Ryan Ahmad
@ryanahmad2
Principal Data Engineer and Cloud Data Platform Architect driving real-time, secure, cost-efficient data ecosystems.
What I'm looking for
I am a Principal Data Engineer and Cloud Data Platform Architect with 10+ years designing and delivering large-scale, cloud-native data ecosystems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I specialize in building streaming platforms, lakehouse architectures, and enterprise ETL/ELT frameworks that support analytics, AI, and regulatory workloads.
At Truveta I architected a real-time healthcare data platform ingesting HL7/FHIR, EMR/EHR, and IoT telemetry at billions of events per day, delivered a Databricks Lakehouse, and enforced HIPAA-compliant security and governance. My work enabled near-real-time clinical analytics and improved proactive interventions by 22% while achieving 99.8% data accuracy.
Previously at Alteryx and o9 Solutions I led multi-cloud data modernization, high-throughput streaming ingestion, and cost-optimization efforts, processing tens of billions of events and reducing infrastructure costs by up to 40%. I instituted ELT standards (dbt + Airflow), observability, and performance tuning to deliver reliable, high-performance analytics platforms.
I am known for mentoring teams, advising executives on data strategy and cloud governance, and translating business objectives into scalable, secure solutions for healthcare, finance, SaaS, and IoT domains. I seek roles where I can lead platform engineering, data modernization, and analytics enablement at enterprise scale.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Principal Data Engineer
Truveta
Sep 2021 - Present (4 years 5 months)
Architected and owned a real-time healthcare data platform ingesting HL7/FHIR and IoT telemetry, processing billions of events daily and delivering predictive analytics that improved proactive clinical interventions by 22%.
Lead Data Engineer
Alteryx
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021 (2 years 5 months)
Designed multi-cloud data architectures and high-throughput streaming ingestion processing 20B+ daily events with 99.9% pipeline uptime, and optimized cloud workloads to reduce costs by 40%.
Big Data Engineer
o9 Solutions
Oct 2016 - Jul 2019 (2 years 9 months)
Built cloud-native lakehouse and batch/streaming pipelines consolidating data from 25+ systems, improving demand forecasting accuracy by 35% and reducing inventory issues by 28%.
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Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Matillion
Azure Synapse
Apache Spark
AWS Glue
Apache Flink
Talend
GitHub
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
dbt
DB
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Cassandra
Gmail
Databricks
Terraform
Pulumi
Java
MLflow
Kafka
Apache NiFi
Grafana
Prometheus
Datadog
Kafka Streams
Airflow
Apache Beam
Time Analytics
SQL
Alteryx Designer
Monte Carlo
Soda
Delta Lake
Great Expectations
ArgoCD
Terragrunt
Amundsen
Evidence
Collibra
Cosmos
Bash
OpenLineage
Factory
Beam
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