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Career Description

With over 15 years of experience in enterprise data engineering, data management and software development, I bring a strong background in hands-on execution and technical leadership across both startups and large enterprises. I have a proven track record of leading agile, cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions aligned with core business objectives.

Professional Summary

  • Certified Data Engineering and Management Expert: 1. AWS Certified Data Engineer, 2. Azure certified Data Engineer Associate,  3. Tableau Certified Consultant, 4. Data Management Professional and 5.Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE).
  • Engineering Leadership: Directed 18+ data engineering, and software engineering projects across Fortune 500 companies and startups, driving innovation and large-scale transformation.
  • Cloud Architecture Proficiency: Specialized in scalable solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Global Exposure: Successfully led teams and delivered solutions in 6 countries, collaborating with diverse, cross-functional teams.
  • Agile & Analytical Excellence: Master’s in Data Science with a strong foundation in agile leadership, critical problem-solving, and team scalability.
  • End-to-End Technical Execution: Deep expertise across data platforms, data engineering, BI tools, MLOps pipelines, and secure infrastructure governance.

Work experience

Dec 2024continuing

Head of Data Platform Development

PETRONAS - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Spearheaded development of an enterprise-grade unified trading data platform, improving system reliability by 45% and enabling 99.9% uptime.
  • Building robust pipelines for reconciliation in trade capture and exchange price, volume, freights and chartering, ultimately which will drive the group wide PnL. Price reconciliation process has been established within 3 months of time and increased the group risk management efficiency by 25% 
  • Led a team of 12+ engineers to deploy data pipelines, reducing manual data prep time by 60% and improving pre-trade decision making efficiency in oil and LNG sector.
  • Managed $2M+ valued end-to-end data infrastructure modernization projects, reducing pipeline latency by 50% and ensuring on-time data delivery across business units.
  • Partnered with C-level stakeholders to design automated data solutions, accelerating data intelligence delivery cycles.
  • Optimized architecture using Spark in Databricks and reducing microservice dependency by delta share /pub-sub mechanism, cutting cloud costs and enhancing processing throughput.
  • Instituted data governance and quality frameworks, improving compliance to 100% and reducing operational risk.
Sep 2022Nov 2024

Principal Data Engineer

Beyond Limits Pte Ltd - Singapore & Malaysia

  • Built real-time analytics platform processing 1+ TB/day for 5,000+ users, delivering 40% cost savings and 30% faster insights.
  • Designed high-throughput pipelines and intelligent business warehous using AWS Glue (PySpark), Lambda, and Redshift; ensured high availability and idempotency.
  • Migrated legacy BI/data platform to Singapore’s Government Commercial Cloud (GCC), enabling secure, scalable operations and faster data delivery.
  • Delivered tailored solutions for clients including Aramco and Changi Airport, improving SLAs by 25% through cloud-native architectures.
  • Directed cross-functional teams in integrating cutting-edge tools for self serving advanced analytics /NLP based analytics to streamline data exploration and visualization.
  • Led code reviews and contributed to modular backend architecture, improving maintainability and reducing deployment errors by 20%.
  • Spearheaded role-based access frameworks across cross-functional analytics environments, collaborating with legal, risk, and infosec teams to ensure regulatory alignment.
Aug 2020Aug 2022

Head, Data Engineering & Retail Analytics

Instapay Technologies Sdn. Bhd - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Drove BI/ML platform development in fintech, enabling personalized marketing and increasing conversion rates by 18%.
  • Built a real-time customer lead system with Pub/Sub and BigQuery, reducing acquisition lag from 2 hours to under 5 minutes.
  • Created marketing intelligence dashboards using Looker and BigQuery, supporting multi-regional campaign decisions with real-time feedback.
  • Implemented a customer profiling data lake in BigQuery, enhancing user segmentation and targeting precision by 30%.
  • Championed implementation of container-based environments using Kubernetes, integrated with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) to automate deployment and minimize operational overhead.
Dec 2014 July 2020

Manager, Data Platform

SSD-Tech – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Designed and maintained scalable data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and delivering large datasets from transactional database, and external APIs, improving ETL reliability and reducing failure rates by 35%.
  • Developed custom BI dashboards integrating multiple data sources to support business-critical decisions across product, finance, and marketing.
  • Standardized data architecture practices, reducing system complexity and improving data model scalability across teams.
  • Mentored junior engineers and analysts, conducting code reviews and architectural sessions to uplift team capability and delivery quality
  • Built observability pipelines using ELK Logging and Monitoring to support real-time system health tracking and incident resolution.
Oct 2011 Nov 2014

Product Development Engineer

Banglalink (a veon's company)

  • Engineered and delivered software components for telecom products used by 23M+ customers, improving system responsiveness by through optimized charging backend design.
  • Developed and maintained scalable REST and SOAP APIs, achieving a 25% reduction in integration defects and standardizing interfaces across internal platforms.
  • Collaborated with data teams to integrate real-time customer usage data into product features, enabling data-driven service personalization and enhancing ARPU tracking accuracy.
  • Collaborated with software, BI, and infrastructure teams to optimize query performance and integrate DWH into core analytics workflows, improving reporting speed.
Dec 2009Sept 2011

Data Warehouse Rollout Engineer

Banglalink - Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Led the rollout of Banglalink’s enterprise data warehouse, delivering the project 3 weeks ahead of schedule and ensuring 100% alignment with business requirements across finance, operations, and marketing teams.
  • Designed and implemented data migration pipelines from legacy systems to the new DWH environment using SQL-based ETL scripts, achieving a 98% data consistency rate across critical tables.
  • Executed system-wide testing and QA procedures, identifying and resolving over 120+ data quality issues during pre-launch, ensuring long-term reliability of business-critical reports.
  • Established baseline data governance frameworks and monitoring protocols, improving regulatory compliance tracking and reducing data discrepancies by 40%.

Certifications

Skill

9
Programming Languages

Python,  SQL, Scala

10
Database/Warehouse/Lakehouse

Databricks, Snowflakes Greenplum, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL,  AWS Redshift, S3, Google BiqQuery, 

10
ETL

AWS Glue, Pentaho, Databricks Workflow, Databricks Delta-pipeline

9
Big Data and Data Streaming

PySpark,Confluent, Apache Kafka, Aws kinesis, Apache flink, Databricks,

7
DevOps & Orchestration

Apache Airflow, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes

8
BI and Data Visualisation

Tableau, Power BI

8
CI/CD or VCS

Git,  Visual studio

6
Machine Learning

Sagemaker, Databricks AutoML, Tensorflow

7
API

REST, SOAP

Education

20192022

Master of Data Science

University of Malaya

20052009

Bachelor of Science, Electronics & Communication

North South University

Core Competencies

  • Technical team leadership
  • stakeholder engagement
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • agile project delivery
  • data-driven process improvement
  • hands-on engineering execution
  • continuous learning mindset

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