Akin Yalcin

Experience

1. Senior Data Engineer

   Amazon

   Jan 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Expertise in the design, creation, management, and business use of large datasets, across a variety of data platforms.* Excellent business and interpersonal skills to be able to work with business owners to understand data requirements, and to build data pipelines to ingest the data into the data lake.* Experience working in very large data warehouses or data lakes.* Sound knowledge and hands-on experience in ETL optimization, designing, coding, and tuning big data processes using Apache Spark or similar technologies.* Experience with building data pipelines and applications to stream and process datasets at low latencies.* Demonstrate efficiency in handling data tracking, lineage, ensuring data quality, and improving discoverability of data.* Sound knowledge of distributed systems and data architecture (lambda)- design and implement batch and stream data processing pipelines, knows how to optimize the distribution, partitioning in MPP architecture.* Knowledge of Engineering and Operational Excellence using standard methodologies.