Zulfiqar Sindhu

I’m a Staff Data Engineer with 11 years designing and scaling enterprise data platforms across fintech, healthcare, SaaS, supply chain, and retail. I own end-to-end platform strategy—architecture and data governance through to team mentorship and stakeholder alignment—while staying comfortable driving technical decisions solo or leading cross-functional engineering in fast-moving environments. I build lakehouse and streaming systems that deliver measurable impact: multi-cloud medallion architectures for real-time financial analytics, CDC + Kafka + Spark Structured Streaming pipelines with sub-second latency, and dbt semantic/metric layers that unlock self-service analytics at scale. I also enforce compliance and reliability with Unity Catalog RBAC, PII masking, lineage/observability, automated quality checks (e.g., Great Expectations), and SLA monitoring—cutting cloud costs by 30%, reducing mean time to detect by 60%, and accelerating ML training cycle time by 40% through AI-ready feature engineering and RAG-ready data layers.