Nofel E.
Data Engineer & DevOps | AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, Terraform, CI/CD
If your data pipelines are unreliable, your warehouse can't keep up, or your cloud infrastructure has become a cost nobody fully owns, that's exactly what I fix. I'm Nofel, a data architect and data engineer with 10+ years of experience designing production data warehouses, data lakes, and pipelines for enterprise clients, including 𝐊𝐏𝐍 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦 (Netherlands), 𝐁𝐌𝐖 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩, and 𝐌𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦, with hands-on DevOps experience helping startups and growing engineering teams cut deployment friction and reduce cloud costs. 𝐀 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤: ✅ Improved data processing efficiency by 30% on a genomic analysis data stack (Snowflake, S3, Talend) ✅ Built a Hadoop/Presto data lake for a credit scoring agency, ingesting 1TB+ of data monthly at 99% data integrity ✅ Cut CPU consumption on ETL jobs by 40% for a major telecom client ✅ Replaced a legacy Jenkins setup with automated GitHub Actions workflows, cutting deployment time from 2 hours to 8 minutes ✅ Containerized microservices on AWS EKS with automated health checks and blue/green deployments, raising uptime from 97% to 99.9% ✅ Reduced AWS costs by ~25% through EC2 rightsizing, savings plans, and automated non-prod shutdowns ✅ Recognized with Teradata's Consulting Excellence Award and Associate of the Quarter (twice) 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬: ➤ 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠: Snowflake, Databricks, Teradata, dbt, ETL/ELT pipeline design, data modeling, data warehouse & data lake architecture ➤ 𝐎𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory, data quality frameworks, lineage & metadata management ➤ 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 & 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞: AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS), Azure, Terraform, CloudFormation ➤ 𝐂𝐈/𝐂𝐃 & 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), blue/green deployments ➤ 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: IAM hardening, cost optimization, production monitoring 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧: 🔹 Telecom (KPN, Mobily) 🔹 Automotive (BMW Group) 🔹 Biotech & Genomics 🔹 Financial Services / Credit Scoring 🔹 Retail & Supply Chain If you need someone who can build the pipeline and the infrastructure underneath it without a handoff, send me a message or click Invite to Job. Let's talk about what you're working with.
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