Senior Data Engineer, AI/ML Solutions Engineer & Data Architect with 7+ years of expertise in Big Data, AI/ML Platforms, Data Governance, Cloud Platforms, and Enterprise Data Architectures across Government, Telecom, Banking & Healthcare sectors in the UAE & beyond.
I am a Senior Data Engineer, AI/ML Solutions Engineer, and Data Architect based in Dubai, UAE, with 7+ years of hands-on experience leading enterprise-scale data migrations, big data platform management, AI/ML deployments, data quality, and data governance initiatives across government, healthcare, banking, telecom, and transport sectors.
At Emircom LLC, I lead data engineering and AI initiatives for RTA Dubai — deploying production ML models on Dataiku DSS, building GenAI/RAG chatbots, developing parking demand forecasting pipelines, and architecting scalable ETL/ELT on Informatica BDM and Cloudera CDP. Previously at Hypernym FZ LLC, I managed a 700+ TB enterprise data platform as Technical Lead for RTA Dubai across ETL, BI, and infrastructure.
I bring deep expertise across the Hadoop ecosystem, Informatica suite (BDM, IDQ, EDC, IDMC), Dataiku DSS, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and modern governance frameworks including NDMO, GDPR, and HIPAA. I am passionate about building data platforms that are reliable, intelligent, and impactful at scale.
Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) Dubai
Managing enterprise Cloudera CDP (7.1.9) across 4 clusters (Dev, Staging, Production, DR) handling 700+ TB data from 50+ data sources. Full data governance, pipeline management, and AI dataset preparation.
Telenor Pakistan
Designed and deployed a 45-node CDH & CDS Cloudera cluster. Built CDR data lake with Kafka brokers, implemented enterprise security (Kerberos/Sentry), Vertica upgrade (9.2 → 12.0.4). Achieved 75% increase in data processing speed.
Jazz (70M+ Customers)
Deployed HDP, HDF, and Cassandra clusters. Designed data lake on NiFi, exposed data via REST API with Cassandra as the performance layer. Also designed Fraud Management System architecture on 15-node HDP cluster with Pentaho BI suite.
PTCL (Pakistan's Largest ICT Company)
Led full DWH-to-Hadoop migration as Technical Lead. Deployed 6-node CDH on Oracle Big Data Appliance, implemented Oracle Golden Gate CDC, built NiFi ETL flows Source→BDA→Exalytics, and enforced enterprise Kerberos + Sentry security.
Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) Dubai
Designed and deployed a Generative AI chatbot powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) on Dataiku DSS. Integrated enterprise knowledge bases for internal Q&A, document retrieval, and decision support using LLM orchestration and vector search.
Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) Dubai
Built and deployed a production machine learning forecasting model on Dataiku DSS to predict parking demand across Dubai. Engineered features from IoT sensors, historical usage, and event data; managed full ML lifecycle from data preparation to model monitoring.
Statistics Centre — Abu Dhabi (SCAD)
Designed and developed end-to-end ETL pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Databricks (PySpark/SQL) to process data at scale. Implemented Delta Lake bronze-silver-gold architecture for ACID transactions, schema evolution, and optimized query performance.
Islamabad Police
High-security defence project integrating data sources from across the country into a Hadoop platform for national-level analytics and intelligence. Deployed 14-node HDP cluster with Sqoop ingestion and Elasticsearch for distributed search.
Dataiku
2026Project Management Institute
May 2025Microsoft
Dec 2024Red Hat
Aug 2024Microsoft
Feb 2024Informatica
Jan 2023Cloudera
Sep 2022A practical guide to applying the National Data Management Office (NDMO) framework for enterprise data governance in UAE government entities, based on real-world implementation experience.
Read MoreKey takeaways and best practices from successfully upgrading all environments (DR, PROD, Staging, Dev) from Cloudera CDH 6.1.1 to CDP 7.1.9 across a large UAE government data platform.
Read MoreHow to architect a robust Delta Lake on Azure Databricks for government-scale analytics — covering ACID transactions, schema evolution, time travel, and performance optimization with Spark.
Read MoreHave a data challenge? Let's discuss how I can help you build scalable, governed data solutions.