Legacy warehouse to Azure Lakehouse
Migrated legacy warehousing to a Bronze, Silver and Gold architecture on Delta Lake, with a focus on data quality, concurrency and compute efficiency.
Principal Data Engineer · Azure & Databricks
Engineering data into decisions.
I’m Abdus Sattar. I design Azure lakehouses, build reliable batch and streaming pipelines, and help teams turn complex data into trusted analytics.
15+Years in technology
7+Years in data engineering
AzureLakehouse and streaming focus
Selected work
Systems built for scale.
Projects spanning cloud migration, enterprise integrations, real-time events, and analytics platforms.
SaaS and compliance data platform
Engineered end-to-end pipelines for Amplitude, MoEngage CRM, Singular attribution and KSA ZATCA e-invoicing data.
Real-time application events
Architected pipelines that consume high-frequency application events through Kafka into Delta Lake for streaming analytics.
MongoDB to Azure Synapse
Automated ingestion and standardization of operational MongoDB collections into Azure Synapse for Power BI and Tableau reporting.
Career
Experience.
The Entertainer
Dubai, UAE / Lahore, Pakistan · Nov 2021 – Present
Principal Data Engineer · Apr 2025 – Present
Senior Data Engineer / Data Engineer · Nov 2021 – Mar 2025
Led Azure lakehouse modernization and built batch and streaming pipelines using Databricks, Spark, Kafka and Delta Lake. Developed enterprise SaaS integrations, data quality practices, deployment automation and engineering standards while mentoring data engineers.
Gnomen Ltd
Lahore, Pakistan · Oct 2018 – Sep 2021
Data Engineer / Software Engineer
Developed Apache Spark and Flink pipelines for ingestion and event processing, deployed machine learning models and REST APIs, and improved platform reliability through monitoring, validation and CI/CD.
Capabilities
Technical expertise.
Cloud & lakehouse
Azure Databricks · Azure Data Factory · ADLS Gen2 · Azure Synapse · Delta Lake · Medallion Architecture
Data & streaming
Apache Spark · PySpark · Delta Live Tables · Apache Kafka · Spark Structured Streaming · Apache Flink
Engineering & analytics
Python · SQL · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · Azure DevOps · Git · CI/CD · Power BI · Tableau
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate
MS Data Science, FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences — in progress
Get in touch
Let’s build better
data systems.
For data engineering roles, architecture discussions or collaboration, reach me directly.
sattaryousaf@gmail.com ↗