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I'm Mahamadou Abdou Issoufou, a Senior Data & Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing real-time data platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and ML-enabled pipelines. I specialize in DevOps and MLOps, delivering secure, scalable platforms on AWS and Azure using Kubernetes, Terraform, Spark, and Kafka. I have a proven track record of enabling ML and analytics teams by automating data ingestion, monitoring, and deployment workflows. Most recently, I built and operated data pipelines for wind-farm sensors at Equinor and scaled infrastructure across fintech and transportation projects. I took a planned sabbatical starting May 2024 to focus on family commitments while maintaining active learning, including Kubernetes CKAs, CKADs, and other certifications. I’m eager to return to contract work and help teams deliver reliable, data-driven solutions.…I'm Mahamadou Abdou Issoufou, a Senior Data & Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing real-time data platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and ML-enabled pipelines. I specialize in DevOps and MLOps, delivering secure, scalable platforms on AWS and Azure using Kubernetes, Terraform, Spark, and Kafka. I have a proven track record of enabling ML and analytics teams by automating data ingestion, monitoring, and deployment workflows. Most recently, I built and operated data pipelines for wind-farm sensors at Equinor and scaled infrastructure across fintech and transportation projects. I took a planned sabbatical starting May 2024 to focus on family commitments while maintaining active learning, including Kubernetes CKAs, CKADs, and other certifications. I’m eager to return to contract work and help teams deliver reliable, data-driven solutions.

Mahamadou Abdou Issoufou

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I'm Mahamadou Abdou Issoufou, a Senior Data & Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing real-time data platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and ML-enabled pipelines. I specialize in DevOps and MLOps, delivering secure, scalable platforms on AWS and Azure using Kubernetes, Terraform, Spark, and Kafka. I have a proven track record of enabling ML and analytics teams by automating data ingestion, monitoring, and deployment workflows. Most recently, I built and operated data pipelines for wind-farm sensors at Equinor and scaled infrastructure across fintech and transportation projects. I took a planned sabbatical starting May 2024 to focus on family commitments while maintaining active learning, including Kubernetes CKAs, CKADs, and other certifications. I’m eager to return to contract work and help teams deliver reliable, data-driven solutions.…I'm Mahamadou Abdou Issoufou, a Senior Data & Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing real-time data platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and ML-enabled pipelines. I specialize in DevOps and MLOps, delivering secure, scalable platforms on AWS and Azure using Kubernetes, Terraform, Spark, and Kafka. I have a proven track record of enabling ML and analytics teams by automating data ingestion, monitoring, and deployment workflows. Most recently, I built and operated data pipelines for wind-farm sensors at Equinor and scaled infrastructure across fintech and transportation projects. I took a planned sabbatical starting May 2024 to focus on family commitments while maintaining active learning, including Kubernetes CKAs, CKADs, and other certifications. I’m eager to return to contract work and help teams deliver reliable, data-driven solutions.

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I’m Mahamadou Abdou Issoufou, a Senior Data & Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing real-time data platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and ML-enabled pipelines. I specialize in DevOps and MLOps, delivering secure, scalable platforms on AWS and Azure using Kubernetes, Terraform, Spark, and Kafka. I have a proven track record of enabling ML and analytics teams by automating data ingestion, monitoring, and deployment workflows.

Most recently, I built and operated data pipelines for wind-farm sensors at Equinor and scaled infrastructure across fintech and transportation projects. I took a planned sabbatical starting May 2024 to focus on family commitments while maintaining active learning, including Kubernetes CKAs, CKADs, and other certifications. I’m eager to return to contract work and help teams deliver reliable, data-driven solutions.

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Work Experience

Career Break / Personal Sabbatical

May 1, 2024 - Present

Took a planned sabbatical to focus on personal and family commitments. Completed certifications for Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Developer (CKAD) – Issued August 2025. Stayed engaged with technology through continuous learning, ensuring readiness for a seamless return to contract work.

Senior Data Engineer / DevOps at Equinor

August 1, 2022 - April 30, 2024

Built real-time pipelines (Scala, Spark, Kafka) processing millions of IoT events for wind farm sensors, enabling predictive maintenance and ML-driven optimization. Automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Airflow, Kubernetes; implemented data quality, encryption and end-to-end security to support compliance.

Senior Platform Engineer at Baanx

February 1, 2022 - July 31, 2022

Scaled infrastructure platform with AWS ECS/EKS, improving fault tolerance and capacity. Optimized data pipelines and warehouse (Redshift, Aurora, S3) to support growth and performance.

Senior Data Engineer / DevOps at Monavate Payment Solutions

January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

End-to-end platform for data warehousing and BI. Designed ingestion pipelines (Kafka, Glue, Lambda, S3 → Redshift Spectrum). Automated AWS infrastructure with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform.

Senior Data Engineer / DevOps at Transport for West Midlands

August 1, 2020 - January 31, 2021

Developed Kafka-based streaming pipelines for 5G sensor data. Deployed secure Kafka clusters with encryption and ACLs; designed an IoT data lake on AWS (S3, Lambda, EKS).

Senior Data Engineer at McGill&Partners (Insurance)

October 1, 2019 - January 31, 2020

Delivered data pipelines for ingestion into data warehouses with strong data quality and governance, enabling reliable analytics and ML workflows. Built monitoring and metrics to track data health and performance; promoted Agile practices.

Senior Data Engineer / DevOps at McGill&Partners (Insurance)

October 1, 2019 - January 31, 2020

Delivered data pipelines for ingestion into data warehouses; implemented data quality and governance; built dashboards for analytics and ML workflows; promoted Agile practices.

Senior Data Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group (via Pfg)

February 1, 2019 - August 31, 2019

Designed data models and big data pipelines for ML-ready datasets; built REST APIs/microservices to support risk analysis and model integration; improved pipeline reliability and testing (TDD).

Senior Data Engineer at Questel

September 1, 2014 - February 28, 2018

Built streaming pipelines (Kafka, Spark Streaming) for real-time analytics; delivered batch ETL with Spark SQL; developed microservices for ETL across sources; deployed clusters (YARN, Spark Standalone, Kubernetes) with Airflow for orchestration.