
Adil Baig
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Engineer and Developer
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Toptal member since June 24, 2024
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
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
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
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.
Senior Data Specialist
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.
Senior ETL Developer II
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.
Senior Technical Designer
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.
Experience
Asset 360 Command Center
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-statusAs 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
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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