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Warsaw, Poland · Principal Data Engineer

Alparslan
Erol.

I design and build scalable data platforms, cloud systems, and AI-native engineering workflows.

SOURCESEVENTSAPISINGESTIONAirflow · Glue · ADFLAKEHOUSEDatabricks · SnowflakeDATAProductsBIAIQUALITY

A simplified view of how I think about production data systems.

7+
years engineering
20+
countries enabled
50+
production pipelines
5TB+
data / month
01 · Selected work

Systems, not screenshots.

The strongest parts of my portfolio are the systems I helped design, scale, and make reliable.

01
Global data product · PepsiCo

sDNA — Store DNA

Technical lead for the next generation sDNA platform, architecting automated and configurable data pipelines and enabling onboarding across 20+ countries.

DatabricksUnity CatalogLakeflowAzurePythonSQL
20+ countries
02
Global analytics platform · PepsiCo

ROI Engine

Scaled production data engineering across 20+ sources and international markets, with automation focused on reliability, onboarding, and data quality.

SnowflakeAirflowdbtPythonData Quality
80% fewer failures
03
Industrial analytics · Volvo Group

Predictive Data Platform

Engineered large-scale data pipelines and optimized Databricks Spark workloads, supporting predictive analytics on more than 5TB of monthly data.

DatabricksSparkAzurePredictive Analytics
60% faster processing
02 · Engineering lens

Data × Cloud × AI.

My current focus is where modern data-platform engineering meets AI: reliable foundations, governed data, and workflows that make engineers and users more effective.

Data Platforms
Lakehouse & warehouse architecture

ETL/ELT, orchestration, modeling, governance, contracts, data products.

AI × Engineering
AI-native development workflows

LLMs, MCP, RAG, LangGraph, semantic search, AI assistants, AI-to-BI.

Cloud
AWS · Azure · GCP

Serverless, Kubernetes, containers, IaC, CI/CD, platform engineering.

Reliability
Quality by design

Testing, observability, data quality monitors, contracts, automation.

PythonSQLDatabricksSnowflakeSparkAirflowdbtAWSAzureGCPDockerKubernetesTerraformLLMMCPRAGLangGraph
03 · Career

Built across industries.

From manufacturing and cybersecurity to global consumer data products, each role has added another layer to how I design systems.

2025—now
PepsiCo
Principal Data Engineer
2022—2025
PepsiCo
Senior Data Engineer
2022
VOLVO
Volvo Group
Data Engineer
2021—2022
EY
EY GDS
Data Engineer / Consultant
2021
3M
3M
Data Engineer
2020—2021
F-S
F-Secure
Junior Data Scientist
2019—2020
Daimler Truck
ADAS Software Data Engineer
2019
BOSCH
Bosch
Data Science Working Student
04 · About

Engineer first.
Curious always.

I am a Principal Data Engineer based in Warsaw, focused on building reliable data platforms and helping teams move from pipelines toward reusable data products.

My background spans data engineering, software development, machine learning, cloud systems, and applied AI.

I studied Data Science and Business Analytics at the University of Warsaw, Computer Science at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, and Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Boğaziçi University.

05 · Contact

Let’s build something useful.

For professional conversations, collaboration, or technical discussions, the best places to find me are LinkedIn and GitHub.