Ala Qabaja
Principal Data Engineer
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAla Qabaja is a Principal Data Engineer with eight years of experience architecting data platforms that enable business-driven decisions through BI, ETL, data engineering, and machine learning. Based in Calgary, she has delivered hybrid on-premise and cloud solutions across energy and enterprise software domains, rising from BI Developer to Principal at Atlassian. Her background in data mining (MSc) and bioinformatics gives her a strong foundation in statistical modeling and complex data workflows, which she applies to scalable production pipelines. Known for bridging hands-on implementation with platform-level design, she has led cloud data science and engineering efforts at ARC Resources before transitioning to strategic platform work at Atlassian. Colleagues value her ability to translate operational needs into automated, auditable data products that drive measurable outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Of Computer Science, Data Mining, Master's Of Computer Science, Data Mining at University of CalgaryBiotechnology/Bioinformatics, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at An-najah National University
Github Skills (8)
deploying3
azure3
databricks3
powershell3
data-science2
machine-learning2
python2
devops2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
puttak/DrillingProject
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Repo to track machine learning work on Oil and Gas drilling data
Contributions:7 commits in 11 days
pythondrillingdata-sciencemachine-learningoil-and-gas
AlaQabaja/dataeng-projects
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
data engineering projects
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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