Work

Platforms built inside enterprise programmes.

Delivered inside enterprise programmes as lead engineer or architect. Clients are anonymised; references available under NDA.

European broadcast & streaming group

2024–2026 · 25 months

Customer analytics on one platform, and a way to onboard new data teams without a project each time.

  • Built customer-analytics pipelines on Airflow, Google Cloud, Dataproc and BigQuery
  • Architected a central Databricks platform for fast onboarding of data sources and product teams
  • Streaming ingestion with Spark Structured Streaming and Kafka
  • A Unity Catalog permissions model for engineering teams and service principals, expressed in Terraform, plus reusable CI/CD template components for standardised deployment
  • Databricks
  • Unity Catalog
  • PySpark
  • Kafka
  • Airflow
  • GCP
  • Terraform

Global industrial manufacturer, Nordics

2024–2025 · 17 months

Company-wide data democratisation, including the SAP estate.

  • Designed and built the platform on Azure and Databricks
  • Analytics solutions for supply-chain and product-lifecycle domains
  • SAP ERP master and transactional data integrated
  • Declarative Asset Bundles, a data governance concept and a CI/CD concept adopted across teams
  • Azure Databricks
  • Unity Catalog
  • SAP ERP
  • PySpark
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Asset Bundles

Global chemicals group

2020–2024 · 46 months

An enterprise data lake and a self-service science environment used across the group.

  • Built and operated the corporate lakehouse
  • A secure, reusable Data Science Lab deployed for 200+ internal clients
  • Automated infrastructure and CI/CD
  • Data-integration programmes including a B2B industry platform and customer analytics
  • Azure Databricks
  • Terraform
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure ML
  • SAP ERP
  • Kafka
  • Power BI

Financial-markets trading venue

2016–2019 · 44 months

Analytics over billions of records a day, in batch and in real time.

  • Architected and operated the big-data infrastructure
  • Built a data-management framework on DataOps principles
  • DWH modelling and query optimisation
  • Advanced analytics on very large datasets in both batch and streaming
  • Spark
  • Scala
  • Kafka
  • Hadoop
  • Impala
  • Postgres
  • Spring Boot

European experience-commerce group

2021–2023 · 25 months

One warehouse from five disconnected systems.

  • Architected the corporate lakehouse on Azure Databricks and Airflow
  • Consolidated SAP ERP, CRM, web analytics and an in-house ERP for analytics
  • A streaming proof of concept for event ingestion
  • Comprehensive unit and integration test coverage across PySpark and Airflow code
  • Azure Databricks
  • Airflow
  • SAP ERP
  • Spark Structured Streaming
  • pytest

German insurance group (delivered via a consulting partner)

2020 · 4 months

A cloud data-lake concept the security team would actually approve.

  • Cloud lakehouse concept on Azure Databricks with a strong DevOps focus
  • Identity, storage and pipeline design
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Databricks
  • ADLS Gen2
  • Azure AD
  • Terraform
  • GitLab

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