TAUSEEF NAWAZ

DATA ENGINEER
Islamabad, PK.

About

Results-driven Azure Certified Data Engineer with over 5 years of expertise in designing scalable data pipelines and building robust lakehouse architectures. Proven ability to deliver business-critical KPIs and dashboards using technologies like Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, and Snowflake. Adept at optimizing solutions with PySpark and SQL to drive data modernization and enhance decision-making across E-commerce, Real Estate, and Banking sectors.

Work

Kavtech Pvt Ltd.
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Senior Data Engineer

Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan

Summary

Led the migration and optimization of critical ETL pipelines, significantly boosting data performance and ensuring seamless data access for diverse business applications.

Highlights

Migrated over 15 legacy ETL pipelines to Microsoft Databricks, boosting data processing performance by up to 60% and significantly reducing maintenance overhead.

Engineered over 40 robust ETL workflows to ingest complex ad-marketing and CRM data from multiple sources into Databricks Unity Catalog, ensuring centralized governance and seamless data access.

Developed more than 20 modular ELT models using DBT on Snowflake, reducing query runtimes by 40% and enabling near real-time marketing performance insights.

Automated data quality checks and incremental loads for CRM and ad data pipelines, increasing data reliability by 70% across 5+ downstream Power BI reports.

Achieved 30% cloud cost savings by redesigning data flows and optimizing Spark SQL queries.

Systems Limited
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Consultant Data Engineer

Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan

Summary

Currently leading the design and implementation of end-to-end lakehouse architectures, driving enterprise-grade BI and reporting solutions for diverse clients.

Highlights

Architected and deployed an end-to-end lakehouse architecture with Microsoft Fabric, enhancing enterprise-grade BI and reporting capabilities.

Developed over 25 key performance indicators (KPIs) from CRM and GA4 data, visualizing insights in Power BI dashboards to inform cross-functional decision-making.

Established and managed an HTAP connection between Azure Cosmos and Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool, enabling real-time data streaming and custom ad-hoc reporting for 12 diverse clients.

Streamlined CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment of data assets, accelerating release cycles by 50%.

Maintained 99.9% system availability through the implementation of robust monitoring, alerting, and failover strategies within the Fabric ecosystem.

RNS Solutions
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Associate Data Engineer

Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan

Summary

Contributed to the development of a blockchain-based financial platform by building real-time ELT pipelines and designing scalable data warehouse solutions.

Highlights

Contributed as an ETL Developer to a blockchain-based financial platform (Cashero), extracting customer journey data from Kafka to enhance analysis and throughput.

Developed real-time ELT pipelines with Kafka and Snowflake, enabling low-latency data ingestion for multi-currency wallets and cross-border payment analytics.

Designed and implemented a medallion architecture with layered data storage (bronze, silver, gold), building a scalable data warehouse using dimensional modeling.

Education

FAST-NUCES
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan

Bachelor of Science

Computer Science

Certificates

Microsoft Azure Data Engineer (DP-203)

Issued By

Microsoft

dbt on Databricks

Issued By

Databricks

Data Warehouse Concepts, Design, and Data Integration

Skills

Data Engineering

Data Pipelines, ETL, ELT, Data Warehousing, Lakehouse Architecture, Data Modeling, Dimensional Modeling, Data Integration, Data Quality, Real-time Data Streaming, Data Modernization, CI/CD.

Cloud Platforms

Azure, AWS S3, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Cosmos, Azure Synapse.

Programming & Scripting

Python, PySpark, SQL, GoLang.

Databases & Data Stores

Delta Lake, NoSQL, Kafka, Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool.

BI & Reporting

Power BI, KPIs, Dashboards.

Tools & Methodologies

DBT, Spark, Synapse, Pentaho DI, SCD Type 2 & 3, Monitoring, Alerting, Failover Strategies, HTAP.

Domain Expertise

E-commerce, Real Estate, Banking, Blockchain, Ad-marketing, CRM.

Project Management & Communication

Client Relationship Management, Cross-functional Collaboration, Technical Communication, Problem-Solving.