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Mesa, Az, Us

Mesa, Az, Us

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Designed a robust three-tier data architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) and governed scalable data lakes in S3 using Iceberg tables on Snowflake, enhancing query performance by 30x and offering developers best practices through open-source demos and code samples.• Built and maintained real-time data streaming pipelines on Snowflake, leveraging tools like Snowpipe, Snowpark, and AWS Glue, to integrate semi-structured data from Kafka and other sources with minimal latency, supporting developer communities with hands-on resources and tutorials.• Designed and governed a scalable data lake in S3 with Iceberg tables in Snowflake, improving user query performance by 30x.• Spearheaded CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) pipelines across AWS and Snowflake using Terraform, Bitbucket, GitHub, and Resourcely, empowering developers with efficient, automated deployment processes through comprehensive how-to guides and documentation.• Actively engaged cross-functional teams including product engineering, product management, and customer success to align data workflows with developer needs, providing feedback on feature enhancements to drive product innovation.• Ensured compliance with data security standards, particularly around HIPAA-compliant data governance, while educating developers on secure practices via documentation and community engagement.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

• Led a team of 3, and frequently collaborated with project managers, stakeholders, and analysts. Established a combination of scrum and Kanban to deliver projects in an agile framework. Leveraged Jira, GitHub, Confluence, and ServiceNow for planning, tracking, task rotation, code review and code release. • Designed and built a data model and orchestrated end-to-end pipeline with data anomaly detection to process semi-structured data from a variety of data sources, flowing 10% of revenue into the company’s revenue recognition engine utilizing SSIS, AWS Glue and Python, achieving efficient acquisition onboarding and facilitating company’s growth (onboarded 8 acquisitions in 2 years).• Architected and developed a data platform to process terabytes of semi-structured data per day from revenue recognition engine into data warehouses in Redshift, SQL Server and Snowflake using Snowpipe, AWS Glue, Lambda and SSIS which saved 2 head-counts for the month-end process and enabled finance team to run analysis and actionable reports.• Built a data warehouse in Teradata for tax data and Integrated various e-commerce systems using APIs by leveraging Informatica and SSIS, BTEQ. This has saved 20 man-power hrs/month.• Implemented CICD using Jenkins, eliminating the process of reviewing SOX reports and saving 20 hours of manual effort per month.• Improved the response time to production issues by 50% by building a tool for monitoring data pipelines using Slack APIs.• Spearheaded new hires to speed and learn existing processes and collaborated with project managers, business, and developers to strategies a clear path based on the requirements.• Directed a team of 2 to create ELT processes for GoDaddy domain registry generating close to 4-billion-dollar revenue/year and enabled finance team to run analytical reports and designed reports and dashboards using SSRS and Tableau.

San Diego, California, United States

• Designed a HIPAA-compliant pipeline to process semi-structured data from AWS data lake using AWS Glue, Spark, Python and Saved 300 man-power hrs./month.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Designed an innovative ETL process which saved the company 2.5 million dollars annually on Oracle’s Golden Gate licensing.• Automated the process system health check after each patching cycle, which saved 468 man-power hrs./year.• Led a group of 10 including SQL DBAs, BI developers, and software developers by providing guidelines, standards, trainings, solutions, code reviews.• Managed and maintained 100 SQL servers including installations and server upgrades, migration from bare metal servers to VMWare while maintaining the performance, implementing high availability and disaster recovery. Used SentryOne and SolarWinds for performance tuning, query optimization, and resource planning. Also, created dashboards to show live status of server’s availability and load.• Saved 20% of DBA’s time by developing a rich PowerShell library to ease daily tasks.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Managed 35 SQL Servers and 230 productions databases. Responsible for optimizing the server for best performance and managing resources, implementing solid backup plan using Commvault, setup security and audit to protected data, query optimization, upgrades and server patching, resource forecasting, implementing automated monitoring systems for SQL servers and processes running on the server.• Developed several ETL processes to enable business running complex reports from raw data and helped over 3000 residents/day.

Iran, Tehran

• Led team of 7 developers to deliver projects in an agile environment by resource planning, budgeting, mentoring, providing standards and guidelines.• Managed 15 SQL Servers. Responsible for optimizing the server for best performance and managing resources, setup backup solution using System Center (DPA), implementing high available solutions, optimizing the server for best performance, and managing resources.• Designed a data warehouse to integrate 20 years of financial information coming from various sources and designed the finance DataMart and created complicated reports to enable top management making executive decisions.

Venezuela, Caracas

Iran, Tehran

Master'S Degree, System Analyst

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Engineering