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DATA & SOLUTION ARCHITECT

SAAD ALAM
KHAN

Architecting enterprise data platforms that deliver measurable business outcomes — from a 12-petabyte HIPAA-compliant lakehouse processing 2.3M+ patient records daily to RAG-powered clinical AI systems. 12 years. Multi-cloud native. AI-agent ready.

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// CERTIFIED & BATTLE-TESTED TECHNOLOGIES

❄️SNOWFLAKE
🧱DATABRICKS
📡APACHE KAFKA
⚡APACHE SPARK
🔧dbt CORE
🌬️AIRFLOW
☁️AWS
🔷AZURE
🌐GCP
🏗️TERRAFORM
🐍PYTHON
🔗LANGCHAIN
🐳DOCKER
☸️KUBERNETES
🔁DELTA LAKE
📊POWER BI
🛡️UNITY CATALOG
🌊APACHE FLINK
❄️SNOWFLAKE
🧱DATABRICKS
📡APACHE KAFKA
⚡APACHE SPARK
🔧dbt CORE
🌬️AIRFLOW
☁️AWS
🔷AZURE
🌐GCP

SELECTED PROJECTS

Flagship Builds />

PROJECT // 01

Apache Flink Real-Time Clinical Event Engine

Deployed an Apache Flink CEP engine on AWS EMR processing 500K+ events/hour with sliding window aggregations, stateful pattern detection, and late-data handling for patient deterioration alerts. Fully integrated with Kafka, Kinesis Firehose, and Delta Lake under HIPAA/HITRUST.

Sub-3s Latency44% Fewer False Alerts500K+ Events/Hr150+ Hospitals
Apache Flink CEPKafkaAWS EMRDelta LakeKinesis FirehoseHIPAA
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KAFKA FLINK CEP DELTA KINESIS EMR REAL-TIME · CLINICAL · HIPAA FLINK CEP · 500K+ EVENTS/HR

PROJECT // 02

12-Petabyte Healthcare Lakehouse on Databricks

Architected a HIPAA/HITRUST-compliant 12-petabyte healthcare lakehouse ingesting 2.3M+ patient records daily from 150+ hospital networks in HL7/FHIR. Led zero-downtime 12PB migration via blue-green cutover. $2M+ annual cloud savings presented to C-suite.

2.3M+ Records/Day12PB Scale$2M+ Savings99.9% SLA
DatabricksDelta LakeUnity CatalogAWSHL7/FHIRMLflowSageMaker
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BRONZE — RAW · HL7/FHIR · 150+ HOSPITALS SILVER — CLEANSED · VALIDATED · PHI MASKED GOLD — AGGREGATED · BI-READY · ML FEATURES UNITY CATALOG 2,300,000+ RECORDS / DAY MEDALLION · AWS · DATABRICKS 12PB LAKEHOUSE · ZERO-DOWNTIME MIGRATION

PROJECT // 03

Enterprise Data Mesh with Federated Governance

Domain-driven Data Mesh on Databricks + Delta Lake with federated governance via Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview, and AWS Lake Formation. Enforcing row-level security, column masking, SOX/GDPR controls, and data contracts at the platform layer.

6 Weeks → 48 Hrs50+ Data Products8 Domain Teams99.8% Quality
DatabricksUnity CatalogdbtGreat ExpectationsAirbyteMS PurviewSOX/GDPR
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DATA PLATFORM CLINICALDOMAIN FINANCEDOMAIN OPSDOMAIN MLDOMAIN DATA MESH · FEDERATED · 8 DOMAINS DATA MESH · FEDERATED GOVERNANCE

PROJECT // 04

Real-Time Financial Risk Platform & ETL Modernization

Cloud-native real-time risk analytics for 3 enterprise fintech clients processing 15M+ daily transactions. Kafka + ksqlDB with Debezium CDC for fraud detection. Modernized 8 legacy Informatica/SSIS workflows to Airflow + dbt + Fivetran.

15M+ TXN/Day60% Faster ETL65% Faster ReportingSOX/GDPR/CPRA
KafkaksqlDBDebezium CDCAirflowdbtFivetranCollibra MDM
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15M+ TRANSACTIONS / DAY REAL-TIME · FRAUD DETECTION · SOX 15M+ TXN/DAY · KAFKA · KSQLDB

PROJECT // 05

LangChain RAG & Multi-Agent AI Clinical Platform

LangChain RAG pipelines and multi-agent AI workflows for clinical data products. HuggingFace for unstructured text processing and FAISS/Pinecone for semantic retrieval — cutting clinical query response time by 55%.

