10 data engineering consultants
Need a warehouse moved off Oracle or SQL Server, a first Databricks or Snowflake build, or a Kafka and Flink pipeline? These data engineering consultants name those stacks in their own work, and two of them, Andrii Shtelmakh (CIO at three companies) and Rodney Williams (Data Engineering Manager at Carters Inc. from 2015 to 2025), held in-house leadership titles before their current consulting roles, which helps when deciding what to hand an outside team and what to keep.
Professionals to explore
Andrii Shtelmakh
LinkedInExperience: Senior Data Engineer & Data Platform Consultant · Independent Consultant
Streaming platforms are the focus for Andrii Shtelmakh, Senior Data Engineer & Data Platform Consultant as an Independent Consultant since 2023, working with Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Apache Iceberg and SQL Server and citing 25+ years in enterprise IT. Earlier, Andrii was CIO at PJSC TAS Insurance Group (2003–2008), Insurance Company PROVIDNA (2008–2019) and Oranta (2019–2023), a fit for streaming platform questions from a buyer's point of view.
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Lakshminarayanan Ravindran
LinkedInExperience: Former Lead Data Engineering Consultant · Stretch Beyond AB
A Certified Databricks Platform Architect working with Azure, Databricks and Data Vault 2.0, Lakshminarayanan Ravindran became Lead Data Engineering Consultant at Stretch Beyond AB in 2026 and was Senior Data Engineer DW Specialist at Lowell (2018–2026), describing work moving Nordic enterprises off legacy systems. Ravindran was also Data Scientist at Lindorff (2017–2018).
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Manikanta Paluri
LinkedInExperience: Founder and Lead Data Engineering Consultant · M&N Data Solutions
Data platform modernization with AWS, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Matillion, DBT and Tableau is the focus at M&N Data Solutions, where Manikanta Paluri has been Founder and Lead Data Engineering Consultant since 2025. At USEReady, Paluri was Business Intelligence Analyst (2019–2020), Senior Business Intelligence Analyst (2020–2021) and Lead Data Engineer (2021–2025).
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Meisam Ebrahimi
LinkedInExperience: Founder & Data Engineering Consultant · Alpha Array
Scalable GCP, BigQuery and dbt platforms are what Meisam Ebrahimi builds as Founder & Data Engineering Consultant at Alpha Array, a title held since 2016, citing 15+ years with companies from scale-ups to global enterprises. Senior Data Engineer roles include Ocado Technology (2024), YLD (2024–2025), NEOM (2024–2026) and Hargreaves Lansdown (since 2025).
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Mohsin Raza
LinkedInExperience: Data Engineering & Analytics Consultant Partner · DPulse
Helping companies design and stabilize production data platforms on AWS and Azure, across automotive, energy and smart infrastructure, is the work Mohsin Raza describes as Data Engineering & Analytics Consultant Partner at DPulse (since 2021) and Cloud Data Engineering Consultant at MOHSIN DANISH (since 2018). Raza was also Data Engineering Consultant (Freelance) at Vattenfall (2021–2023) and held Data Consultant roles at NavInfo Europe B.V. (2019–2020) and Mapscape B.V. (2019).
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Pawel Kultys
LinkedInExperience: Former Data Engineer Consultant · 7Dxperts
Pawel Kultys has held Data Engineer Consultant titles at Data Thirst Ltd (2019–2020), Redkite (2020–2023) and 7Dxperts (since 2024). At Redkite the work included an analytics solution for Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) under the Unified Data Asset Platform (UDAP) initiative that automated daily data analysis, and Kultys was also Azure Data Consultant at Altius (now Avanade) in 2019.
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Rodney Williams
LinkedInExperience: Principal Data Engineer Database Consultant · Consulting
Rodney Williams has been Principal Data Engineer Database Consultant since 2026, advising clients on modernizing SQL Server, Oracle and AWS Redshift platforms, including schema design, indexing strategies, performance tuning and query optimization. Williams was also Data Engineering Manager at Carters Inc. (2015–2025), SQL DBA Developer at MicroBilt (2012–2014) and DBA Developer - Consultant at Georgia Tech Research Institute (2014).
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Sarg Senthil
LinkedInExperience: Former Senior Data Engineer Consultant S2 · Advancing Analytics
Since 2026, Sarg Senthil has been Senior Data Engineer Consultant S2 at Advancing Analytics and held Senior Data Engineer Consultant S1 there (2024–2026), working as a Databricks Partner Program consultant on data mesh architecture, platform architecture reviews and greenfield Databricks platforms for retail and insurance customers. Senthil was also Data Engineer & Metaverse Lead (IoT, Digital Twins & Mixed Reality) at Kagool (2020–2024).
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Syed Shahrukh Hasan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Data Engineering Consultant · Ollion
At Ollion since 2024, Syed Shahrukh Hasan is Senior Data Engineering Consultant, managing stakeholders across the lifecycle from requirements gathering through design and implementation, and cites 18+ years designing and delivering enterprise-scale work. Hasan was also Senior Consultant at Azendian Solutions (2020–2023) and held Accenture roles including Analytics Consultant (2016–2019) and Data Integration Lead (2019, 2019–2020).
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Tim Adam
LinkedInExperience: Former Principal Data Engineering Consultant (Self-Employed) · Self Employed
Tim Adam became Principal Data Engineering Consultant (Self-Employed) in 2026 and was Application Specialist Data Engineer Data Architect at Accenture (2020–2026), citing 10 years of business intelligence and data warehouse work and database architecture design. Adam also held Contractor Lead Data Engineer Lead ETL Data Architect at TEKsystems/Huyndai Autoever (2019–2020) and Data Engineer Business Intelligence Specialist 3 (Oracle BI) at VSolvit (2015–2019).
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Choose the right perspective
For Databricks work, Sarg Senthil (Databricks Partner Program consultant) and Lakshminarayanan Ravindran (Certified Databricks Platform Architect) are the picks, Manikanta Paluri covers Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Matillion and dbt, and Meisam Ebrahimi covers GCP, BigQuery and dbt. Modernizing SQL Server, Oracle or Redshift fits Williams, Tim Adam brings data warehouse and Oracle BI titles, streaming with Kafka, Flink and Iceberg fits Shtelmakh, and Mohsin Raza covers AWS and Azure platforms.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What should the first phase of a warehouse migration cover so the business sees results before the old system is retired?
- 02How do you choose between Databricks, Snowflake and BigQuery when the team knows SQL but not Spark?
- 03Which parts of a data platform should an outside consultant build, and which should the in-house team own from day one?
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