Babak Tourani
Data Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorBabak Tourani is a Principal Data Engineer based in London with over a decade of experience designing resilient data platforms, pipelines, and secure data models across Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL and major cloud providers. He excels at marrying data modelling (Kimball/relational) with modern ELT/ETL practices, dbt, orchestration (Airflow/Prefect) and infrastructure-as-code to deliver reliable, cost-conscious analytics for finance, marketing and product teams. His work spans streaming and batch architectures—Kafka, Snowpark/Spark and Lambda—plus applied ML techniques such as in-database vector embeddings for SEO and recommendation features. A pragmatic security-minded engineer, he has led company-wide DB security audits and RBAC designs implemented via Terraform. Formerly a national basketball assistant coach and BBC Persian producer, he brings unusual cross-disciplinary communication and coaching skills to technical leadership and stakeholder collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
oracle-database8
dockerfile7
geoserver7
procedures7
geotools7
neo4j-database6
neo4j6
docker6
oracle6
spatial-data6
oracle-linux5
gis5
nosql4
graalvm4
postgis3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
babak4/OneMillionDocs
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:42 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
babak4/scripts
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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