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James Zondo

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Data Engineer at AWS designing big-data pipelines with PySpark, AWS Glue, Apache Airflow, and EMR.

South Africa
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At Amazon Web Services, I support enterprise clients with ETL pipelines and cloud data services, resolving complex big-data workloads.

I design and optimize data pipelines and ETL workflows using T-SQL and PySpark on AWS Glue, Apache Airflow, and EMR. I also architect cloud data-engineering solutions for big-data use cases.

At PMsquare, I developed and maintained BI solutions with Cognos, Power BI, Incorta, and Excel. I automated reporting with AWS Grafana, reducing manual monitoring by 60%.

At Sappi, I developed and deployed RPA automation solutions that reduced manual IT tasks by 40%, and led data-analysis initiatives that reduced IT asset-tracking discrepancies by 35%. I'm focused on scalable lakehouse architectures, data modeling, and AI-ready data platforms.

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Mecer Inter-Ed

Cloud Certification Learnership, Cloud

Cloud Certification Learnership from Mecer Inter-Ed, completed in February 2023.

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Rosebank College (IIE)

Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology & Business Systems

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology & Business Systems from Rosebank College (IIE), completed in December 2022.

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