Niall Langley
Principal Data Engineer Platform Architect (Contract)
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNiall Langley is a freelance Data Platform Consultant with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting scalable, secure data solutions—especially on Databricks and Spark—processing terabytes and billions of rows per day. He combines deep technical skills in ingestion, MLOps, DevOps and cost-performance optimisation with practical delivery experience across retail, finance, utilities and public-sector clients. Regularly engaged in the UK data community as an organiser and speaker, he also publishes practical tooling and patterns (for example metadata validation and Unity Catalog integrations) that speed development and improve governance. Known for finding tangible savings and turning unmanaged models into controlled, production-grade workflows, he excels at translating strategic platform direction into executable, auditable pipelines. Based in Greater Bristol, he is currently available for contract roles and advisory engagements.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electronic Systems Design, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electronic Systems Design at Bournemouth University
English
Github Skills (78)
procfwk10
azure-sql-database10
azure-data-factory10
powershell-module10
factory10
azure9
command-line-interface9
azure-cli9
azure-functions9
metadata9
publish9
azure-storage9
data-platform9
coupling9
cli8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NJLangley/Azure-Demos
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 years 11 months
dataplat/AzureDataPipelineTools
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
A collection of Azure Function to make building Azure Data Factory pipeline simpler and easier.
Contributions:1 release, 71 commits, 4 PRs in 6 months
datawarehousedata-factorypipelinefactorypipeline-framework
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