Summary
Babak 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
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Database Systems, MSc Database Systems at University of Westminster
BSc Telecommunications, BSc Telecommunications at Iran University of Science & Technology
English