Victor Smith

I am a Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience designing and scaling governed, HIPAA-compliant data infrastructures for pharmaceutical, healthcare, and enterprise environments. I architect and deliver lakehouse and data fabric solutions that enable AI/ML, analytics, and manufacturing intelligence at global scale.

At my current role I architected Eli Lilly’s Global Manufacturing Data Fabric on Databricks, implemented a medallion architecture, delivered real-time ingestion pipelines with Auto Loader/Delta Lake/PySpark, and established an Azure-based lakehouse that reduced cross-site onboarding time by 40%.

I also built a federated AI platform enabling partner access to Lilly-trained models without raw data exchange, implemented Unity Catalog governance and lineage, optimized enterprise Snowflake warehouses, instituted CI/CD for pipelines, and productionized ML workflows with MLflow—consistently improving reliability, compliance, and time-to-value.