Faizal Azman

data & finops · 6 years exp · kuala lumpur

Enterprise data
infrastructure
without the bloat. — Faizal Azman, Data & platform engineer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

I architect resilient AWS data lakes and automate DataOps pipelines—scaling enterprise analytics while slashing cloud costs.

Selected work faizal@faizalazman.dev
336K
RM saved / yr
99%
Faster pipelines
99.99999%
Uptime
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02 / selected work

Things that
stayed up.

Three of seventeen
2023 — 2026

Fourteen more in the archiveView all work

03 / about

The best infrastructure work I've done is invisible — the pipelines clear, costs drop, and the pager stays quiet.

Six years in, the interesting problems are rarely the clever ones. They're the quiet questions — how to aggressively cut cloud bloat, what happens when upstream CDC data fails, and how to scale enterprise analytics without breaking the bank. I answer those before anyone has to ask.

From taking full ownership of enterprise AWS data lakes to maintaining zero downtime during highly oversubscribed live fundraises, I specialize in building robust backend and data systems that simply cannot afford to fail.

track

  1. 2025Senior Software Engineer (Data), Bank IslamKuala Lumpur
  2. 2024Snr Backend / Data Engineer, Almanak AG LabsSwitzerland
  3. 2023Application Development Engineer, SpritzerTaiping
  4. 2021Backend Engineer, White Straits CapitalSelangor
  5. 2019Freelance Software EngineerRemote

05 / instrumented

Numbers I'm
accountable for.

Anyone can claim scale and reliability. These are the actual metrics from the enterprise data lakes and critical backend systems I engineer and maintain.

pipeline runtime · data lake−99%
6 hoursslo 60mtoday · 2m
uptime · critical fundraise100%
Cloud spend reduction
RM 336K/yr
KMS cost drop
92%
Duplicates purged
82B+
Critical audit findings (VAPT)
0

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Let's build something
worth maintaining.

faizal@faizalazman.dev
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