55% Faster QueriesMulti-Agent AISemantic RAG
LangChainLangGraphHuggingFaceFAISSPineconeRAGAWS Bedrock
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CLINICAL DOCS EMBEDDINGS VECTOR STORE FAISS/PINECONE LLM / RAG CHAIN LANGCHAIN + LANGGRAPH ANSWER · 55% FASTER AI · RAG · LANGCHAIN · CLINICAL RAG PIPELINE · LANGCHAIN · PINECONE

TECHNOLOGY RADAR

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PLATFORM DESIGN

Medallion Architecture />

The exact lakehouse pattern behind Saad's 12-petabyte HIPAA-compliant platform at Truveta — processing 2.3M+ patient records daily across 150+ hospital networks.

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HL7/FHIR 150+ HOSPITALS EHR SYSTEMS KAFKA STREAMS SOURCES INGESTION Kafka + Debezium Airbyte · Fivetran 500K+ events/hr CDC · STREAMING BRONZE LAYER Raw · Immutable Delta Lake S3 / ADLS SCHEMA REG. SILVER LAYER Cleansed · Validated PHI/PII Masked dbt Models GREAT EXPECT. MONTE CARLO GOLD LAYER BI-Ready · Agg. ML Features Star Schema UNITY CATALOG RBAC · HIPAA POWER BI ML / SAGEMAKER RAG / AI CLINICAL APPS CONSUMERS 12 PB · 2.3M+ RECORDS/DAY · HIPAA/HITRUST · 99.9% SLA
BRONZE
RAW · IMMUTABLE · DELTA LAKE
SILVER
CLEANSED · PHI MASKED · VALIDATED
GOLD
BI-READY · ML FEATURES · GOVERNED

DEEP DIVES

Case Studies />

Three before/after breakdowns showing exactly how Saad moved the needle — the problem, the architecture decision, and the measurable outcome.

CASE STUDY // 01 · HEALTHCARE · TRUVETA INC.

Zero-Downtime 12 Petabyte Migration to Databricks Lakehouse

$2M+/yr SAVED

⚠ BEFORE

Legacy on-premise systems processing 2.3M+ daily patient records across 150+ hospital networks. No unified governance, PHI/PII exposure risk, 6-week data product onboarding, zero SLA visibility.

→

✓ AFTER

Blue-green deployment with phased cutovers, automated rollback triggers, Unity Catalog PHI/PII masking, Medallion Architecture, 99.9% SLA across 200+ pipelines. Zero downtime. $2M+ annual savings delivered to C-suite.

DATABRICKS DELTA LAKE UNITY CATALOG AWS EMR PYSPARK HIPAA/HITRUST

CASE STUDY // 02 · HEALTHCARE · APTASK

LangChain RAG Pipeline — 55% Faster Clinical Query Response

55% FASTER

⚠ BEFORE

Clinicians querying unstructured patient records through manual search. Days-long data access turnaround. No AI layer on top of the data platform. Clinical teams blocked on insight delivery.

→

✓ AFTER

Production-grade RAG pipeline using LangChain, HuggingFace embeddings, and FAISS/Pinecone vector store. Clinical query response time cut by 55%. Foundation for two downstream AI-powered healthcare tools.

LANGCHAIN HUGGINGFACE FAISS PINECONE RAG VECTOR DB

CASE STUDY // 03 · FINTECH · BANNER HEALTH

Legacy Informatica → Airflow + dbt + Fivetran: 15M+ TXN/day, Zero Outage

65% FASTER

⚠ BEFORE

8 legacy Informatica PowerCenter and SSIS pipelines unable to meet SOX/GDPR regulatory timelines. No real-time fraud detection. 3-day environment provisioning. ETL failures blocking 15M+ daily financial records.

→

✓ AFTER

Modern ELT stack: Airflow + dbt + Fivetran with full pytest coverage. Kafka + ksqlDB fraud detection. Terraform reduced env setup from 3 days → 2 hours. Regulatory reporting 65% faster. Zero production outage during cutover.

