Senior Data & BI Architect · Islamabad, PK · Available globally

Engineering Pipelines that turn data into decisions.

19+ years designing enterprise data architectures — from Teradata warehouses to modern lakehouses on Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric. I build ETL, data models, KPI dashboards, and the governance that keeps them trustworthy.

experience
19+
years in data
projects
100+
IT projects led
platforms
12+
cloud + on-prem
certs
10+
active credentials
SNOWFLAKE·DATABRICKS·MICROSOFT FABRIC·SAP DATASPHERE·SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD·AMAZON REDSHIFT·AMAZON S3·AWS GLUE·ATHENA·TERADATA·AZURE DATAFACTORY·DAGSTER·MATILLION·SSIS·ALTERYX·POWER BI·TABLEAU·SSRS·POSTGRESQL·ORACLE·SQL SERVER·MONGODB·HIVE·SPARK·PYTHON·C# / .NET·JAVA· SNOWFLAKE·DATABRICKS·MICROSOFT FABRIC·SAP DATASPHERE·SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD·AMAZON REDSHIFT·AMAZON S3·AWS GLUE·ATHENA·TERADATA·AZURE DATAFACTORY·DAGSTER·MATILLION·SSIS·ALTERYX·POWER BI·TABLEAU·SSRS·POSTGRESQL·ORACLE·SQL SERVER·MONGODB·HIVE·SPARK·PYTHON·C# / .NET·JAVA·
// 01 — About

I bridge the gap between technology and business value.

For nearly two decades I've designed, built, and shipped data systems that organizations actually rely on — from massive Teradata warehouses to modern lakehouses on Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric. I'm equally comfortable in the SQL of a stored procedure and the YAML of a Dagster pipeline.

My work sits at the intersection of three disciplines: data engineering (pipelines, models, governance), business intelligence (KPIs, dashboards, analytics tools), and technical product leadership (turning business needs into deliverables). I care a lot about data quality, performance, and the people using the dashboards.

Lately, that means bringing AI into the data stack — vector retrieval, semantic layers, agent-ready lakehouses — while keeping the foundations (governance, lineage, trust) intact.

"Asif has a strong command over SQL, NoSQL, and modern data technologies, along with a strategic understanding of Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics."

— PEER RECOMMENDATION · LINKEDIN
// 02 — The Architecture Pipeline

From raw signal to strategic insight.

Each layer is something I've shipped in production — across ETL, modeling, orchestration, and BI.

stage 01

Sources

Operational systems, APIs, files, event streams.

  • · ERP · CRM · IoT
  • · S3 · Kafka · APIs
  • · MQ / MQTT
stage 02

Ingest & Transform

ELT/ETL pipelines with quality, lineage, and orchestration.

  • · Dagster · Matillion
  • · SSIS · AWS Glue · ADF
  • · PySpark · Hive
stage 03

Model & Store

Lakehouse / warehouse with dimensional, data vault, and medallion designs.

  • · Snowflake · Databricks
  • · Redshift · MS Fabric
  • · Teradata · SAP DWH
  • · MongoDB · PostgreSQL
stage 04

Serve & Decide

Dashboards, semantic models, KPI governance, AI-ready retrieval.

  • · Power BI · Tableau
  • · SAP Analytics Cloud
  • · SSRS · Jasper
  • · Vector / RAG layer
// 03 — Stack Depth

Not a checklist. A working toolkit.

Tools I've designed production systems around — not just opened a tutorial on.

Storage & Warehousing

7
Snowflake + S3 Lake Databricks Lakehouse Microsoft Fabric AWS Redshift · Athena Teradata SAP Datasphere Oracle · MSSQL · PostgreSQL YugabyteDB

ETL & Orchestration

8
Dagster Matillion SSIS Pentaho AWS Glue Azure Data Factory Alteryx Apache Spark / Hive

BI & Visualization

6
Power BI Tableau SAP Analytics Cloud SSRS Jasper Reports MongoDB Atlas

Languages

5
SQL (deep) Python C# / .NET Java NoSQL

Streaming & Realtime

3
Apache Pulsar Solace EDA MQTT (IoT)

Modeling & Governance

4
Dimensional · Data Vault Medallion (Bronze→Platinum) Data Quality & Lineage Performance Tuning
// 04 — Journey

Two decades, one craft.

