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Riz Asher User

@rizasheruser

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Senior data architect and cloud infrastructure leader driving scalable data platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior architect or platform role building secure, scalable cloud data platforms, with strong governance, ML enablement, and mentorship opportunities.

I am a Senior Data Architect and Cloud Infrastructure Lead with over 12 years designing and delivering cloud-native data platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I build scalable lakehouse and real-time architectures using Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, dbt, and orchestration tools to reduce costs and improve analytics performance.

I have driven compliance and governance programs—implementing RBAC, data lineage, and policies to meet HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA requirements—while enabling ML workflows through feature stores, MLOps, and dataset engineering. I lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and champion DataOps and Data Mesh practices to improve delivery and reliability.

My achievements include migrating large ETL estates to lakehouse architectures, building HIPAA-compliant healthcare analytics pipelines, and implementing observability and CI/CD for robust operations. I seek roles where I can architect high-performance, secure data platforms and guide teams to operational excellence.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Staff Data Engineer

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Sifflet

Sep 2021 - Present (4 years 5 months)

Architected and deployed an Azure + Snowflake + Databricks lakehouse, reducing platform costs and dashboard latency while enabling governed self-service analytics and ML feature stores.

Azure Snowflake Databricks DBT Apache Airflow Kafka Spark Data Governance HIPAA CI CD

Lead Data Engineer

Revelio Labs

Oct 2018 - Aug 2021 (2 years 10 months)

Engineered a hybrid Synapse + Hadoop platform and streamlined streaming and ELT pipelines with Flink and dbt, improving latency, observability, and governed analytics for healthcare data.

Azure Synapse Hadoop Apache Flink DBT Monte Carlo Clickhouse Iceberg RBAC Observability

Senior Data Engineer

Ocient

Oct 2016 - Sep 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Built high-performance ELT pipelines with Spark and dbt across cloud warehouses, improving processing speed and enabling real-time synchronization for operational dashboards.

Apache Spark DBT AWS Snowflake BigQuery Kafka Kinesis Data Modeling Airflow Observability

Data Warehouse Engineer

Teradata

Jul 2013 - Sep 2016 (3 years 2 months)

Developed and optimized ETL workflows with Informatica and SSIS, designed star schemas and CI/CD pipelines, and delivered BI dashboards to support enterprise reporting and a cloud migration.