About
Faizan Khan is a Senior Data and AI Engineer at Sapphire Ventures with an MIT background and five industry certifications. He designs and builds cloud data platforms on AWS and GCP across finance, automotive, and technology sectors, specializing in data pipeline optimization and team leadership. His technical expertise includes PySpark, Airflow, Snowflake, dbt, and related data architecture tools.
Experience
- Sapphire VenturesSenior Data and AI Engineercurrent2024 — presentBerlin, Germany
- Hella Gutmann Solutions A/SLead Data Engineer2023 — 2025Berlin, Germany
- BIT CapitalSenior Data Engineer2021 — 2023Berlin, Germany
- TrueOcean GmbHSenior Data and Analytics Engineer2020 — 2021Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- ALTEN GmbH / ALTEN SW GmbHData Engineering Consultant2019 — 2020Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
- 10PearlsSoftware Developer2017 — 2018karachi
Education
- National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science2013 — 2017
Skills & more
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)TerraformAzure DatabricksAWS2PostgreSQLAmazon S3Apache SupersetAWS Lambda1Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)1AWS GlueAmazon AthenaR (Programming Language)
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Python (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)React.jsPythonPySparkC++CJavaAnalytical SkillsCommunicationAnthropic APIAnthropic ClaudeLanguages Arabic · English · German · Urdu
- MIT Applied Data Science Program — MIT Professional Education
- AWS Certified Data Analytics — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Astronomer Certification for Apache Airflow Fundamentals — Astronomer
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- The Data Scientist’s Toolbox — Coursera
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Also attended National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences7
Asif PeerGroup CEO & Managing Director at Systems LimitedKhurram MajeedGeneral Manager, Systems MEA at Systems LimitedMuhammad Mairaj YousufGeneral Manager, Pakistan at Systems LimitedOvais KhanGroup Head Digital Solutions at Systems LimitedMuhammad AmmadStaff Engineer at Basis Set VenturesFahad NoorStaff Engineer at Basis Set Ventures
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Shared employers
Colleagues at Sapphire Ventures
Abigail Johnson
Partner, Chief Operating Officer at Sapphire Ventures
Adam Liu
Vice President at Sapphire Ventures
Aditya Reddy
Vice President at Sapphire Ventures
Adrian Kania
Senior Associate at Sapphire Ventures
Alex Lehman
Vice President at Sapphire Ventures
Anders Ranum
Partner at Sapphire Ventures
Andrea Scholz
Senior Executive Assistant at Sapphire Ventures
Andreas Weiskam
Partner and Co-Founder of Sapphire Ventures, focused on European investments