Nada Al‑Muteri

Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer (Denodo Specialist)

Riyadh, SA.

About

Result-driven Big Data Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Denodo data virtualization and high-performance data architectures within the FinTech sector. Proven track record of designing, deploying, and optimizing enterprise-grade Denodo clusters to unify disparate financial data streams, ensure real-time regulatory compliance, and eliminate data silos. Expert in scaling distributed big data environments, optimizing complex query execution, and reinforcing strict data governance models to support zero-downtime financial platforms.

Work

Fintech Financial Solutions

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Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer (Denodo Specialist)

Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Summary

Architecting and managing enterprise Denodo clusters and big data virtualization layers for real-time financial applications.

Highlights

Architected and managed a multi-cluster Denodo 8.0/9.0 environment, serving as the core data virtualization layer processing over 50M+ daily transactional API requests.

Spearheaded the integration of legacy core banking databases, cloud data lakes (Snowflake, AWS S3), and real-time Kafka streams into a unified logical data layer, reducing time-to-insight for financial analysts by 60%.

Designed and enforced advanced data governance models within Denodo, utilizing row-level security, dynamic data masking, and dynamic schema optimizations to achieve strict compliance with PCI-DSS and GDPR regulations.

Optimized complex federated queries across distributed environments, leveraging Denodo's Cost-Based Optimizer (CBO) and MPP acceleration via Presto, which reduced reporting latency by 45%.

Automated Denodo deployment pipelines, cluster provisioning, and metadata migrations using Solution Manager, Terraform, and Jenkins, increasing infrastructure deployment speed by 40%.

Financial Services Corp

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Big Data Infrastructure Engineer

Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Summary

Maintained and scaled large-scale enterprise Hadoop/Spark clusters and Denodo virtualization platforms.

Highlights

Maintained, monitored, and scaled a large-scale enterprise Hadoop/Spark cluster alongside a dedicated Denodo infrastructure, ensuring 99.99% uptime for critical fraud detection models.

Configured and tuned Denodo VDP memory management, cache administration (using PostgreSQL as a cache database), and connection pooling to seamlessly support concurrent trading applications.

Implemented Kerberos authentication and SSL/TLS encryption across all Denodo execution nodes and underlying big data sources to secure high-value financial assets.

Partnered with DevOps teams to containerize Denodo components using Docker and Kubernetes, paving the way for a cloud-native hybrid data infrastructure.

Resolved critical performance bottlenecks in data pipelines and analytical workflows by configuring Denodo smart caching policies and optimizing physical database indices.

Education

Majmaah University

Al Majma'ah, , Saudi Arabia
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Bachelor of Science Computer Science / Data Engineering

Courses

Data Ingestion, Anomaly Detection & Feature Engineering

Big Data Virtualization & Snowflake Integration

Distributed Data Processing with Scala & Spark

Skills

Data Virtualization

Denodo Platform (8.0/9.0), Virtual Data Port (VDP), Denodo Scheduler, Solution Manager, Information Self-Service, Custom Wrappers.

Big Data Ecosystem

Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka, Presto/Trino, Delta Lake.

Cloud Platforms

AWS (EMR, S3, RDS, Athena, IAM), Azure (Synapse, Databricks).

Databases & Storage

PostgreSQL, Oracle, Snowflake, MongoDB, Cassandra.

DevOps & Infrastructure

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Linux Shell Scripting.

Data Governance & Security

Apache Ranger, Kerberos, SSL/TLS, OAuth, Data Masking, Row/Column Level Security, GDPR/PCI-DSS Compliance.

Certificates

Denodo Certified Developer / Architect

Denodo Technologies

AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate / Specialty

Amazon Web Services

Cloudera Certified Administrator / Databricks Certified Professional

Cloudera / Databricks