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Abdulhakeem – SQL, Python, Machine learning, experts in Lemon.io

Abdulhakeem

From Germany (UTC+2)flag

Data Engineer|Senior
Data Analyst|Senior
AI Engineer|Senior
Team lead
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6
projects done
2700
hours worked
1
ongoing project

Abdulhakeem – SQL, Python, Machine learning

Abdulhakeem has a lifelong passion for numbers and discovering insightful patterns within them. Although he started as a Data Engineer, Abdulhakeem has now grown into a senior AI engineer who can bridge data systems and LLM integration. He's adept at tackling projects of any complexity and would excel in roles ranging from engineering to solution architecture and team leading. Additionally, he is well-versed in cloud solutions like AWS and GCP. Despite his extensive experience in tech, Abdulhakeem also finds joy in music and has recorded his own tracks in the past.

12 years of commercial experience in
Adtech
Advertising
Banking
Data analytics
E-commerce
Environmental services
Fashion
Fintech
Healthcare
Healthtech
Machine learning
Marketing
Music and audio
Marketplace
SaaS
Main technologies
SQL
10 years
Python
10 years
Machine learning
4.5 years
AWS
6 years
LLM
3 years
OpenAI
2 years
AI
3 years
Additional skills
NumPy
Deep Learning
Pandas
scikit-learn
GCP
Tensorflow
Data Science
Big Data
DBT
Looker
Databricks
Data Warehouse
PostgreSQL
Docker
LangChain
PyTorch
MySQL
NLP
MLOps
LLaMA
Claude LLM
Rewards and achievements
Client's favourite
Testimonials
#16011225110Senior Data Engineer, GCP, AWS, BigQuery

"During his time working with us, Yaqoob consistently demonstrated a rare combination of deep technical knowledge, systems-level thinking, and strong execution.

Yaqoob was instrumental in reducing our cloud infrastructure costs by over 50%, an achievement that directly impacted our bottom line and scalability. He accomplished this by deeply analyzing our architecture and optimizing our use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, eliminating inefficiencies while redesigning key workflows for greater speed and automation.

Beyond cost savings, Yaqoob restructured and streamlined several internal processes tied to our data pipelines and deployment strategy. His enhancements led to significantly improved efficiency, traceability, and reliability across our engineering workflows. In addition, Yaqoob played a lead role in developing AI-powered tools that allowed us to strip lyrics from songs at scale, a core functionality of our music technology platform. His solutions demonstrated not only his fluency with machine learning frameworks but also his ability to engineer performant systems capable of handling large volumes of audio data reliably and in real time.

Yaqoob consistently brought a proactive, solution-oriented mindset to every challenge. He collaborates well across disciplines, communicates clearly, and is never afraid to challenge assumptions in the pursuit of a better outcome. In short, Yaqoob made a measurable and lasting impact on our business, and I have no doubt he’ll do the same wherever he goes. I wholeheartedly recommend him without reservation."

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Experience Highlights

Senior Data Platform Engineer
Jul 2025 - Nov 20253 months
Project Overview

The company's team is best-in-class across drug selection, drug development, and tech.

Responsibilities:
  • Optimized and stabilized a complex CI/CD workflow supporting Dagster-based ELT and ETL pipelines, improving deployment reliability and developer productivity;
  • Resolved Snowflake MFA and authentication issues, reducing access friction and improving platform security and operational continuity;
  • Designed and implemented Snowflake roles, security policies, and external integrations using Terraform, enabling consistent and scalable infrastructure-as-code practices;
  • Refactored, optimized, and extended multiple production data pipelines, improving performance, maintainability, and data quality across the platform.
Project Tech stack:
Snowflake
Dagster
Claude LLM
Neo4j
GitHub
AI Engineer
Dec 2024 - Apr 20254 months
Project Overview

A custom CRM for outsource staff to log their hours and many of their administration-related tasks via Teams.

Responsibilities:
  • Increased staff engagement and management productivity across company.
Project Tech stack:
Python
LLM
OpenAI
JavaScript
React
LangChain
LangGraph
Senior Data & AI Engineer
Jul 2023 - Feb 20251 year 7 months
Project Overview

Abdulhakeem worked on building the dwh and data pipelines, implementing and deploying an AI dynamic pricing and marketing project, and achieving a staggering 189% year-on-year growth in digital channel revenue.

