Soyel Alam
Principal Data Engineer
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolSoyel Alam is a Principal Data Engineer based in Dublin with over a decade engaged in the data ecosystem and eight years of documented industry experience delivering production data platforms. He has held senior roles at Optum and Meta and helped build cloud and big data capabilities at Groupon, combining hands-on Python and Scala development with strong DevOps and data modeling skills. Soyel’s academic foundation—a master’s in data science from University College Dublin—complements practical domain expertise across advertising, e-commerce, telecom, call center analytics and healthcare. He excels at translating industry-specific requirements into scalable, auditable pipelines and architectures for analytical and operational use cases. Beyond engineering, Soyel’s background as a programming lab demonstrator and long tenure in enterprise data warehousing reflect a commitment to mentorship and durable, testable designs. His career shows a pattern of moving complex legacy systems into cloud-native, data-driven solutions at scale.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal formerly WBUTMaster's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at University College Dublin
Github Skills (9)
pipeline5
testing5
pyspark5
spark4
cicd2
data-pipeline2
dag1
airflow1
apache-airflow1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
soyelherein/pyspark-cicd-template
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
PySpark data-pipeline testing and CICD
Contributions:73 commits, 2 PRs, 54 pushes in 6 days
pipelinetestingsparkdata-pipelinepipeline-testing
soyelherein/soyelherein.github.io
Dec 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:12 PRs, 13 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 5 months
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