Hi, I'm Tarifarooq, a results-driven Senior Data Engineer and Cloud Architect with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and optimizing scalable cloud-native data platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I specialize in modern data architectures, lakehouse platforms, real-time streaming, and infrastructure automation. I have a proven track record leading enterprise data modernization initiatives, improving performance and reliability, reducing cloud costs, and enabling advanced analytics and machine learning. I enjoy partnering with engineering, analytics, security, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, compliant data ecosystems across healthcare, financial services, and SaaS domains.

Tarifarooq

Hi, I'm Tarifarooq, a results-driven Senior Data Engineer and Cloud Architect with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and optimizing scalable cloud-native data platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I specialize in modern data architectures, lakehouse platforms, real-time streaming, and infrastructure automation. I have a proven track record leading enterprise data modernization initiatives, improving performance and reliability, reducing cloud costs, and enabling advanced analytics and machine learning. I enjoy partnering with engineering, analytics, security, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, compliant data ecosystems across healthcare, financial services, and SaaS domains.

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Hi, I’m Tarifarooq, a results-driven Senior Data Engineer and Cloud Architect with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and optimizing scalable cloud-native data platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

I specialize in modern data architectures, lakehouse platforms, real-time streaming, and infrastructure automation. I have a proven track record leading enterprise data modernization initiatives, improving performance and reliability, reducing cloud costs, and enabling advanced analytics and machine learning. I enjoy partnering with engineering, analytics, security, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, compliant data ecosystems across healthcare, financial services, and SaaS domains.

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Work Experience

IoT Streaming & Predictive Analytics Architect at Taazaa Inc.
October 2, 2015 - September 2, 2018
Led migration from on-prem SQL Server to Azure Synapse Analytics; designed end-to-end ETL pipelines using Airflow and Azure Data Factory; engineered real-time IoT streaming and predictive analytics pipelines; integrated ERP/CRM data sources; contributed to data governance, security, and cloud adoption.
Cloud Data Architect at Xduce Corporation
November 2, 2018 - March 2, 2022
Architected and delivered a scalable, multi-cloud data platform across AWS and Snowflake; designed low-latency ETL pipelines using Airflow and AWS Glue; implemented Delta Lake storage and RBAC-based data governance; automated cloud infra with Terraform, Docker, and GitHub Actions; led enterprise migration from Redshift to Snowflake with 60% query performance improvement and 50% cost reduction; collaborated with data science teams to operationalize ML features.

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Healthcare, Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services