Janice N. Jafri

Lead Data Engineer | Cloud-Native Platforms & AI/ML Specialist

10+ years building scalable, secure data platforms on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Expert in Snowflake, Databricks, and real-time streaming pipelines.

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10+
Years Experience
3
Certifications
5+
Major Projects

Professional Summary

Lead Data Engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native platforms on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Expert in Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, dbt, Airflow, SQL, and Python for batch/real-time pipelines at petabyte scale. Skilled in data modeling, Medallion/lakehouse architecture, and governance (Purview, Collibra, Monte Carlo) ensuring HIPAA/GDPR/CCPA compliance.

Core Skills

Cloud Platforms

  • AWS (Glue, S3, EMR, Redshift)
  • Azure (Synapse, Purview, Data Factory)
  • GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow)
  • Snowflake

Data Engineering

  • Apache Spark
  • Kafka
  • Databricks
  • Airflow

AI/ML

  • MLflow
  • Pinecone
  • LangChain
  • Vector DBs

Professional Experience

01/2023 – Present

Lead Data Engineer, Analytics8

  • Architected multi-cloud lakehouse with Databricks and Snowflake, reducing costs by 30%.
  • Designed streaming pipelines with Kafka and Airflow, processing 10M+ transactions daily.
  • Implemented governance with Purview and Collibra for HIPAA/GDPR compliance.
01/2020 – 12/2022

Sr. Cloud Data Engineer, Vectorsoft

  • Built Snowflake and Azure Synapse pipelines, processing 6TB+ healthcare data daily.
  • Optimized ELT workflows, reducing SLA breaches by 30%.
  • Integrated AWS and Azure services for hybrid cloud workflows.

Key Projects

AI Lakehouse & Semantic Layer

2023 Data Engineering

Built Databricks + Snowflake lakehouse with dbt Semantic Layer, saving $1.5M/year and enabling 60% faster AI/ML deployment.

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Real-Time Streaming and LLM

2023 AI/ML

Delivered Kafka + Flink pipelines with Pinecone and LangChain, cutting fraud false positives by 35%.

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Certifications

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional

Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203)

AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty

Get In Touch

Email

ferwa263@gmail.com

Phone

(206) 929-6004

Location

Kent, WA, 98003