Mustafa Merza

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Work Experience

Data Engineer at Rita LLC
January 1, 2025 - January 1, 2025
Built Airflow/Glue/Lambda ETL pipelines, reducing manual effort by 80%. Implemented S3 → Snowflake/Redshift ingestion via Snowpipe + Lambda triggers. Optimized SQL & DBT models for 30–40% faster performance. Built Spark/Databricks pipelines improving ML preprocessing from 4 hrs to 45 min. Automated deployments with Terraform (under 10 minutes). Reduced AWS compute/storage costs 25–40%.
Data Engineer at Task Force Worldwide LLC
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2022
Built Lambda ingestion pipelines processing 200K+ daily records. Designed Kafka/Kinesis streaming with sub-5-second latency. Migrated SQL/MySQL ETL to AWS + Snowflake (3× faster, 40% cheaper). Implemented DBT + Airflow workflows reducing data issues 70%. Increased reporting accuracy from 75% to 98%.
Cloud/Data Engineer at Task Force Worldwide LLC
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2020
Developed Python/Lambda/Glue pipelines processing 1M+ daily records. Built Spark + Kinesis streaming pipelines (10 minutes → 30 seconds). Engineered cross-region S3 replication achieving 99.99% durability. Automated Terraform provisioning reducing manual effort 90%.

Education

Master’s in Education at Indiana University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AAS in Computer Programming at Indiana University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
B.S. Software & Informatics Engineering at Kirkuk University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
Master’s in Education at Indiana University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AAS in Computer Programming at Indiana University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
B.S. Software & Informatics Engineering at Kirkuk University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
Master's in Education at Indiana University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AAS in Computer Programming at Indiana University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
B.S. Software & Informatics Engineering at Kirkuk University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
Master’s in Education at Indiana University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AAS in Computer Programming at Indiana University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
B.S. Software & Informatics Engineering at Kirkuk University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
Master’s in Education at Indiana University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AAS in Computer Programming at Indiana University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
B.S. Software & Informatics Engineering at Kirkuk University
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025

Qualifications

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
CompTIA Security+
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
Cisco CCNA
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
CompTIA Security+
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
Cisco CCNA
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
CompTIA Security+
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
Cisco CCNA
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
CompTIA Security+
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
Cisco CCNA
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
CompTIA Security+
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025
Cisco CCNA
January 11, 2030 - November 22, 2025

Industry Experience

Government, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Manufacturing, Other, Media & Entertainment, Transportation & Logistics, Computers & Electronics