Wayne User
@wayneuser
Data engineering leader building scalable cloud-native data platforms and governance.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a data engineering leader with 8+ years designing and scaling modern data platforms across AWS and Azure, progressing from Data Engineer to Lead. I focus on data modeling, ETL/ELT, streaming, governance, and analytics to deliver reliable, production-grade pipelines.
At Afiniti I led a team of eight engineers, built a scalable real estate platform handling 1M+ daily requests, implemented Delta Lake and dbt workflows, and enforced GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance. I also managed cloud infrastructure, Airflow orchestration, and automated deployments with Terraform and Jenkins.
Previously I integrated disparate systems into real-time platforms using Kafka, Debezium, PySpark and Delta Lake, and migrated legacy healthcare reporting to modern warehouses to accelerate reporting cadence. I have strong experience enabling ML and LLM workflows by producing high-quality datasets for model training and inference.
I bring hands-on expertise in Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery and streaming technologies, and I prioritize maintainable, version-controlled data workflows, observability, and cross-functional collaboration to drive business value.
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Lead Data Engineer
Afiniti
Nov 2023 - Present (2 years 7 months)
Led a team of 8 engineers to design cloud-native data solutions and governance, built a scalable real estate platform handling 1M+ daily requests, and optimized ETL pipelines with PySpark and Snowflake CDC to improve data quality and reliability.
Senior Data Engineer
Bridge Carbon
May 2021 - Oct 2023 (2 years 5 months)
Integrated seven systems into a unified real-time data platform using Kafka, Debezium, and PySpark, deployed Delta Lake on Databricks to harmonize batch and streaming pipelines, and delivered analytics-ready datasets to Looker and Redshift.
Data Engineer
FloQast
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021 (2 years 1 month)
Led migration of healthcare reporting data from MySQL to Greenplum to reduce reporting cycles from weekly to daily, automated ETL with Talend and PySpark, and built near-real-time ingestion pipelines using Azure Event Hubs and Functions.
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