Data Architect · Builder · Creator

Syed Aqib
builds data platforms
and ships products.

Ten+ years architecting cloud data platforms on Google Cloud and Azure — and, after hours, shipping tools people actually use: a model-deprecation tracker, a text editor, an optical instrument, and a YouTube channel that teaches data.

■ service registry

Ventures — all systems live

SERVICES 4 STATUS ALL OPERATIONAL REGION bangalore-1
AI Model Graveyard — tombstone illustrations and live deprecation countdowns
Web · AI ToolingLIVE

AI Model Graveyard

Never get surprised by a retired model

A live tracker of AI models from every major lab — releases, deprecation countdowns, and the successor to migrate to before a pinned model ID breaks production. Hundreds of models, rebuilt daily.

NotepadX site — Your text. Every device. Never lost.
App · macOS / Windows / LinuxLIVE

NotepadX

A serious text editor, everywhere

A cross-platform text editor with infinite local version history, cross-device sync through your own cloud storage (no account), built-in AI, an Excalidraw canvas, and 100MB+ large-file handling.

PD Measure site — measure your pupillary distance, 100% private
Web · InstrumentLIVE

PD Measure

Built like an instrument, not a funnel

A free, privacy-first pupillary-distance tool for ordering glasses online — webcam, photo, or printable ruler, with confidence ranges. Everything runs locally; no images uploaded, no signup.

■ whoami

About

I'm a Data Architect at Deel (Roshn KSA), based in Bangalore, where I lead a team of seven building and running a Google Cloud data warehouse — medallion architecture on Cloud Storage and BigQuery, real-time and batch ingestion, and a platform tuned well enough to cut costs by 30%.

Before that: a decade across the Gulf and India's data scene — enterprise BI for Al Shaya, DAMAC Properties, and OSN, migrating on-premise warehouses to Azure and building the dashboards businesses actually run on.

These days the same instinct goes into products. If a tool should exist and doesn't, I build it — and teach what I learn along the way on Data Muallem.

Experience10+ yrs
Live products4
Team led7 devs
Cloud cost cut30%
■ stack trace

Skills

Google Cloud

BigQueryPub/SubCloud StorageCloud FunctionsMedallion architecture

Azure Data Platform

Data FactorySynapseDatabricksAnalysis ServicesLogic Apps

BI & Analytics

Power BIDAXMicrosoft FabricSSASDimensional modelling

Engineering & AI

PythonPySparkSQLClaude / GenAI appsNext.jsReact Native
■ pipeline history

Experience

2024 — PRESENT

Data Architect

Deel (Roshn KSA) · Bangalore

Leading a 7-developer team on a GCP data warehouse: medallion lakehouse on Cloud Storage + BigQuery, real-time / near-real-time / batch ingestion, SCD 1 & 2, enterprise cloud guidelines — 30% cost reduction.

2023 — 2024

Senior Data Engineer

Logic India (Al Shaya, Dubai) · Bangalore

Designed and supported enterprise data models, BI dashboards, KPI scorecards, and end-to-end ingestion and transformation across sources.

2020 — 2023

Senior Data Engineer

Dicetek · DAMAC Properties · Dubai

End-to-end data modelling, ingestion, and visualization on Azure — Data Factory, Synapse, tabular models, DAX, and Power BI at enterprise scale.

2018 — 2020

BI Developer

OSN (TASC Consulting) · Dubai

Migrated on-premise platforms to Azure: IBM Cognos to Power BI, Netezza and Oracle to Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

2018

Associate IT Consultant

ITC Infotech · Bangalore

ADF pipelines from on-premise SQL to Azure, SSAS memory profiling, and full-cycle DWH development on SQL Server 2016.

2014 — 2018

Systems Analyst

Sonata Software · Bangalore

Complete BI solutions: ETL back-ends, Azure Data Factory pipelines, and data visualization for customers.

2010 — 2014

B.E., Visvesvaraya Technological University

Education

■ open connection

Let's talk data — or products.

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