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I am a data, cloud infrastructure & analytics engineer with years of combined data engineering and data analytics experience. My core expertise is in data engineering, cloud infrastructure engineering & analytics. My interest also span Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence technologies and web APIs. I've spent years helping businesses adopt a data-driven culture, build data platforms & tools, build data warehouses, build performant data pipelines & optimized data infrastructure to power their AI/ML & analytics initiative.This has not only helped them make sense of their data but also drive innovation and gain competitive advantage.Skills & Tools:Database/Data warehouse design & architecting:Experience in architecting/designing optimized data models & schema for SQL databases (PostgreSql, Mysql) & cloud data warehouses (Amazon Redshift & Google BigQuery). This includes data storage & management on cloud data lake (Amazon S3 & Google Cloud Storage).Building ETL/ELT Data pipelines:Experience in designing data architecture and building simple to complex ETL/ ELT data pipelines using Python, Apache Spark, SQL, DBT, Apache Airflow & Prefect. This involves wrangling/performing complex transformation on both structured & unstructured data from multiple sources (including APIs, Websites, databases, logs, flat-files etc.) & ingesting into an analytical data warehouse or data lake.Scheduling/automating & monitoring data pipelines: Experience in scheduling/automating and monitoring data pipelines for ingesting data into a database, data warehouse or data lake using Apache Airflow, Prefect, DBT Cloud & Cron.Testing, quality assurance & data documentation:Experience in performing unit & integration tests on data pipelines & other data quality checks to ensure high quality data is delivered for downstream analytics.Deployment (CI/CD):Good working knowledge of containerizing data pipelines using Docker and performing continuous integration/continuous deployment using Bamboo.Building analytical reports/dashboards:Experience in building reliable analytical reports/dashboards for business analytics/intelligence purposes using Microsoft Power BI and Looker.