GEORGE NYAMAO
Senior Cloud & Data Engineer
Carrollton,TX
Summary
Cloud and data engineering professional with 10+ years of enterprise experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP, spanning Citi, Wells Fargo, and Comcast. Proven track record designing data lake and lakehouse architectures, high-volume ETL/streaming pipelines, and compliant CI/CD workflows in regulated financial environments. Holds an unusually broad certification portfolio spanning cloud architecture, machine learning, data engineering, project management, and security - and has formalized a specialization in cloud security and cost optimization (FinOps) through CompTIA Security+ and Splunk Core Certified User credentials, plus hands-on labs in AWS GuardDuty, CloudWatch, IAM hardening, and NIST CSF / MITRE ATT&CK-aligned incident response.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
8
8
Certification
Work History
Independent Cloud & Data Engineering Consultant
Self-Directed Client Engagements
Carrollton, TX
01.2024 - Current
- Designed scalable data lake and lakehouse architectures on AWS and GCP, implementing IAM policies, encryption at rest, and least-privilege access control frameworks.
- Built real-time data ingestion and streaming pipelines using Kafka and Apache NiFi, with monitoring and alerting to detect anomalous data flows.
- Developed and optimized ETL workflows supporting business intelligence initiatives, ensuring data integrity and compliance with security standards.
- Architected an AWS data lakehouse modernization reference project (CDC via DMS, Apache Iceberg on S3, AWS Glue/PySpark, Lake Formation row-level security, Athena) demonstrating zero-trust networking and Gateway Endpoint cost optimization.
VP - Applications Development Technical Lead Analyst
Citi
Irving, TX
01.2023 - 01.2024
- Led the Data Concern and Remediation Management (DCRM) team, designing and deploying applications using Oracle SQL, Talend ETL, and AutoSys in a regulated financial environment.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket, TeamCity, and UrbanCode Deploy, enforcing code review and deployment security controls.
- Ensured compliance with regulatory standards and security protocols across all application deployments, maintaining audit-ready Confluence documentation.
Senior Software Engineer
Wells Fargo
Irving, TX
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Designed and implemented a high-volume data warehouse platform supporting quantitative analysis and machine learning applications using Python, Spark, and Hadoop.
- Created performance-tuned Teradata SQL queries for compliance-related data analytics supporting regulatory reporting.
- Developed a custom UI for DAG management with Django integration, improving pipeline visibility and operational monitoring.
AWS Big Data Analyst
Comcast (via Enhance IT)
Philadelphia, PA
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Ingested and processed large-scale subscriber data using Spark Streaming, Kafka, and AWS services including S3, Athena, Glue, Redshift, DynamoDB, and EMR.
- Developed and optimized Informatica ETL workflows interfacing with AWS Redshift and DynamoDB, supporting subscriber data processing and AML compliance.
- Automated workflows using AWS EventBridge and Lambda, reducing manual intervention and improving pipeline reliability and auditability.
Big Data Engineer
Enhance IT
Atlanta, GA
01.2020 - 01.2023
- Built data streaming solutions using Kafka and Spark Streaming, employing Informatica to transform streaming data for AML compliance teams.
- Developed automated workflows using Bash and Apache Airflow; deployed containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Ingested and processed data using Hadoop components, developing Spark applications and HiveQL queries for customer insights.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics and Computer Science
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Associate of Science - Computer Programming and Analysis
Florida SouthWestern State College
Cybersecurity Technical Training Program - undefined
Per Scholas
07.2026
Skills
- Cloud Architecture
- AWS
- S3
- Glue
- Athena
- Redshift
- EMR
- DynamoDB
- Lambda
- EventBridge
- IAM
- GuardDuty
- CloudWatch
- Azure
- GCP
- Data Engineering
- Apache Iceberg
- Spark
- Kafka
- Apache NiFi
- Airflow
- Hadoop
- HiveQL
- Informatica
- Teradata SQL
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Bitbucket
- TeamCity
- UrbanCode Deploy
- Security & Compliance
- IAM least-privilege design
- Encryption at rest
- NIST CSF
- MITRE ATT&CK
- CIS Controls
- AML/regulatory compliance
- Splunk
- Elastic
- ELK
- Wireshark
- Cost Optimization
- FinOps
- Cloud spend analysis
- Lifecycle policies
- Gateway Endpoint cost avoidance
- Resource rightsizing
Websites
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
- CompTIA Security+
- Splunk Core Certified User
- Project Management Professional (PMP) - PMI
- Snowflake for Developers, Data Scientists & Data Engineers - Coursera
- Google AI Essentials - Coursera
Cloud Security Projects
- Cloud Security Monitoring Lab, Built an AWS detection and response pipeline (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch alarms) with findings mapped to NIST CSF and MITRE ATT&CK, integrated into Splunk via Kinesis Firehose for threat-hunting dashboards.
- Cloud Secure CI/CD Pipeline, Designed a GitHub Actions pipeline with tfsec and Checkov security gates that blocks Terraform deployments containing public S3 buckets or unrestricted SSH access prior to provisioning.
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
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evening
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Timeline
Independent Cloud & Data Engineering Consultant
Self-Directed Client Engagements
01.2024 - Current
VP - Applications Development Technical Lead Analyst
Citi
01.2023 - 01.2024
Senior Software Engineer
Wells Fargo
01.2022 - 01.2023
AWS Big Data Analyst
Comcast (via Enhance IT)
01.2021 - 01.2023
Big Data Engineer
Enhance IT
01.2020 - 01.2023
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics and Computer Science
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Associate of Science - Computer Programming and Analysis
Florida SouthWestern State College
Cybersecurity Technical Training Program - undefined
Per Scholas