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Steve Ali

@steveali

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Results-driven Senior Data Engineer with expertise in data architecture.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for opportunities that allow me to leverage my data engineering skills in innovative projects, foster collaboration, and drive impactful business outcomes.

I am a results-driven Data Engineer with over 10 years of experience in data warehousing, ETL, and data analysis. My expertise lies in developing advanced analytics solutions and leveraging big data insights to deliver impactful business results. I pride myself on my attention to detail, ensuring data integrity in all projects.

Throughout my career, I have designed and implemented end-to-end data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric and have successfully led $5M projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. My key achievements include improving data security for 5000 patient records using Snowflake and enhancing data reporting efficiency by 25% using Microsoft Fabric and Power BI solutions.

I am passionate about utilizing technology to drive innovation and have a proven track record of creating scalable, high-performing solutions that enhance decision-making and collaboration across organizations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Data Engineer

3Cloud

May 2023 - Jan 2025 (1 year 8 months)

Results-driven Data Engineer with over 10 years of experience in data warehousing, ETL, and data analysis. Designed and implemented end-to-end data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric and developed metadata-driven frameworks to enhance data processing.

Data Warehousing ETL Microsoft Fabric Delta Lake Spark Data Analysis Data Security Big Data Cloud Computing

Senior Data Engineer

Slalom

Jan 2022 - May 2023 (1 year 4 months)

Led $5M projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies, improving data security and collaboration by implementing a centralized Snowflake data lake. Developed robust data pipelines to extract over 100 GB of data daily.

Agile Waterfall Snowflake Data Pipelines Azure BigQuery Data Security Project Management Data Analysis Business Intelligence

Senior Consultant

Gaper

Aug 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 5 months)

Led projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies, enhancing data reporting efficiency by 25% using Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. Developed scalable, high-performing solutions and communicated technical details to stakeholders.

Agile Waterfall Microsoft Fabric Power BI Data Reporting Data Engineering Project Management Communication Data Analysis

Senior Data Engineer

Cityblock Health

Sep 2017 - Aug 2019 (1 year 11 months)

Increased data processing efficiency by 45% by constructing an Azure Big Data platform. Developed and maintained end-to-end pipelines in Azure Data Factory and created KPIs to enhance business results.

Azure Big Data Data Factory Data Processing KPIs Data Engineering Data Analysis Cloud Computing Business Intelligence Data Integration

Data Engineer

Cityblock Health

Jul 2016 - Jul 2017 (1 year)

Focused on data engineering within a healthcare context, improving resolution efficiency by analyzing technical support tickets using Power BI and transforming XML files into CSV using Python.

Data Engineering Power BI Data Analysis Python Data Extraction Data Integrity XML CSV Data Warehousing ETL

Data Engineer

Independent Purchasing Cooperative

Sep 2014 - May 2016 (1 year 8 months)

Developed pipelines for data management projects, built multi-threaded data pipelines using Python and PySpark, and supported DataBricks Data Lake infrastructure.

Data Management Python Pyspark Data Pipelines Databricks Data Lake Data Processing ETL Cloud Computing Data Integration

Data Engineer

Dynasty Sports & Entertainment

Sep 2013 - Sep 2014 (1 year)

Designed architecture to consolidate customer data for the Identity Graph project, implemented data privacy measures, and developed a data model in Azure Analysis services.

Data Architecture Data Privacy Azure Data Modeling Data Integration SQL Data Warehouse ETL

Data Engineer

Chubb

May 2012 - Jul 2013 (1 year 2 months)

Managed data management projects for the Philadelphia Macaroni Company, developed curation processes, and built near real-time pipelines using Kafka and Elastic Stack.

Data Management Kafka Data Pipelines Data Curation Azure Data Factory Reporting Business Operations Data Integration ETL

Intern

Sciensus

Jan 2012 - Apr 2012 (3 months)

Focused on software development to improve data services, integrated diverse data sources, and optimized stored procedures for performance.

Software Development Data Integration Requirements Gathering Data Analysis Performance Optimization Cloud Computing ETL

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Harvard University

Master's of Business Administration, Data Engineering

Designed large scalable data lake architecture on AWS. Developed ETL pipelines for data ingestion and transformation. Implemented data security measures using AWS services.