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Shaffi Shahid

@shaffishahid

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Senior Data Engineer and Architect delivering scalable data platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior-level data engineering or architecture roles where I can design scalable, secure cloud data platforms, lead migrations, improve data quality and observability, mentor teams, and enable analytics/ML in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment.

I am a Senior Data Engineer and Data Architect with over 10 years of experience building and optimizing large-scale data pipelines and infrastructures across finance, healthcare, logistics, and SaaS.

I specialize in ETL/ELT design, data lake and warehouse architectures, automation, and data governance, and I have led large cloud migrations and real-time streaming implementations that improved performance and reliability.

I have hands-on expertise with AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, Kafka, dbt, Airflow and related orchestration, monitoring, and CI/CD tooling, and I mentor engineers on cloud-native practices.

I am passionate about delivering secure, cost-effective, production-ready data systems that enable analytics and machine learning, and I focus on observability, data quality, and cross-functional collaboration to drive business value.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Engineer

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GlidePath Logistics, LLC

Apr 2021 - Present (4 years 5 months)

Spearheaded migration of 120+ legacy ETL pipelines to an AWS-based stack, reducing processing times and increasing reliability; built event-driven Kafka + Spark Streaming pipelines and a governed S3 data lake to support analytics and ML integration.

Python AWS Glue Snowflake Kafka Spark DBT Terraform Airflow

Data Engineer III

HealthMotion Analytics

Feb 2017 - Mar 2021 (4 years 1 month)

Engineered high-volume ETL pipelines and a HIPAA-compliant Azure Synapse data warehouse, delivered daily ML-ready feature stores, and implemented monitoring and DR to ensure availability and security of healthcare data.

Apache NiFi Spark Azure Synapse Scala ELK Stack Kafka Airflow SQL Server

Data Engineer II

FinEdge Technologies

Jan 2014 - Jan 2017 (3 years)

Designed and maintained ETL pipelines for financial transaction and customer data, implemented dimensional models for regulatory reporting and fraud analytics, and migrated batch jobs to Airflow to improve visibility and maintainability.

Informatica SSIS Airflow T SQL SQL Server Data Warehousing Tableau ETL

Junior Data Engineer

BrightTrack Solutions

Jul 2012 - Dec 2013 (1 year 5 months)

Supported development and maintenance of ETL pipelines for B2B SaaS telemetry, performed data validation and cleansing, and automated daily imports and reports to improve data accessibility and reporting speed.