Riz Asher User
@rizasheruser
Senior data architect and cloud infrastructure leader driving scalable data platforms.
What I'm looking for
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
Staff Data Engineer
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.
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.
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.
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.
Education
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Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Postman
Airbyte
Fivetran
Azure Synapse
Apache Spark
Apache Flink
Superset
Metabase
GitHub
Kubernetes
Jenkins
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
PySpark
Dask
dbt
DB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Cassandra
Hadoop
Gmail
Databricks
Terraform
Java
TensorFlow
PyTorch
MLflow
scikit-learn
Kubeflow
Kafka
Apache NiFi
GraphQL
Redpanda
pytest
Airflow
Azure Analysis Services
Time Analytics
s3-lambda
SQL
Sisense
Clickhouse
Dagster
Apache Iceberg
LangChain
DuckDB
LlamaIndex
MotherDuck
Hightouch
Monte Carlo
DataHub
Delta Lake
Great Expectations
OpenMetadata
ArgoCD
Trino
Apache Hudi
Collibra
dbt Cloud
Enhance
Sifflet
Make
Microsoft Fabric
Factory
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