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Senior Data Engineer at Golding Capital Partners, building a Databricks data platform for investor and fund analytics.

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At Golding Capital Partners, I’m working on migrating legacy systems into Databricks and consolidating data sources into a single platform. I’m helping build a Medallion Architecture and CRM-to-Databricks pipelines for investor and fund data.

At KI performance, I worked on a Synapse-to-Delta Lake migration that reduced monthly compute costs from around €10,000 to around €500. I built Databricks ETL workflows and introduced Unity Catalog and Delta Sharing for governance and secure data exchange.

I also worked on streaming and batch pipelines, and helped move the team from notebook workflows to a compiled project approach. I mentored two junior engineers directly and supported the move to a Medallion Architecture.

Earlier, I worked on Spark-based ETL and analytics projects at Altran and Singularities, including airline booking KPIs and a supply chain optimization engine. I hold the Databricks Data Engineer Associate certification.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Engineer

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Golding Capital Partners

Oct 2025 - Present (1 year)

Working on migration of legacy systems into Databricks and building the firm's data platform using Medallion Architecture. Building CRM-to-Databricks pipelines and supporting the reporting suite with accurate data.

Databricks Delta Lake Medallion Architecture Data Pipelines Data Modeling CRM

Senior Data Engineer

KI performance

Oct 2020 - Sep 2025 (4 years 11 months)

Worked on end-to-end data pipelines integrating multiple sources, including Kafka, and migrated from Azure Synapse to Delta Lake, reducing compute costs by 95%. Built ETL workflows in Databricks and introduced Unity Catalog and Delta Sharing for governance.

Databricks Delta Lake Unity Catalog Delta Tracking Apache Spark Azure Synapse Kafka Terraform CI CD ETL Data Governance

Data Engineer Consultant

Altran

Feb 2020 - Oct 2020 (8 months)

Worked with Amadeus on a data analytics application for airline booking KPIs. Designed, developed, and tested ETL processing in Spark, consumed Kafka Producers, and integrated results into BI tools like Qlik.

Scala Spark Oozie Qlik Jenkins ETL Kafka

Software Developer

Singularities

Jul 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 6 months)

Developed and implemented a distributed Supply Chain Optimization engine for P&G, reducing transportation expenses by up to 30%. Designed and tested ETL processing in Spark and integrated results into Tableau.

Scala Spark Linear programming Forecasting R Tableau GCP ETL BDD

Java Developer / Software Developer

GFT Group & Experian

Jul 2015 - Jul 2018 (3 years)

Maintained and developed a proprietary data-processing framework and distributed messaging system for real-time financial data at GFT Group. Delivered data transformation and product services at Experian's healthcare data division.

Java Pl SQL JVM Spring Boot Microservices SQL