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Irfan Hayes

@irfanhayes

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Senior Data Engineer and Cloud Data Architect delivering scalable, secure data platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles building scalable cloud-native data platforms where I can lead engineering teams, drive data governance, and enable analytics/ML with modern data architectures.

I am a results-driven Senior Data Engineer and Cloud Data Architect with over 12 years of experience designing and optimizing large-scale data pipelines and cloud-based architectures. I specialize in distributed systems and big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka), and I lead teams to deliver scalable, secure data solutions that support real-time and batch analytics.

I have deep hands-on expertise in AWS, Azure, and GCP, ETL/ELT development, data modeling (dimensional, star/snowflake, Data Vault), and metadata and data quality management. I have a proven track record implementing data governance and compliance (GDPR, HIPAA), enabling ML and BI integrations, and aligning data architecture with strategic business goals.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead Data Engineer

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Truviz

Mar 2021 - Present (4 years 6 months)

Architected and deployed modern data lakehouse solutions and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Spark, Airflow, and Databricks, improving real-time and batch analytics performance and cost-efficiency.

Apache Spark Airflow Databricks AWS RedShift S3 Glue Python Scala Data Governance

Senior Data Engineer

Vizplum

Aug 2017 - Dec 2020 (3 years 4 months)

Built scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and BI solutions using Spark, SQL and Python and delivered actionable dashboards with Tableau/Power BI to drive data-driven decision making.

Apache Spark SQL Python Tableau Power BI Snowflake Redshift Data Modeling ETL

Big Data Engineer

Hindsait Inc

May 2015 - Jul 2017 (2 years 2 months)

Developed batch and real-time ETL pipelines for large datasets using HDFS, Parquet/ORC, Airflow and cloud big-data services, enabling high-volume analytics workloads.

HDFS Parquet Airflow Python Scala Java Big Data

Data Engineer

Fipsar Inc

Jun 2012 - Apr 2015 (2 years 10 months)

Built real-time Kafka-based pipelines handling 1M+ daily events, optimized PostgreSQL schemas for high-throughput ingestion, and contributed CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments.