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Sophia Valhari

@sophiavalhari

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Senior Data Engineer and Cloud Data Architect specializing in lakehouse and streaming systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles building cloud-native data platforms and streaming systems where I can lead architecture, mentor teams, and improve reliability, performance, and compliance.

I am a Senior Data Engineer and Cloud Data Architect with 9+ years building scalable, secure, production-grade data platforms across healthcare, finance, and enterprise SaaS.

I design and operate cloud-native lakehouse architectures (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi) and build large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines using dbt and Spark, as well as real-time streaming systems with Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, and Kinesis to support analytics, ML, and AI-driven pipelines.

I have led cloud migrations, platform modernization, and data mesh adoption in regulated environments, improving reliability, reducing data latency by 50%, cutting runtimes by 45%, and maintaining 99.9% SLA reliability while reducing incidents and costs through observability and governance.

I partner closely with product, analytics, and ML teams, provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship, and implement DevOps, security, and cost-optimization practices to deliver trusted, timely, and compliant data solutions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead Data Engineer

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West Monroe

Sep 2023 - Present (2 years 6 months)

Led architecture and production operations of a multi-cloud enterprise data platform, cutting processing time by 45% and reducing production incidents by 40% while enabling near-real-time analytics and ML workloads.

Databricks Pyspark DBT Kafka Apache Flink Snowflake Delta Lake Terraform Datadog

Senior Data Engineer

Andela

Dec 2020 - Oct 2023 (2 years 10 months)

Engineered production ETL/ELT pipelines and healthcare data models, automating HEDIS/CMS reporting to reduce manual processing by 70% and lowering data defects by 40% for clinical analytics.

Pyspark SQL Azure Data Factory DBT Power BI Great Expectations Delta Lake

BI & Data Integration Engineer

Rangle.io

Jan 2017 - Feb 2020 (3 years 1 month)

Developed and optimized end-to-end ETL pipelines and data warehouse models, automating executive reporting and reducing manual spreadsheet processes by 60%.