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Robert Lawson

@robertlawson1

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Senior Data Engineer specializing in healthcare data platforms, cloud ETL, and governance.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I am seeking senior roles building secure, cloud-native data platforms in healthcare or enterprise SaaS, where I can lead ETL, governance, and migration efforts while collaborating with product and data science teams.

I am a Senior Data Engineer with over a decade of experience building production-grade data platforms for healthcare and enterprise SaaS products. I design and deliver cloud-native ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, and governance to enable reliable analytics and ML.

My work centers on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer, GCS, Pub/Sub, Dataproc, Dataplex) and orchestration tools like Airflow and Flyte, with strong hands-on experience in Python, Spark, and SQL. I architect secure, HIPAA-compliant solutions including DLP, IAM, and VPC controls for sensitive PHI/PII.

I have integrated complex clinical and operational datasets (HL7 v2.x, FHIR, CCD/C-CDA, DICOM, LIS/RIS/PACS) and IoT/device streams, delivering scalable ingestion that processed up to 1TB/day with under 2% error rates. I also implemented automated data quality checks, reducing silent data issues by 70% and improving analyst query performance by 50%.

I collaborate closely with product, analytics, and security teams to define schemas, data contracts, lineage, and SLAs, and I lead on-prem-to-cloud migrations and infrastructure-as-code deployments using Terraform and Kubernetes to enable reproducible, secure environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Data Engineer

CloudScale

Feb 2022 - May 2025 (3 years 3 months)

Architected and delivered a GCP-native data platform with BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer, and Dataplex; onboarded 15+ clinical and device data feeds and processed up to 1TB/day with <2% error rate while enforcing HIPAA-compliant controls.

BigQuery Dataflow Cloud Composer Pub Sub Dataplex Python Spark Terraform Great Expectations

Data Engineer

TechNova Systems

Nov 2019 - Feb 2022 (2 years 3 months)

Designed and maintained Python/Spark ETL pipelines and migrated workflows to GCP BigQuery and Cloud Composer, achieving ~30% cost reduction and improving analytics delivery.

Python Spark BigQuery Cloud Storage Airflow Cloud Composer GitHub Actions CI CD

Data Engineer

LoneStar Digital Solutions

Aug 2014 - Oct 2019 (5 years 2 months)

Developed ETL frameworks and Spark transformations to harmonize healthcare claims and EHR extracts, deployed containerized pipelines to Kubernetes, and documented lineage to accelerate source onboarding by 60%.

Python Spark Kubernetes Helm Terraform ETL Data Modeling Grafana

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Texas Tech University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2010 - 2014

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science completed at Texas Tech University, focusing on software and systems fundamentals relevant to data engineering.