Responsibilities:
  • Built Consistent Data Pipelines Using Dbt;
  • Led the development of an AI-driven dynamic pricing and marketing system;
  • Spearheaded the integration of advanced algorithms to optimize pricing strategies;
  • Achieved 189% year-on-year growth in digital channel revenue;
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams to ensure seamless implementation;
  • Monitored and fine-tuned the AI pipelines for continuous improvement;
  • Deployed and served models;
  • Analyzed data and provided actionable insights to drive revenue growth.
Project Tech stack:
Microsoft Azure
Python
PyTorch
Tensorflow
LangChain
Machine learning
Vertex AI
GCP
OpenAI
React Native
Data and AI Engineer
Dec 2023 - Jun 20245 months
Project Overview

This platform helps artists distribute their music, connect with fans, and collect royalties.

Responsibilities:
  • Redesigned data warehouse, reducing cost by 76% by refactoring;
  • Built and deployed a music transcription model;
  • Increased engagement metrics of companies' songs on the music transcription services by 12pp.
Project Tech stack:
LLM
Python
GCP
Firebase
Senior Data Engineer
Nov 2022 - Nov 20231 year
Project Overview

The first Connected TV, measuring & managing platform designed to combine the impact of TV with the performance of digital advertising.

Responsibilities:
  • Built Data Pipelines for a couple of marketing metrics;
  • Integrated Data from Different source;
  • Exposed Data into Looker;
  • Aligned with different stakeholders to collect multiple requirements.
Project Tech stack:
SQL
Looker
Python
Senior Data Engineer
Nov 2021 - Nov 20221 year
Project Overview

Mexican digital financial services platform allows users to manage their money in a secure and personalized way from their smartphone. As a Data Engineer, Abdulhakeem was recruited to collaborate with business stakeholders making the data available to them and matching their business realities.

Responsibilities:
  • Refactored existing data pipelines;
  • Maintained and onboarded employees to DBT;
  • Built new Data pipelines to help businesses solve problems;
  • Defined and streamlined workflow processes.
Project Tech stack:
AWS
Python
SQL
Redshift
Apache Airflow
Jira
Freelance Data Scientist
Apr 2021 - Nov 20217 months
Project Overview

Abdulhakeem's involvement with the product was on a freelance project which involved work aimed at helping the leading e-commerce marketplace (under NDA) understand its customers better and build machine learning models to proactively cluster the customers and upsell them.

Responsibilities:
  • Supported the product in a remote role as a Data Scientist;
  • Built a Customer Clustering model that helped predict churning and active customers
  • Mined the Process of Shopping on an e-commerce shop, thereby providing the stakeholders with insight that helps change presumptions and improve the website design and marketing strategies.
Project Tech stack:
Python
NumPy
Tensorflow
Apache Airflow
Deep Learning
SQL
AWS
Data Analytics Engineer
Sep 2019 - Mar 20211 year 6 months
Project Overview

Leading Fashion Marketplace in Europe. Abdulhakeem was brought into one of the operations teams to redesign its reporting layer with a focus on the availability of data.

Responsibilities:
  • Collaborated with business stakeholders to understand their Data needs for different project roadmaps Refactored and Redesigned existing data pipelines to ensure 3x higher performance per model;
  • Built new data pipelines for new data sources;
  • Improved Data Quality & Availability;
  • Applied machine learning concepts in building a 90% accurate model for capacity planning thereby leading to a 50% reduction in cost per assortment production.
Project Tech stack:
AWS
Python
DBT
Redshift
Tensorflow
Machine learning
SQL
Apache Airflow
BigQuery
GCP
Data Analyst
Mar 2014 - Mar 20184 years
Project Overview

The largest bank in West Africa. Abdulhakeem was one of the first Data Analysts in the Bank and joined the team created for building the bank's data warehouse.

Responsibilities:
  • Applied knowledge of data modeling and statistical analysis to note trends and draw conclusions;
  • Developed Tableau Dashboards with marketing metrics used to determine inefficiencies, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
  • Tracked, analyzed, and interpreted trends in operational data using Python;
  • Gathered, organized, and input information into a digital database;
  • Generated reports detailing findings and recommendations.
Project Tech stack:
SQL
Tableau
Python

Education

2011
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bachelor's

Languages

English
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