Shahleem Latif

About Shahleem Latif

Senior Data Engineer and AI Champion specializing in scalable cloud architectures and Generative AI. With extensive experience in AWS, Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, Python, and SQL, I build the data foundations that power modern intelligent applications.• AI/ML: Developed custom RAG chatbots and AI-powered photo editing tools; Udacity GenAI Nanodegree graduate.• Data Engineering: Architected real-time streaming pipelines (Kafka/Spark) and managed large-scale data lakes (S3/Redshift).• Leadership: Led data services teams and acted as an AI subject matter expert to drive organizational innovation.I enjoy turning \"messy\" data into streamlined, automated gold. Let’s connect to talk about Data Engineering, GenAI, or the future of automation.

Experience

1. Senior Data Engineer

   DaySmart

   Apr 2022 — Present

   Identify, design, and implement continuous process improvements such as automating manual processes and optimizing data delivery for DaySmart Vet• Utilize data profiling, cleansing, and conforming techniques to design procedures and packages for DaySmart Vet• Design and develop scalable data architectures and systems that extract, store, and process large amounts of data for DaySmart Vet• Develop and architect scalable data pipelines and ETL processes using programming languages such as Python and SQL for DaySmart Vet• Architected and developed a real-time structure using Apache Kafka and Apache Spark through Docker for DaySmart Vet• Testing and developing RAG chatbots using OpenAI, Ollama, Groq, etc.• Provide leadership to data services team for DaySmart Vet• Provide leadership as AI Champion teams for DaySmartTechnologies:• Collaboration tools: Slack, Git, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence• Data Engineer tools: Jupyter, Python, Typescript, SQL, AWS, Metabase, MageAI, Docker• AWS Cloud tools: S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, Redshift, OpenSearch• Open Source tools: Apache Kafka, Apache Sparks, Debezium, etc.• AI tools: OpenAI, Ollama, Groq, Google Gemini, Notebook LM, etc.

Education

• College of DuPage

  Associate of Arts (AA) degree, Economics

  2008 — 2010

• Udacity

  Generative AI Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence

  2025 — 2025

• Udacity

  Data Engineering Nanodegree

  2021 — 2021

• DePaul University

  Big Data Using Hadoop Certificate Program, Information Technology

  2015 — 2015

• DePaul University

  Bachelor's degree, Economics

  2011 — 2015

Skills

• Microsoft Excel
• Insurance
• Economics
• Medicare
• Leadership
• Stata
• Hadoop
• Data Analysis
• Health Insurance
• Healthcare
• Econometrics
• Analytical Reasoning
• Sas
• Databases
• Pharmacy
• Java
• Statistical Modeling
• Teamwork
• Banking
• Analysis
• Sql
• Big Data
• Team Leadership
• Sdlc
• Forecasting
• Agile Methodologies
• Microsoft Office
• Statistics
• Python
• Access
• Research
• R