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yasir Ch

@yasirch

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Senior Data Architect and Engineer driving scalable cloud data platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a cloud-first data platform role where I can lead architecture, improve data reliability, enforce governance, optimize costs, and mentor teams to deliver secure, scalable analytics and ML-ready pipelines.

I am a Senior Data Architect and Data Engineer with 12+ years designing, building, and optimizing scalable, high-performance data platforms for cloud and big-data environments. I focus on cost-efficient datalake and lakehouse architectures, real-time ingestion, and production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines that power AI/ML and analytics.

I have led cloud-first engineering teams across AWS, Azure, and GCP, implemented company-wide data governance and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2), and delivered measurable cost and performance improvements—reducing storage costs by 30% and platform spend by over 20% in recent engagements.

I prioritize data reliability, observability, and automation: building metadata-driven architectures with dbt, OpenLineage, and Amundsen, deploying observability and FinOps practices, and mentoring cross-functional teams to produce secure, auditable, and production-ready data solutions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Architect

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Census

Jan 2023 - Present (2 years 10 months)

Designed real-time, scalable data pipelines and cost-efficient datalake/lakehouse architectures, reducing storage costs by 30% and enabling real-time reverse ETL to Salesforce and HubSpot to improve sales/marketing operations.

Apache Spark Kafka AWS Glue Amazon S3 Redshift Delta Lake DBT Data Governance

Senior Data Engineer

Red Hawk Tech

Jan 2018 - Jan 2023 (5 years)

Built fault-tolerant batch and real-time pipelines, containerized legacy ETL into microservices, and implemented automated data testing and ML batch inference pipelines to improve reliability and monitoring.

Pyspark Spark Kafka Kinesis Docker Apache Airflow Great Expectations AWS Sagemaker Snowflake

Data Reliability Engineer

Metaplane

Jan 2015 - Jan 2017 (2 years)

Implemented automated data quality and observability tooling with Great Expectations and custom metrics, integrated lineage and schema-drift alerts, and reduced production data incidents through monitoring and SLAs.

Great Expectations DBT Prometheus Python SQL PagerDuty Observability

Data Engineer & Data Analyst

Pandata LLC

Jan 2013 - Jan 2015 (2 years)

Automated ETL workflows, designed scalable cloud data models and datamarts, built real-time validation and operational dashboards to support business reporting and reduce data issues.