Principal Data Engineer and Cloud Architect

Build a data platform your business can trust at scale.

I help companies modernize from spreadsheet chaos and fragile pipelines into reliable, auditable, cloud-native systems. My focus is measurable business outcomes, not platform theater.

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How I Help

Data Platform Modernization

Migrate from ad-hoc spreadsheets and brittle jobs into a governed warehouse and orchestration foundation.

Reliability and Data Quality Engineering

Implement validation, reconciliation, schema drift monitoring, and alerting to prevent silent failures.

Cloud Architecture and Cost Discipline

Design event-driven systems on GCP or AWS that scale for growth while keeping spend and operations predictable.

Regulated Data Systems

Build auditable pipelines and controls for healthcare and other compliance-sensitive environments.

Selected Impact

Early-warning reliability system: Airflow + dbt + BigQuery + Slack framework for fast issue triage and improved production confidence.
Hybrid transfer gateway: Connected AWS SFTP silos to GCP-native analytics for secure, automated, auditable ingestion.
Cloud-native ingest architecture: Built Gen2 Cloud Functions based ingestion with robust schema and validation controls.
Analytics modernization: Moved business logic out of Excel and Sheets into governed dbt models and orchestrated workflows.

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Experience Snapshot

Podimetrics (2024-2025)

Principal quality and platform engineering for GCP analytics systems, Airflow orchestration, dbt transformation, and reliability operations.

SURL Founder (2023-2024)

Built secure transfer infrastructure on AWS with Kafka, Python services, observability, and explicit cost accountability.

Pfizer (2009-2023)

Senior technical leadership across clinical data processing, archive search systems, and modernization in regulated environments.

Where I Have Built

Core Technologies

Let’s Build Something Useful

If you need a senior engineer to lead architecture, unblock delivery, or stabilize critical data workflows, email me directly and I will respond quickly.

kris.kokomoor@gmail.com