Summary
Atam Singh is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building data platforms, ETL pipelines, and full-stack applications, currently leading technical efforts at Aida Consulting Solutions after a multi-year tenure at Shopify. He specializes in moving raw data to actionable insights at scale—designing a data lake that improved availability and quality for over 1.7 million merchants and speeding ETL jobs processing tens of millions of rows per hour. Comfortable across cloud infrastructure, PySpark/Spark, Scala, Golang and JavaScript/React, he blends data engineering rigor with product-facing visualization and observability tooling. He has experience driving cross-organizational initiatives—from CCPA compliance for petabytes of data to SOX-compliant financial reporting—and has interviewed and mentored dozens of hires. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Atam pairs deep technical execution with an appetite for hacking on cool side projects and simple developer-facing tools that amplify team productivity. Based in Ottawa, he brings a rare mix of hands-on implementation and people leadership across both government and high-growth commerce platforms.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Kipling Collegiate Institute
Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) Computer Software Engineering Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) Computer Software Engineering Minor in Mathematics at Carleton University
Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, English