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CHRIS LUTTAZI

Lead Data Engineer. I build lakehouse platforms on Databricks & Spark, model with Data Vault 2.0, and make data AI-ready — 10+ years, 4 continents, based in Tokyo.

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CHRIS LUTTAZI DATA
ENGINEER

Lead Data Engineer specialising in large-scale lakehouse platforms built on Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg, with deep expertise in Data Vault 2.0 modelling, real-time streaming and cloud data warehousing. I design AI-ready data platforms — governed, high-quality data foundations that power analytics, machine learning, RAG pipelines and vector search — and I work AI-augmented, pairing daily with Claude and GitHub Copilot to ship production-grade systems faster. 10+ years across fintech, e-commerce, energy and enterprise, from Scandinavia to Japan.

Core Platform
Apache Spark
Databricks
Snowflake
Python · SQL
Scala
AWS · Azure
Apache Airflow
Apache Kafka
Modelling & Architecture
Data Vault 2.0
Lakehouse · Medallion
Delta Lake · Iceberg
dbt
CDC / AWS DMS
Unity Catalog · Governance
AI & GenAI Data Stack
LLM Data Pipelines
RAG · Vector Search
AI-Augmented Dev
Claude AI · Copilot
10+
Years Experience
4
Continents
12+
Clients Served
01 —

CAREER TIMELINE

Chris Luttazi is a Lead Data Engineer specialising in large-scale data platforms built on Databricks, Apache Spark, and the modern lakehouse ecosystem.


His toolkit covers the full modern data stack: lakehouse architecture on Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg, Data Vault 2.0 and dimensional modelling, streaming and CDC pipelines with Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming, orchestration and transformation with Airflow and dbt, and governance with Unity Catalog and data contracts.


Since the rise of generative AI, Chris has focused on AI-ready data platforms — the governed, high-quality data foundations that LLM applications, RAG systems and vector search depend on — and on AI-augmented engineering, using Claude and GitHub Copilot daily to design, build and test pipelines faster.


With experience spanning fintech, energy, e-commerce, and enterprise consulting, Chris has delivered data solutions across four continents — from Scandinavia to Japan. Currently based in Tokyo, Japan.


Azure Data Engineer Certified

JAN
2016
MS Information Systems
Northeastern University — USA
MAR
2016
Data Engineer
Schneider Electric — Denmark
SEP
2018
Senior Data Engineer
Nets Group — Norway
JUN
2021
Lead Data Engineer
Freelance — Spain
FEB
2024
Data Engineering Services
Japan
02 —

EXPERTISE

/ 01
Lakehouse Platform Engineering
End-to-end platform builds on Databricks and Snowflake: Medallion architecture, Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg table formats, performance tuning and cost optimisation at scale.
/ 02
Data Vault 2.0 & Modelling
Agile, auditable enterprise data warehousing with Data Vault 2.0 — hubs, links and satellites — combined with dimensional modelling for clean consumption layers.
/ 03
Streaming & Real-Time Pipelines
Streaming-first ingestion with Apache Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming and CDC — powering real-time analytics, ML features and low-latency data products.
/ 04
AI-Ready Data Platforms
Data foundations for generative AI: RAG pipelines, vector search and embedding stores, plus the data contracts and governance that keep AI outputs trustworthy.
/ 05
AI-Augmented Delivery
Engineering accelerated by AI: Claude and GitHub Copilot embedded in the workflow for code generation, testing, documentation and migrations — shipping faster without cutting corners.
/ 06
Cloud Data Warehousing
Modern warehouse builds and migrations on Snowflake, Databricks SQL and Azure: dbt transformations, automated testing and CI/CD for analytics engineering.
03 —

TRUSTED BY

Randstad
Nationale Nederlanden
Cognizant
Adevinta
Nets Group
Farfetch
Schneider Electric
Philip Morris International
Huddle Group
ExxonMobil
Accenture
Iceberg Solutions
Randstad
Nationale Nederlanden
Cognizant
Adevinta
Nets Group
Farfetch
Schneider Electric
Philip Morris International
Huddle Group
ExxonMobil
Accenture
Iceberg Solutions
04 —

OPEN SOURCE

Featured · Spark · Databricks · Data Vault 2.0
Data Engineering
Production-style data engineering on banking data: Spark pipelines, lakehouse and Medallion patterns, Data Vault 2.0 modelling, and AI-ready tooling.
Featured · Streaming · GitHub Events
GitHub Events
The same production-grade patterns applied to the GitHub events firehose: streaming ingestion, lakehouse modelling and analytics over real-world public activity.
Apache Spark · Python
Spark ETL
Production-grade PySpark ETL pipeline designed for scalable batch data processing across enterprise data lakes.
Scala · Spring
Scala Spring
Scala-based Spring integration project demonstrating reactive streaming patterns over distributed datasets.
AKKA · Scala
AKKA Hasher
Actor-based hashing utility for concurrent data anonymisation across high-throughput streams.
Apache Spark · E-Commerce
SKUs
Spark pipeline for processing and enriching large SKU catalogs for e-commerce platforms at scale.
Scala · Finance
Up or Down
Market prediction utility using historical trend analysis to classify asset momentum signals.
Apache Spark · Energy
Solar Irradiance
Spark-based analysis and forecasting of solar irradiance data for renewable energy performance modelling.

LET'S BUILD
SOMETHING.

Available for data engineering engagements, platform architecture, AI data-platform builds and consulting across fintech, e-commerce and regulated industries.

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