May 2024 — Present
1 yr 11 mo

Senior Data Engineer

CareSoft Pvt Ltd
CURRENT

Designing and managing scalable cloud data architectures — cloud storage, data processing, and analytics/visualization. Developing ETL pipelines, designing data lake / warehouse models, real-time and batch processing, and crafting KPI dashboards with enterprise-grade governance and security.

Nov 2023 — Apr 2024
5 months

SAP BI Consultant

Saudi Azm · Riyadh, KSA

Evaluated data-collection systems for Saudi ministries, translated business needs into technical specs, designed data pipelines and warehouses in SAP DataSphere, and built KPI dashboards in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Jul 2020 — Aug 2023
3 years

Manager IT → Team Lead BI

CareCloud (NASDAQ: CCLD)

Executed a comprehensive BI/analytics strategy. Defined KPIs, designed data infrastructure, drove adoption of advanced analytics, and led Technical Product Management of a self-service dynamic reporting tool — US-listed healthcare-technology company with 17-country operations.

Oct 2016 — Dec 2019
3 yr 2 mo

Principal Software Engineer (Team Lead, Database)

Synergy-IT Pakistan

Led database design and optimization across client engagements; performed ETL using SSIS for data cleaning and integration. Operational and transformation work for enterprise clients across four countries.

Jan 2015 — May 2016
1 yr 4 mo

Systems Support Manager

Khushhali Microfinance Bank

Vendor coordination for banking software; managed software development; documented and built process flows for data movement and integration across the bank's infrastructure.

2005 — 2014
~ 9 years

Experienced Software Engineer (BI) — Comways

2014 — 2015 · Built a C#/.NET BI tool for a Belgian call center. Pentaho ETL and reports.

Team Lead BI — Ovex Technologies

2013 — 2014 · BI architecture for an SAP-based BPO. SSRS reporting, ASP.Net integration.

Senior Reporting Team Lead — PeopleLogic

2010 — 2013 · Telecom BI for Zong / Mobitel. Jasper Reports, real-time self-service BI.

Application Designer — LMKR (Oil & Gas)

2005 — 2010 · Crystal Reports, Java data classes, metadata in XML. Code-quality architect.
Publications

Key Requirements for Component Configuration Management

Research paper on version management, change impact analysis, and ripple-impact identification in software configuration.

MS Thesis

Data Mining for Business Intelligence

MS (Computer Science), Mohammad Ali Jinnah University. Member of CORDE — Center of Research in Data Engineering.

M.Sc. Project

Automation of CRBC Canal Project

M.Sc. Computer Science, Gomal University. Automation of the Chashma Right Bank Canal Project, D.I. Khan.

// 05 — Credentials

Continuously learning, continuously shipping.

Mar 2024

Dagster Essentials

Dagster Labs
Mar 2024

Building a DWH with Matillion

Matillion Academy
Aug 2023

Databricks Lakehouse Fundamentals

Databricks Academy
Dec 2023

SAP Analytics Cloud

Tutorialspoint
Nov 2022

MongoDB M320 — Data Modeling

MongoDB University
Nov 2022

YugabyteDB Managed Basics

Yugabyte
Oct 2022

Solace Event-Driven Architecture Practitioner

Solace
Oct 2022

Apache Pulsar APC-100

StreamNative
Aug 2023

AI & Machine Learning in Business

Alison
Aug 2021

Product Analytics Certification

Product School
// 06 — Let's build something reliable

Got a pipeline that needs to scale, or a warehouse that needs to be trusted?

Open to senior data architecture, BI leadership, and consulting engagements — globally, remote or on-site.

Transforming · { data → information → knowledge → wisdom → impact} . With Absolute Economy