Tafseer Khan
Data Engineer II
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTafseer Khan is a Data Engineer II based in Indianapolis with 5+ years building scalable data platforms and ETL pipelines, currently architecting a Trino-based distributed Lakehouse for Corteva’s R&D organization. He blends big-data engineering (Azure, Databricks, Spark, dbt, Dagster) with practical performance tuning—delivering petabyte-scale federated queries, cutting processing times by ~80%, and replacing costly SAS workflows. His work emphasizes data lineage, accessibility, and integrations across BI tools to accelerate scientists’ productivity and streamline ML data access. With a background in MS Information Management and hands-on experience converting legacy Fortran workflows to Python, he brings both academic rigor and pragmatic engineering to complex data problems. Outside core analytics stacks, he codes in Go and explores backend and Web3 tooling, reflecting a curiosity for low-level systems and emerging architectures.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science , Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster of Science - MS Information Management, Master of Science - MS Information Management at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (28)
5g10
cloud-computing10
cdn10
distributed-systems10
ai10
serverless10
webassembly10
paas10
p2p9
cloud-native9
devtools7
edge-computing6
golang5
wasi5
go4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
taubyte/utils
Dec 2022 - Sep 2023
Assortment of golang utilities
Contributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 16 PRs in 9 months
taubyte/go-specs
Feb 2023 - Sep 2023
golang implementation of Taubyte Specs
Contributions:9 releases, 5 reviews, 17 PRs in 7 months
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