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Mahnoor Zahid

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I’m Mahnoor Zahid, a data engineering consultant with over 4 years of hands-on experience building scalable ETL pipelines on AWS and Databricks.

About

I’m Mahnoor Zahid, a data engineering consultant with over 4 years of hands-on experience building scalable ETL pipelines on AWS and Databricks. I enjoy turning complex data into reliable, secure analytics platforms and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver cloud-native solutions.

From migrating HDP to CDP on AWS to designing event-driven real-time data lakes and cross-region ingestion frameworks, I focus on governance, security, and cost optimization while delivering robust data platforms.

  • 5 years' experience
  • Joined May 2024

Industry experience

  • Computers & Electronics
  • Software & Internet
  • Professional Services

Work experience· 4 roles

Data Engineer · Regeneron PharmaceuticalsFeb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

Data Engineering (Feb 2023 – Present). Led HDP → CDP migration on AWS; designed configuration-driven routing for ingestion and target schemas; built idempotent, exactly-once processing with DLQ handling; parallelized PySpark jobs; instrumented CloudWatch and incident routing; achieved ingestion latency reduction and >99% job reliability. Implemented event-driven real-time data lake ingestion using MWAA, EventBridge, Lambda, and SQS; developed EU CRM Spark-based ETL for cross-region CRM data; established governance and security baselines.

Data Platform Operations · Regeneron PharmaceuticalsJan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

Data Platform Infrastructure Operations. Managed day-to-day data operations for HDP, EMR, and Databricks during Hortonworks to AWS-managed services migration; oversaw governance, cost-reduction initiatives; provided Redshift, RDS, and Hive DBA support; automated reporting via Python.

Consultant · System LimitedSep 2021 – Dec 2021 · 4 mos

Internal POC: end-to-end ML pipeline prototype. Stack included Azure, MLFlow, Python, MS SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins; designed drift management, model retraining, and performance monitoring; demonstrated end-to-end ML workflow.

Consultant · Systems Ltd / Tec hvista LtdJan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

Education

Bachelor’s in Software Engineering · University of the Punjab2030 – 2026

Certifications and awards

AWS Certified Data Engineer2030 – 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate2030 – 2026
Azure Fundamentals2030 – 2026

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