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Kim L

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I design and deliver end-to-end data solutions (ETL/ELT pipelines, dimensional data models, API integrations and automated data quality checks) across Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS, Spark, Airflow and Terraform.

About

I design and deliver end-to-end data solutions (ETL/ELT pipelines, dimensional data models, API integrations and automated data quality checks) across Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS, Spark, Airflow and Terraform. Most recently, I built a data quality framework from scratch that cut data discrepancies from around 50% to near zero within six months. I also re-architected a customer-facing reporting layer for speed and security.

At Sky, I led a team of 20 engineers across the UK and India. I’m as comfortable turning business needs into clear technical plans as I am hands-on in the code. I pick up new tools quickly and care about good documentation and handover.

Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect | BSc Computer Science (1st Class), University of Edinburgh

Open to freelance and contract work, remote or Edinburgh-based.

  • 20 years' experience
  • Joined September 2026

Industry experience

  • Media & Entertainment
  • Software & Internet
  • Government

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Work experience· 6 roles

Senior Data Engineer · N-ableFeb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Designed and built an automated data-quality framework comparing source-system events against warehouse data and surfacing discrepancies via alerts, reducing discrepancies from ~50% to near zero within six months. Diagnosed and fixed a silent data-loss bug for hierarchical objects, reconstructing correct state without a full reload. Implemented a safe, lag-aware object-deletion process to prevent a potential customer-impacting incident. Re-architected a reporting layer to improve performance via stored procedures with predicate push-down, added row-level security, and created reusable period-over-period comparison logic. Introduced Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code for Snowflake, including a local sandbox for safe change testing, replacing manual drift-prone deployments.

Data and Integration Engineer · WorkCastJan 2024 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr

Rapidly ramped up on an iPaaS integration platform to build automated data workflows for lead generation, connecting HubSpot, AWS AI services, and the ChatGPT API. Used JSONata for JSON-based transformation steps and collaborated with marketing stakeholders to iterate prompt-engineering-based integration logic aligned to business objectives.

Data Engineering Squad Manager · SkyJan 2021 – Dec 2024 · 4 yrs

Led a team of 20 data engineering professionals across UK and offshore India squads, delivering well-modelled BigQuery data objects for reporting, analytics, and data science. Built a high-performing team culture through trust and structured process improvement, including new integration testing practices and parallelised delivery steps. Coordinated delivery across multiple stakeholders and downstream consuming teams within a complex, multi-site programme, and supported knowledge transfer to help teams use data objects effectively.

Senior Data Engineer · SkyJan 2019 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs
Data Specialist · WorkCastJan 2017 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr
IT Business Analyst (Scrum Product Owner) · Fox Sports AustraliaJan 2004 – Dec 2015 · 12 yrs

Education

BSc in Computer Science (1st Class Honours) · The University of Edinburgh2026

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