Simo Haitof

Senior Data Engineer | Palantir & Azure

Salary / Daily rate

92150 Suresnes, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Data EngineeringAzureKafkaDatabricksEvent Driven ArchitecturePower BIJenkinsRESTful APIsSplunkMavenDevOpsBig DataETLTerraformDockerGitHubGradleAWSdbt

Languages

English

About me

Intro

Senior Data Engineer with over 5 years of experience designing scalable Big Data solutions. Cloud expert proficient in Spark, Hadoop, Hive, and Lakehouse architectures. Specialized in developing batch and streaming data pipelines, industrializing and orchestrating workflows, and delivering data through APIs and dashboards. Experienced in managing production and leading architecture improvements. Strong communicator, skilled at collaborating with both IT and business teams.

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Work experience

Senior Data Engineer Palantir/ Databricks

ENGIEFreelance

Oct 2024 - May 2025

8 months

Paris, France

Context : Designed a data architecture using Azure Data Lake for storage, Databricks for processing and orchestration and Palantir Foundry for Ontology and governance ● Built PySpark ETL engine orchestrated with Airflow to extract data from transactional sources into the azure Landing zone ● Configured service principal authentication to Blob containers using Key Vault. ● Developed optimized Delta tables (Liquid clustering in append mode). ● Developed jobs with respect to medallion architecture in Scala and pyspark ● Deployed workflows using Dbx CLI, asset bundles, and Databricks workflows. ● Created unit and integration tests with PyTest. ● Established CI pipelines with GitHub Actions and managed execution variables with Dynaconf. ● Developed SQL warehouses and integrated with Power BI (import mode). ● Developed ontology object types and implemented restricted views for managing access at row level ● Administered user groups in the namespace (along with OKTA identity provider) ● Optimized spark jobs analyzing execution schemas and logical plans along with repartitioning, broadcasting and other optimization techniques ● Built dashboard visuals in Typescript using Workshop. ● Reviewed architecture and contributed to continuous platform improvements.

Senior Data Engineer- Palantir Foundry / Databricks - Azure

SCORFreelance

May 2023 - Sep 2024

1 year 5 months

Paris, France

context: Databricks integration with foundry and streaming pipelines building ● Developed streaming pipelines with Apache Kafka and EventHub on Databricks. ● Ingested IoT data from customer gateways and configured topics. ● Connected Kafka to EventHub via Service Principal and Key Vault. ● Built consumer scripts in micro-batch mode and decoded Protobuf bytes. ● Created Bronze Delta tables, and Silver and Gold jobs based on a unified data model using Scala ● Deployed jobs in serverless mode using Dbx asset bundles. ● Migrated Python ML models to Polars with multithreading. ● Implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Linter, and Dynaconf. ● Migrated legacy Informatica and Talend batch jobs to Databrick ● Configured Maghritt connectors with azure blob storage in append mode for tables > 100M records with STS assumed roles for authentication ● Used the transform decorator to implement incremental pipelines handling large volumes of data with historized views ● Optimized joins with z-clustering and broadcasting when possible ● Used Data lineage for scheduling and overall governance ● Used ontology API to build dashboards outside of Foundry

Data Engineer azure Databricks

La Banque PostaleFreelance

Feb 2022 - Feb 2023

1 year 1 month

Île-de-France, France · Hybrid

● Led full migration of on-premise Data Lake (HDP Cloudera) to Azure Cloud. ● Audited and redesigned legacy pipelines using Lakehouse principles. ● Migrated data to Azure Blob with orchestration via Data Factory and quality enhancement in Databricks. ● Rewrote Spark jobs (Scala / PySpark) for ingestion, transformation, and normalization. ● Added quality validations and schema conformity checks pre-landing. ● Automated Spark job monitoring with centralized logging and alerting. ● Deployed jobs via Jenkins and integrated controls in CI/CD pipelines. ● Created business repositories to support standardization and versioning. ● Contributed to technical documentation and knowledge transfer.

Data engineer -Palantir

Airbus

Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

2 years 1 month

Région de Saint-Nazaire, France

● Developed data integration workflows on the Skywise platform. ● Built Spark pipelines to collect, transform, and historize datasets. ● Managed end-to-end data projects from ingestion to visualization. ● Participated in architecture reviews and development of business views. ● Used APIs to expose analytical dashboards and datasets.

Pilote PFMEA

STELIA Aerospace

Feb 2018 - Jul 2018

6 months

Casablanca, Morocco

Applying processes failures mode effects analysis on the manufacturing processes of composites used for aeronautical structures in order to: - Define most critical points of the process. -choose pertinent indicators and elaborate efficient ways to pilot the process. -Establish and follow a PDCA to prevent occurent risks.


Education

ISAE-SUPAERO

Advanced Master

2018 - 2019

1 year 1 month

Ecole nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers

Engineer's degree

2013 - 2018

5 years 1 month

Portfolio

Create streaming pipelines to handle more than 100M data point per day.

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