Adil Baig, Developer in Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Adil Baig

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Data Engineer and Developer

Los Angeles, CA, United States

Toptal member since June 24, 2024

Bio

Adil has 18+ years of software and data engineering experience. He specialized in Java, C#, and ASP.NET in the mid-2000s and transitioned to on-premise data engineering in the mid-2010s, working with Oracle, MS SQL, Informatica, IBM DataStage and QualityStage, and Talend. Adil also worked on big data on AWS cloud for three years before transitioning to Palantir Foundry for full-stack value stream delivery in the last six years.

Portfolio

Southern California Edison
Palantir, Python 3, PySpark, Pandas, GeoPandas, NumPy, JavaScript, TypeScript...
Rio Tinto
Palantir, Python 3, PySpark, Pandas, GeoPandas, NumPy, HTML, JavaScript...
Abbott Laboratories
Informatica ETL, IBM InfoSphere (DataStage), Python, T-SQL (Transact-SQL)...

Experience

  • SQL - 20 years
  • Ubuntu Linux - 10 years
  • Python 3 - 8 years
  • PostgreSQL - 7 years
  • TOGAF - 6 years
  • ArchiMate - 6 years
  • Palantir - 6 years
  • TypeScript - 5 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Ubuntu Linux, Windows, Palantir

The most amazing...

...thing I've done is save Rio Tinto over $20 million by improving asset health monitoring and preemptive asset maintenance tactics.

Work Experience

Senior Advisory Data Engineer

2023 - PRESENT
Southern California Edison
  • Engaged as a lead developer on Palantir's poster child project—the public safety power shutoff and wildfire mitigation program initiatives of utilities in Southern California—saving billions in property damage and lives in the event of a wildfire.
  • Led a team of junior engineers and oversaw product backlogs. Dove headfirst into solving the most challenging problems on Palantir Foundry, such as ingestion cadence and complex API ingestion problems.
  • Saved the company millions by creating the most critical dashboards and workflow products, making some of the most bottlenecked projects and blind spots apparent to the business.
Technologies: Palantir, Python 3, PySpark, Pandas, GeoPandas, NumPy, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, Low-code Development, No-code Development, Data Health, Data Lineage, Python

Senior Data Specialist

2019 - 2023
Rio Tinto
  • Developed an Asset 360 command center for all the assets in refineries, surfacing blind spots in reliability engineering like never before, saving over $20 million in the first year of implementation.
  • Built a dynamic lineout tool to mitigate our packing docks' COVID-19 logistics crisis. Shuffled order and packing priorities to replace the SAP work orders workflow, reducing cadence from weekly to hourly and saving $100 million in potential fallout.
  • Helped the refinery's MD in hiring a team of junior developers, led an engineering team, oversaw backlogs, and coached junior developers in Agile.
Technologies: Palantir, Python 3, PySpark, Pandas, GeoPandas, NumPy, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, Time Series Data, OSIsoft PI, Python

Senior ETL Developer II

2010 - 2019
Abbott Laboratories
  • Led a team of three engineers offshore for an ecosystem of 2,000+ ETL jobs in Informatica and IBM InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage.
  • Initiated the cloud migration to AWS and Salesforce and was the first to access Palantir Foundry.
  • Engaged as the earliest adopter and one of the first data engineers in the cloud migration initiative.
Technologies: Informatica ETL, IBM InfoSphere (DataStage), Python, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), PL/SQL

Senior Technical Designer

2006 - 2015
Patni Computer Systems
  • Worked on various Java middleware as well as JSP front-end projects and ASP.NET projects for various domains: FMGC, banking, manufacturing, healthcare, etc.
  • Worked with the development team, as well as a technical leader, to create enterprise-scale full-stack operational OLTP projects for various industries.
  • Oversaw entire modules and led smaller technical teams of graduate engineers.
  • Published various reusable widgets and custom controls that could be used in Java servlet and ASP.NET server-side controls.
Technologies: Java, .NET 3, ASP.NET MVC 2, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2015, XML, SOAP, REST, Eclipse IDE, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS), AWS Glue, Amazon EMR Studio, Redshift

Experience

Asset 360 Command Center

Set the precedence by surfacing the depth and breadth of information around the refinery's 20,000+ programmable logic controllers and sensors unlike anything before.

The command center can drill down recursively to one of the 20,000 assets effortlessly, enabling accessibility of all information around each asset, including:

• Near-real-time sensor data from Historian
• P1, P2, or P3 work order data from SAP
• Punch card data of all operators who've worked on the asset
• Asset bills of materials status
• Vendor requisition data through SAP Procurement

A bonus feature of ML-modeled asset maintenance tactics recommendations was later added, completing the asset health profile.

California Wildfire Mitigation Program

https://www.sce.com/outage-center/check-outage-status
Utilities in California, including Southern California Edison (LA and Orange), Pacific Gas & Electric (SFO and Bay Area), and San Diego Gas & Electric (San Diego), are all using Palantir Foundry for their CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) mandated Wildfire Mitigation Program (WMP) and Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) programs.

As part of the deliverable, we built a massive enterprise scale workflow in a scale of dozens of workshops and dashboards, bringing in petabytes worth of data and performing highly complex high-speed incremental data transformations, resulting in dozens of workshops or dashboards as the end product that together forms the PSPS and WMP program execution.

Education

2002 - 2006

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

University of Mumbai - Mumbai, MH, India

Skills

Libraries/APIs

PySpark, Pandas, React, NumPy, GraphQL API

Tools

ArchiMate, Informatica ETL, IBM InfoSphere (DataStage), AWS Glue, Collibra, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2015, Eclipse IDE, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)

Languages

Python 3, TypeScript, Python, YAML, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), Java 7, UML, Java, XML

Frameworks

TOGAF, ASP.NET, .NET, .NET 3, ASP.NET MVC 2

Paradigms

Low-code Development, REST

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), JSON, PostgreSQL, PL/SQL, Neo4j, Graph Databases, MongoDB, Redshift

Platforms

Databricks, Ubuntu Linux, Windows, Gephi

Other

Palantir, GeoPandas, No-code Development, Data Lineage, Foundry, Azure Databricks, Amazon EMR Studio, Data Health, Time Series Data, OSIsoft PI, APIs, History, polars, SOAP

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