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Merdan Soltanov.
Data & AI Engineer

Data & AI Engineer with 4+ years building production-grade data pipelines and LLM-powered systems - GPU inference, RAG, and fault-tolerant ETL on Kubernetes. Applied-mathematics background, focused on reliable, scalable, high-impact data solutions.

Experience

Accenture Jul 2026 - Present
Data Engineering, Management & Governance Analyst
  • Data engineering, management and governance for enterprise-scale data platforms.
Domus Capital - Precatórios / Ativos Judiciais Apr 2023 - Apr 2026
Data & AI Engineer
  • Built scalable Python data pipelines and backend services for production data/AI workflows.
  • Developed an OCR engine in Python powered by LLM inference with Redis, FastAPI and GPU processing.
  • Shipped async document-processing that summarizes large legal documents and emails automated decisions.
  • Built near-real-time ingestion pipelines with Apache Kafka, streaming from multiple upstream sources.
  • Modeled data in SQL across a layered architecture for analytics (core, semantic, metrics).
  • Orchestrated Airflow on Kubernetes; cut AWS cost via S3 lifecycle policies and ECR automation.
Dolomites Consultoria Nov 2022 - Apr 2023
Data Engineer
  • Designed containerized ETL pipelines in Python processing payment data from many Brazilian state & municipal sources.
  • Orchestrated 100+ Docker tasks per run with Airflow on Kubernetes; automated DAG deployment via GitHub with centralized logging in S3; queried processed data with SQL.
Laguz Opportunities Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Data Engineer
  • Built automated Selenium crawlers in Python to extract legacy legal documents; parsed scanned PDFs (Tesseract, Textract, Camelot, Tabula).
  • Built ETL into a layered S3 data-lake, querying with SQL; contributed Power BI dashboards for business decision-making.

Selected Project

AI Platform Engineering Self-directed · 2026
  • Agentic AI platform (hexagonal architecture): MCP tools in Python, RAG with Titan V2 embeddings over pgvector/HNSW, LangGraph agents with tool calling, OpenTelemetry observability. github.com/SoltanovM/LeIA ↗

Skills

AI / ML: LLMs, LangGraph, Agentic Workflows, RAG, MCP, Amazon Bedrock, vLLM, Embeddings, NLP, CrewAI
Data Engineering: Airflow, PySpark, Spark SQL, ETL/ELT, Data Modeling, Data Lakes, Lakehouse, Databricks
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenTelemetry
Platforms & Backend: dbt, Airbyte, BigQuery, Snowflake, Kafka, pgvector, FastAPI, Redis, Elasticsearch, Streamlit
Programming: Python, SQL, Bash

Education

Postgraduate Specialization, Data Engineering
Faculdade Facint · 2024 – 2026
BASc, Mathematics
Universidade de São Paulo (USP) · 2017 – 2023

Certifications

IBM Data Engineering Specialization · Machine Learning · AWS Cloud Practitioner

Awards

Bronze - International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) results ↗ · Silver - National Mathematical Olympiad

Languages

Turkmen (native) · Turkish (bilingual) · English (advanced) · Portuguese (advanced) · Russian (basic)