AIRFLOW dbt FIVETRAN KAFKA TERRAFORM SOX · GDPR

CAREER JOURNEY

Work Experience />

JAN 2023
PRESENT

APTASK

Data & Solution Architect

  • Designed LangChain RAG pipelines and multi-agent AI workflows for clinical data products, cutting query response time by 55%.
  • Architected multi-cloud strategy across AWS, Azure, and GCP using TOGAF & C4 Model — drove 3 major executive migration approvals.
  • Deployed Apache Flink CEP engine on AWS EMR processing 500K+ events/hour, sub-3s latency, 44% fewer false clinical alerts.
  • Built self-serve data platform from scratch adopted by 8 engineering teams. Mentored 6 engineers across 4 time zones, boosting velocity by 40%.
RAG / LANGCHAINAPACHE FLINKMULTI-CLOUDTOGAF / C4
MAY 2020
DEC 2022

TRUVETA, INC.

Senior Data Engineer

  • Architected 12-petabyte HIPAA/HITRUST-compliant healthcare lakehouse on Databricks ingesting 2.3M+ patient records daily from 150+ hospitals.
  • Built Kafka + Debezium CDC pipelines at sub-5s latency with 99.9% SLA adherence across 200+ production pipelines.
  • Led zero-downtime 12PB migration from on-premise to Databricks on AWS via blue-green cutover — 0 data loss.
  • Rearchitected PySpark workloads delivering $2M+ annual cloud savings (40% reduction). TCO presented to C-suite.
  • Reduced data incidents 73% via Great Expectations, Monte Carlo, and dbt tests in CI/CD pipelines.
$2M+ SAVINGS12PB LAKEHOUSE99.9% SLAHIPAA/HITRUST
JAN 2017
APR 2020

BANNER HEALTH

Cloud Data Engineer

  • Architected real-time risk analytics platform processing 15M+ daily transactions with Kafka + Debezium CDC for fraud detection.
  • Enforced SOX-compliant audit logging, CPRA/GDPR lifecycle policies via Collibra MDM — reduced regulatory reporting time by 65%.
  • Applied TOGAF EA across 5 fintech engagements, drove 3 platform migration approvals for Snowflake, MS Fabric, and Azure Synapse.
  • Delivered ETL/ELT pipelines for 15M+ daily records, migrating 8 legacy Informatica/SSIS to Airflow + dbt + Fivetran.
65% FASTER REPORTINGSOX / GDPR15M+ TXN/DAY
JAN 2014
DEC 2016

PBG

ETL & DWH Engineer

  • Designed Data Vault 2.0 customer analytics warehouse consolidating 12+ SaaS platforms into Snowflake — 60% faster reporting.
  • Built real-time e-commerce pipelines capturing 2M+ events/day via AWS Lambda + Kinesis Firehose for personalization models.
  • Automated Terraform provisioning cutting environment setup from 3 days to 2 hours; migrated Talend/SSIS to Python + Airflow.
  • Delivered 25+ Power BI and Looker dashboards — drove 40% reduction in ad-hoc reporting requests.
DATA VAULT 2.060% FASTER3 DAYS → 2 HRS

MULTI-CLOUD EXPERTISE

Cloud Architecture />

AWS · Azure · GCP — designed and deployed across all three, with $2M+ in annual cost savings from FinOps optimization and auto-scaling strategies.

☁ AMAZON WEB SERVICES
S3 EMR Glue Kinesis SageMaker Lake Formation Lambda Redshift Athena ECS/EKS
PRIMARY USE CASE
12PB Databricks lakehouse · RAG pipelines · Flink CEP on EMR · $2M+ FinOps savings
🔷 MICROSOFT AZURE
Synapse ADLS Gen2 Fabric Purview AI Foundry AKS DevOps Event Hubs Defender
PRIMARY USE CASE
MS Fabric migrations · Purview governance · Fintech risk analytics · SOX compliance
🌐 GOOGLE CLOUD
BigQuery Dataflow Pub/Sub Vertex AI Dataform Dataproc Spanner Cloud CDK
PRIMARY USE CASE
BigQuery analytics · Vertex AI model serving · Dataflow streaming ETL
🧱
Databricks
Data Eng. Assoc.
🔷
MS Fabric
Data Eng. Assoc.
☁️
AWS Data Eng.
Associate
🏗️
AWS Well-Arch.
Framework
❄️
Snowflake
SnowPro Core

