Saify K User
@saifykuser
Senior Data Engineer and Cloud Architect specializing in large-scale streaming and ETL/ELT systems.
What I'm looking for
I am a Senior Data Engineer and Data Architect with 9+ years building large-scale data ecosystems across finance, retail, and tech domains. I specialize in ETL/ELT design, data modeling, warehousing, real-time streaming, and big data pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Databricks, and Snowflake.
I've architected cloud-native solutions on AWS, Azure, and GCP, integrating Airflow, dbt, Terraform, and Kubernetes to automate and scale data platforms. I led migrations of legacy platforms to cloud, cutting costs by up to 40% while improving reliability and performance.
In hands-on roles I built streaming pipelines that reduced latency from 15s to under 3s, managed pipelines processing 100+ TB/day, and enabled real-time analytics for 1000+ users. I also deliver ML-ready feature stores and operationalize ML pipelines to empower data science and analytics teams.
I lead cross-functional data teams (5–10 engineers), drive data governance, security, and observability best practices, and focus on creating trusted data products and dashboards that inform executives, analysts, and engineers.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Lead Data Engineer
Etleap
Aug 2022 - Present (3 years 1 month)
Architected and managed an enterprise-scale AWS lakehouse processing 100+ TB/day, improving query performance 45% and enabling real-time analytics for 1,000+ users; migrated legacy ETL to dbt+Airflow, cutting infra costs 30% and increasing pipeline reliability 60%.
Senior Data Engineer
RTS Labs
Nov 2018 - Jul 2022 (3 years 8 months)
Architected scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and lakehouse/warehouse solutions (Snowflake, Redshift, Synapse) for healthcare data, reducing streaming latency 50% and ensuring HIPAA-compliant data governance and observability.
Data Engineer
CareRev
Mar 2016 - Nov 2018 (2 years 8 months)
Developed ETL/ELT pipelines with SQL Server and Python and designed optimized data models that improved query performance 10x; automated data quality checks reducing manual errors 70% to accelerate reporting and decision-making.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Arts, Information Systems
Bachelor of Arts in Information Systems from New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
etleap
Azure Synapse
AWS Glue
Druid
GitHub
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
PySpark
dbt
Hadoop
Gmail
Databricks
Terraform
Azure DevOps
Java
TensorFlow
PyTorch
MLflow
scikit-learn
Kafka
FastAPI
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
GraphQL
gRPC
KSQL
Airflow
Time Analytics
s3-lambda
Luigi
SQL
Mode Analytics
Monte Carlo
Delta Lake
Great Expectations
Apache Pinot
LakeFS
Collibra
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
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