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Rene Puentes

@renepuentes2

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Senior/Lead Data Platform Engineer specializing in lakehouse architectures and regulated data systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior/lead platform roles building governed, secure lakehouse platforms for regulated industries, emphasizing data quality, observability, and AI/ML readiness.

I am a Senior/Lead Data Platform Engineer with 10+ years designing, building, and operating enterprise lakehouse platforms across Azure, AWS, and GCP for FinTech, Healthcare, and other regulated industries. I deliver production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines, real-time streaming systems, and governed analytics platforms using Databricks, Apache Spark, PySpark, Delta Lake, and orchestration tools to enable BI, risk reporting, compliance, and AI/ML-ready data products.

I have led migrations, implemented data quality and observability frameworks, and architected secure ingestion patterns (including HL7/FHIR and PII handling) while optimizing performance and cloud cost. I drive metadata management, lineage, and governance to enable self-service analytics and operationalize data products with CI/CD, Terraform, containerization, and monitoring integrations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead Data Engineer

Current

Infosys

Mar 2021 - Present (5 years 3 months)

Led enterprise lakehouse architecture on Databricks and Apache Spark across Azure, AWS, and GCP, delivering governed ETL/ELT and streaming pipelines that enabled analytics, BI, and AI/ML-ready data products in regulated environments.

Databricks Pyspark Delta Lake Apache Spark Azure Data Factory Apache Airflow Kafka Data Lineage Data Governance

Senior Data Engineer

SoftServe

Jun 2018 - Feb 2021 (2 years 8 months)

Led migration of 200+ legacy ETL workflows to Databricks and Apache Beam, improving pipeline performance over 3× and delivering scalable batch and incremental PySpark pipelines for analytics and ML.

Databricks Apache Beam Pyspark SQL Snowflake Apache Airflow ETL Data Modeling Governance CI CD

Data Engineer

ScienceSoft

Jan 2016 - May 2018 (2 years 4 months)

Designed and built cloud data lakes and warehouses using AWS S3, Glue, Snowflake, and Redshift and developed high-throughput ingestion and transformation pipelines with Spark, Kafka, and Kinesis for analytics initiatives.