Kelly Smith

Senior AI Data Engineer

Talent

RichardsonMember since May 12, 2026

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Results-driven Senior AI Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing scalable cloud-native data platforms, real-time streaming architectures, and AI/ML pipelines across healthcare, logistics, and retail domains. Expertise in Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, dbt, AWS, and Azure, delivering high-performance ETL/ELT solutions supporting billions of events and multi-terabyte datasets. Proven success implementing Lakehouse architectures, feature stores, MLOps frameworks, and enterprise data governance solutions using Terraform, Kubernetes, MLflow, and Unity Catalog.

Strong background in building real-time analytics ecosystems, optimizing operational reporting, and enabling AI-driven business intelligence through scalable, secure, and highly reliable distributed data engineering platforms.