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Zulfiqar Ali

@zulfiqarali7

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Senior Data Engineer leading cloud-native lakehouse and streaming platforms for healthcare and fintech analytics.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build governed cloud data platforms and near real-time streaming pipelines—especially in regulated healthcare environments—where I can lead architecture, mentor engineers, and translate complex data requirements into reliable, cost-efficient systems.

I lead enterprise healthcare data platform architecture at Gravie Health, building governed analytics across EHR, EMR, claims, provider, and eligibility datasets.

I’ve designed fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) and payment integrity data pipelines, then wired in near real-time streaming with Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming to cut latency from hours to minutes.

On the platform side, I standardize datasets with Delta Lake, Medallion Architecture, and Unity Catalog—tuning Databricks and Snowflake workloads, and implementing RBAC, metadata management, data quality validation, and HIPAA-aligned controls.

Previously at Blue Orange, I architected AWS/Azure cloud-native data platforms, built incremental ingestion with CDC patterns, and improved Spark and Snowflake pipeline performance through clustering, partitioning, and workload tuning.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Data Engineer Lead

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Gravie Health

Dec 2023 - Present (2 years 8 months)

Lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise healthcare data platforms supporting clinical, operational and population health analytics across EHR, EMR, claims, provider and eligibility datasets.

Databricks Snowflake Delta Lake Apache Spark HL7 FHIR X12 Unity Catalog RBAC HIPAA GDPR Microsoft Fabric CDC

Senior Data Engineer

Blue Orange

Apr 2019 - Nov 2023 (4 years 7 months)

Architected and delivered scalable cloud-native data platforms across fintech using AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake and Apache Spark.

AWS Azure Databricks Snowflake Apache Spark PySpark Kafka Airflow Redshift Delta Lake HIPAA GDPR

Data Engineer — ETL Developer

Softweb Solutions

Nov 2016 - Mar 2019 (2 years 4 months)

Designed and developed scalable ETL pipelines using SSIS, Talend, Python and SQL to integrate structured and semi-structured data from ERP, CRM, APIs and SaaS platforms into enterprise reporting systems.