Data Platform Engineer · SF Bay Area
I take data platforms from proof of concept to production. Right now that's a data lakehouse on Kubernetes: one query engine over 40 data sources, backing a customer-facing product and about a dozen internal teams. There's a Kafka streaming platform in staging and AI tooling on top, plus the on-call and disaster recovery that keep it running.
Across the data lifecycle
The platform I run, by the numbers
Selected work
Platform
A production-critical service at 99.9% uptime. It powers a customer-facing SaaS product and is queried directly by a dozen internal teams, data scientists, and engineers.
Streaming
Self-hosted, secured real-time data streaming, running in staging. The streamed data lands straight in the lakehouse, ready to query.
A Data Engineering Open Forum keynote by Airbnb's Jerry Wang argued that AI is collapsing the data stack into one role: the full-stack data engineer who owns the whole lifecycle. Looking at my own work, that shift already happened to me.
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Happy to talk data platforms, lakehouses, or where AI actually earns its keep in infrastructure. LinkedIn is the fastest way to reach me.