data platform engineering

At Alter Domus I design and build the pipelines that turn raw financial data into decisions — Python, SQL, AWS, Databricks, dbt, and Airflow. Based in Houston, Texas.

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Portrait of Hani Al Naber
the human behind the papers · houston, tx · utc−6
2010 — present · drawn to scale

Career path

2010

B.Sc. Nuclear Engineering

Jordan University of Science & Technology

Where the systems thinking started — reactors, rigor, and a lot of mathematics.

2014

Engineering Trainee

Jordan Atomic Energy Commission

Environmental radioactivity & radiochemistry — a first taste of real-world data discipline.

2015

B.Sc. completed

Nuclear Engineering, JUST

Engineering fundamentals, locked in.

2022

The pivot — M.S. Business Analytics

University of Houston, Bauer College

From nuclear systems to data systems.

2022

Instructional Assistant

University of Houston

Mentored 300+ students in predictive analytics and business principles.

2023

M.S. completed — 4.0 GPA

Outstanding MS Student Award · Dean’s Award

Perfect GPA, plus two merit scholarships along the way.

2024

Data Engineer Intern

Alter Domus

Onboarded onto a production AWS data platform — dbt models, Airflow DAGs, Athena SQL.

2025

Associate Data Engineer

Alter Domus

Independently owning end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines across the financial data platform.

2026

Data Engineer I

Alter Domus — present

Cut pipeline runtimes by up to 60%. Driving DataOps maturity, CI/CD, and AI-assisted engineering.

3 organizations · detail view

Selected work

Alter Domus↗United States

Data Engineer I

March 2026 - PresentFull-time
  • Reduced pipeline execution time by up to 60% by optimizing critical ETL/ELT workloads across AWS, Databricks, dbt, and Airflow through SQL tuning, DAG refactoring, Airbyte incremental syncs, and parallelism improvements
  • Drive end-to-end delivery of high-impact data pipelines on the financial data platform, expanding scope across AWS Athena, MWAA, Airbyte, Databricks, and PostgreSQL
  • Partner directly with business and product stakeholders to elicit requirements and translate them into reliable data products, using AI agents (Amazon Q Developer, Claude Code, Databricks Genie) and MCP-based tooling to accelerate requirement discovery, data exploration, and execution
  • Advance DataOps and DevOps maturity through GitHub Actions CI/CD, Terraform-managed infrastructure, automated dbt tests, and SLAs on Airflow pipelines, raising platform reliability and deployment velocity
  • Own cross-functional delivery within Agile (Jira, GitHub) and present technical solutions in engineering reviews, increasing visibility of data platform work across analytics, product, and DevOps partners
PythonSQLAWSdbtApache AirflowAirbyteDatabricksPostgreSQLTerraformGitHub ActionsJiraAmazon QClaude CodeDatabricks GenieMCPDataOpsDevOps

Associate Data Engineer

June 2025 - March 2026Full-time
  • Independently owned end-to-end ETL/ELT pipeline development across multiple source systems, shipping production-grade Python, SQL, and dbt code on the AWS and Databricks data platform
  • Expanded ingestion coverage by building and maintaining Airbyte and Airflow pipelines on AWS MWAA, onboarding new data sources and reducing manual data wrangling for downstream analysts
  • Developed and tuned dbt models and complex SQL transformations against AWS Athena, Databricks, and PostgreSQL, improving data quality and query performance for financial reporting use cases
  • Partnered directly with analysts and business stakeholders to translate requirements into data models, using AI copilots (Amazon Q Developer, Claude Code, Databricks Genie) to rapidly prototype, refactor, and harden pipeline logic
  • Strengthened DataOps practices through GitHub-based CI/CD, peer code reviews, automated dbt tests, and Airflow observability, increasing release confidence and deployment cadence
  • Contributed to sprint planning and cross-team design discussions in Jira, growing visibility across engineering, analytics, and DevOps partners
PythonSQLAWSdbtApache AirflowAirbyteDatabricksPostgreSQLTerraformGitHubJiraAmazon QClaude CodeDatabricks GenieDataOps

