Umer Sheikh
@umersheikh
Senior data engineer building scalable ETL, streaming, and cloud analytics platforms.
What I'm looking for
I am a senior data engineer with five years of experience designing and delivering scalable data pipelines, real-time streaming systems, and cloud-based analytics platforms. I specialize in building production-ready ETL/ELT workflows and enabling analytics and ML teams with high-quality datasets.
My recent work includes designing event-driven workflows and real-time ingestion frameworks using Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and AWS services. I focus on reliability, observability, and cost optimization through monitoring, partitioning, and efficient data modeling.
I have implemented cloud-native pipelines across AWS, GCP, and Azure, worked with Snowflake, Delta Lake, and BigQuery, and supported ML feature engineering and MLOps practices. I automate data validation and monitoring to maintain pipeline stability and data quality.
I bring strong hands-on experience with distributed processing, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling, and I am committed to building robust data platforms that scale and reduce operational costs.
Experience
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Real-Time Data Engineer
BMC
Mar 2023 - Present (3 years)
Built scalable data pipelines using Spark, Kafka, and AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift); developed real-time ingestion frameworks and event-driven Airflow workflows, improving pipeline reliability with Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and automated alerting.
Streaming Data Engineer
3Cloud
Aug 2021 - Feb 2023 (1 year 6 months)
Developed cloud-based pipelines with Python, Spark, and Airflow; built ELT workflows using Snowflake and Delta Lake, implemented automated data validation and monitoring, and prepared feature datasets for ML, reducing warehouse costs via query optimization.
Distributed Systems Engineer
Cruise
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021 (1 year 1 month)
Built ingestion pipelines for SaaS analytics using Python and SQL, integrated API and event data into centralized warehouses, maintained ETL workflows to improve stability, and produced curated datasets and dashboards for BI teams.
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