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Venkat Samir

@venkatsamir

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Senior Data Engineer specializing in Big Data, Azure, and Scala.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior data engineering role building scalable, secure cloud data platforms (Azure/AWS) with CI/CD, real-time streaming, and opportunities to optimize performance and mentor engineers.

I am a Senior Data Engineer with over six years of experience designing, developing, and optimizing large-scale data pipelines and distributed systems using Hadoop, Spark, Scala, Python, and cloud platforms like Azure and AWS.

I have delivered end-to-end data solutions across healthcare, automotive, and financial domains — building Azure-based data lakes, Databricks pipelines, real-time Kafka streaming, and ML-enabled processing while ensuring security and regulatory compliance such as HIPAA and GDPR.

I focus on performance tuning, CI/CD automation, and production-grade architecture, and I bring hands-on experience with tooling including Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Spark MLlib, Akka, Solr, Splunk, and Microsoft Fabric to drive reliable, scalable analytics and operational systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Sr. Data Engineer

Current

Amaris Consulting

Mar 2024 - Present (2 years)

Built a centralized Azure data lake and end-to-end data pipelines using Databricks, Synapse, ADF and Functions to enable FHIR/HL7 integrations and improve analytics; implemented CI/CD, data security (HIPAA/GDPR) and optimized Scala/Akka data processing for production workloads.

Data Lake Databricks Azure Data Factory Scala Spark Akka CI CD HL7 FHIR Azure Synapse

Data Engineer

Toyota Motors

Sep 2022 - Feb 2024 (1 year 5 months)

Designed and maintained Big Data pipelines on Hadoop and Azure, implemented real-time Spark streaming from Kafka, and built ETL/ADF/Databricks solutions and data warehouses to support analytics and fraud detection use cases.

Hadoop Spark Kafka Azure Data Factory Databricks Sqoop Scala Oozie Azure Synapse

Data Analyst

Cognizant

Aug 2020 - Sep 2022 (2 years 1 month)

Developed ML models and streaming solutions using PySpark, Kafka and Talend, migrated data across RDBMS and Hadoop via Sqoop, and automated cloud deployments and monitoring on AWS EMR and S3.

Pyspark Kafka Sqoop S3 MLlib Python Tableau