Pyspark Spark Kafka Kinesis Airflow Great Expectations AWS Lambda Snowflake Docker CI CD

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.

Great Expectations DBT Snowflake Prometheus Python SQL PagerDuty Data Lineage Monitoring

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.