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Marina Shehzad

@marinashehzad

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Senior data engineer building scalable, secure cloud-native data platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior engineering or architect role building secure, scalable cloud-native data platforms with strong observability, automated testing, and cross-functional collaboration for ML and analytics.

I am a Senior Data Engineer and architect with 10+ years designing cloud-native data platforms, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, real-time streaming systems, and ML-ready data ecosystems across FinTech, Healthcare, SaaS, and Autonomous Systems. I build metadata-driven, secure-by-design lakehouse architectures and reusable infrastructure modules that improve performance, governance, and cost efficiency.

I have led cloud modernization and regulatory compliance initiatives, reduced infrastructure and compute costs, and delivered production-ready streaming and batch pipelines using tools like Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow, dbt, and Terraform. I prioritize reliability, observability, reproducibility, and automated testing to enable fast, safe delivery for cross-functional teams including ML, DevOps, product, and compliance.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Principal Distributed Data Systems Engineer

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DataNova Financial Systems

Mar 2023 - Present (2 years 11 months)

Architected large-scale distributed data systems for fraud analytics and real-time scoring, reducing recovery time by 50% and infrastructure overhead by 35% via cloud modernization and reusable IaC modules.

AWS Glue Kafka Redshift Terraform OpenTelemetry Kubernetes Lambda Athena

Senior Data Platform Architect

MediCore Analytics

Aug 2021 - Feb 2023 (1 year 6 months)

Designed a cloud-native lakehouse for healthcare (FHIR/HL7) with metadata-driven governance and ML-ready feature stores, cutting warehouse compute costs by 30% and improving PHI controls.

Delta Lake Snowflake Airflow Spark DataHub Terraform DBT

Real-Time Data Systems Engineer

AutoVision Systems

Jan 2019 - Jul 2021 (2 years 6 months)

Engineered real-time telemetry pipelines for autonomous vehicles using Apache Beam and Dataflow, improving BigQuery costs/performance by 35% and enabling high-quality ML inputs with anomaly detection.

Apache Beam Dataflow Pub Sub BigQuery MLFlow Kubeflow Python

Data Integration Engineer

BrightMetrics Software

Nov 2015 - Dec 2018 (3 years 1 month)

Built and maintained ELT pipelines and REST ingestion services using Python, Airflow, and AWS Glue, optimizing Redshift performance and delivering curated data marts for BI teams.