TECHNICAL ARSENAL

Skills />

// LANGUAGES

PythonSQLScalaJavaPySparkBashPowerShell

// CLOUD PLATFORMS

AWSAzureGCPS3/EMR/GlueSageMakerADLS Gen2BigQueryVertex AI

// LAKEHOUSE & BIG DATA

DatabricksDelta LakeApache IcebergApache HudiMS FabricSpark 3.4+ClickHouseTrino

// STREAMING & CDC

Apache KafkaApache FlinkDebezium CDCksqlDBKinesisEvent HubsPub/Sub

// ETL & ORCHESTRATION

dbtApache AirflowFivetranAirbyteADFDagsterPrefectAWS Glue

// AI / ML / MLOPS

LangChainLangGraphRAG SystemsMLflowHuggingFaceFAISSPineconeTensorFlow

// DATA WAREHOUSING

SnowflakeRedshiftAzure SynapseBigQueryData Vault 2.0KimballStar Schema

// DEVOPS & IaC

TerraformDockerKubernetesGitHub ActionsGitLab CIArgo CDHelmPrometheus

// GOVERNANCE & QUALITY

Unity CatalogMS PurviewCollibra MDMGreat ExpectationsMonte CarloDataHubOpenLineage

QUANTIFIED IMPACT

Results That Speak />

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Rearchitected PySpark workloads and introduced auto-scaling across the 12-petabyte lakehouse — full TCO analysis delivered directly to C-suite leadership.

$2M+
ANNUAL CLOUD SAVINGS · 40% COST REDUCTION
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Reduced domain team onboarding from 6 weeks to 48 hours, enabling 8 teams to independently publish 50+ self-serve data products under full HIPAA/HITRUST governance.

6 Wks → 48 Hrs
ONBOARDING TIME · DATA MESH ROLLOUT
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Reduced data incidents by 73% by integrating Great Expectations, Monte Carlo, and dbt tests into CI/CD pipelines — any schema drift or SLA breach automatically blocked deployment.

73%
INCIDENT REDUCTION · 200+ PRODUCTION PIPELINES
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Deployed Flink CEP engine achieving sub-3-second end-to-end latency — established as the standard streaming runtime for all time-sensitive clinical workloads across 150+ hospital networks.

44%
FEWER FALSE CLINICAL ALERTS · 500K+ EVENTS/HR

THE ENGINEER

About />

SaadAlamKhan.js
1class SaadAlamKhan {
2
3  // I build data at petabyte scale.
4
5  constructor() {
6    this.name = 'Saad Alam Khan'
7    this.location = 'Houston, Texas (TX)'
8    this.remote = 'Open to Remote (US)'
9    this.email = 'saadalamkhan690@gmail.com'
10    this.phone = '(425) 386-1522'
11  }
12
13  workExperience() {
14    return [
15      { '2023-now' : 'Data & Solution Architect @ ApTask' },
16      { '2020-22'  : 'Sr. Data Engineer @ Truveta, Inc.' },
17      { '2017-20'  : 'Cloud Data Engineer @ Banner Health' },
18      { '2014-16'  : 'ETL & DWH Engineer @ PBG' }
19    ]
20  }
21
22  certifications() {
23    return [
24      'Databricks Data Engineer Associate',
25      'Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate',
26      'AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate',
27      'AWS Well-Architected Framework',
28      'Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification'
29    ]
30  }
31}

// COMPLIANCE & SECURITY

HIPAA · HITRUST · SOX · GDPR · CPRA · HL7/FHIR. PHI/PII governance, RBAC, row-level security, column masking, audit logging, zero-trust architecture across all production systems.

// ARCHITECTURE

TOGAF · C4 Model · ADRs · Data Mesh · Medallion Architecture · Lambda & Kappa · Federated Governance · Domain-Driven Design · Event-Driven Architecture · Data Vault 2.0.

// CERTIFICATIONS

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate
AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate
AWS Well-Architected Framework
Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification

// LEADERSHIP

Mentored 6+ engineers across 4 time zones. Led Agile ceremonies for 2 distributed squads. Pre-sales scoping, SOW authoring, and C-suite stakeholder communication with TCO/ROI models.

Let's build
something at scale.

Open to senior data engineering and solution architecture roles. 12 years architecting petabyte-scale platforms that deliver $2M+ cloud savings and process 2.3M+ records daily.

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LOCATION

Houston, TX

AVAILABILITY

Remote (US)

WORK AUTH

Authorized · US

EXPERIENCE

12+ Years