Kian Sheik
Lead Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKian Sheik is a Lead Data Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience designing and operating production data lakes, ETL pipelines, and ML-ready datasets. He joined ReferralExchange as the company’s first data engineer and now manages the Data Engineering team while owning infrastructure-as-code, cost optimization, and security for company-wide systems. Kian blends hands-on data engineering—integrating Celery with Athena and ECS and building agent-clustering for deduplication—with DevOps leadership, having migrated EC2 workloads to autoscaling ECS and saved over $200k annually. He has a background in scraping and unconventional data acquisition from roles at RootProject and built performance-optimized analytics tooling during an Oracle internship. Pragmatic and system-minded, he’s equally comfortable recruiting engineers and diving into production incidents to restore service.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Data Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Data Science at University of San FranciscoHigh School Diploma, General Education, focus in Computer Science & Robotics, High School Diploma, General Education, focus in Computer Science & Robotics at Canyon Crest Academy
Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, tupi antigo, Persian, English
Stackoverflow
29reputation
1kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (62)
choices9
card-reader9
skeleton9
filesaver9
webcam8
feature-detection8
web-application7
computer-vision6
dom-manipulation6
go6
api6
dom6
css6
opencv6
reader6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kiansheik/10-minute-mail
Aug 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
kiansheik/nhe-enga
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Digital Version of Tupi Dictionary by Eduardo Navarro
Contributions:1 review, 11 PRs, 400 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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