Data Engineer Intern

March 2024 - June 2025Internship
  • Ramped up on the financial data platform architecture, learning internal data models and ETL/ELT patterns across the AWS-based modern data stack
  • Built and tested initial dbt models and Python-based pipeline components under senior engineer mentorship, contributing to production releases
  • Wrote and optimized SQL queries for data validation and exploratory analysis on AWS Athena, Databricks, and PostgreSQL
  • Assisted in deploying and monitoring Apache Airflow DAGs on AWS MWAA and configuring Airbyte connectors, gaining hands-on cloud orchestration experience
  • Leveraged AI assistants (Amazon Q Developer, Claude Code) to accelerate onboarding, understand legacy code, and translate business requirements into working pipeline components
  • Participated in Agile ceremonies and contributed to sprint deliverables using Jira and GitHub workflows
PythonSQLAWSdbtApache AirflowAirbytePostgreSQLGitHubJiraAmazon QClaude Code
University of Houston↗Houston, Texas

Instructional Assistant

September 2022 - December 2023Part-time
  • Mentored and supported over 300 graduate and undergraduate students in technical subjects including Predictive Analytics and Business principles
  • Clarified complex analytical concepts and translated technical material into understandable content
  • Assisted faculty in developing and grading assignments, gaining deep exposure to practical application of data analytics and machine learning methodologies
Predictive AnalyticsMachine LearningBusiness AnalyticsData Science
Jordan Atomic Energy Commission↗Amman, Jordan

Engineering Trainee

June 2014 - September 2014Training
  • Completed comprehensive training in environmental radioactivity and radiochemistry
  • Gained foundational knowledge in nuclear engineering applications and safety protocols
RadioactivityRadiochemistryNuclear SafetyResearch
production stack · annotated

Toolchain

Programming Languages
  • PythonData pipelines, automation, scripting
  • SQLComplex queries, optimization, analytics
  • RStatistical analysis, data visualization
  • TerraformInfrastructure as code, cloud provisioning
Cloud & Data Platforms
  • AWSS3, Lambda, Athena, MWAA, Glue
  • Apache AirflowWorkflow orchestration, DAGs
  • dbtData transformation, modeling
  • DatabricksUnified analytics, Spark
  • AirbyteData ingestion, ELT connectors
AI & DataOps
  • Amazon Q DeveloperAI-assisted coding on AWS
  • Claude CodeAgentic AI development workflow
  • Databricks GenieNatural-language data exploration
  • MCPModel Context Protocol integrations
  • GitHub ActionsCI/CD pipelines, automation
  • JiraAgile planning, sprint delivery
Analytics & ML
  • Predictive AnalyticsForecasting, trend analysis
  • Machine LearningModel development, training
  • Data VisualizationDashboards, storytelling
  • Business AnalyticsKPIs, insights, reporting
full working set — 23 tools
PythonSQLRTerraformAWSApache AirflowdbtDatabricksAirbytePostgreSQLGitGitHub ActionsJiraDockerLinuxPandasNumPyScikit-learnPySparkAmazon QClaude CodeDatabricks GenieMCP
3 degrees · 7 certifications

Education & credentials

Master of Science in Business Analytics

University of Houston · Houston, Texas
January 2022 - December 2023GPA 4.0/4.0
  • Perfect 4.0 GPA
  • Outstanding MS in Business Analytics Student Award
  • Dean's Award
  • Glen and Barbara Farber Bauer Excellence Scholarship
  • Marvy Finger Family GPP Recruitment Scholarship
  • Instructional Assistant Position
Predictive AnalyticsMachine LearningData MiningBusiness AnalyticsStatistical AnalysisData Visualization

Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering

Jordan University of Science and Technology · Jordan
September 2010 - June 2015
  • Nuclear Engineering Specialization
  • Engineering Trainee at Jordan Atomic Energy Commission
  • Research in Nuclear Simulation Technologies
Nuclear PhysicsReactor EngineeringRadiation ProtectionNuclear MaterialsThermodynamicsFluid DynamicsStatistics and ProbabilityEngineering Mathematics

High School Diploma - Science Stream

Al-Manara Private School · Abu Dhabi, UAE
September 2009 - June 2010GPA 96.7/100
  • Science Stream Graduate
  • Top Academic Performance
  • College Preparatory Program
MathematicsPhysicsChemistryBiologyScience Research
certifications — all verifiable
Databricks FundamentalsDatabricks↗dbt Fundamentalsdbt Labs↗Google Data Analytics CertificateGoogle↗Google IT Support Professional CertificateGoogle↗IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional CertificateIBM↗AWS Generative AI ApplicationsAWS↗Corporate Financial Statement AnalysisLinkedIn Learning↗
open to interesting problems

Contact

hanialnaber@gmail.com
Phone+1 (346) 504-0168↗LocationHouston, Texas, USA↗LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/hanialnaber↗GitHubgithub.com/hanialnaber↗Résuméresume.pdf↓

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