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Expert in designing, building, and optimizing scalable data pipelines, modern data warehouses, and real-time streaming architectures. Mastery covers the complete modern data stack, including Spark, dbt, Airflow, and cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP). Focuses on ELT/ETL, data lakehouse implementation (Delta Lake, Iceberg), data governance, and ensuring high data quality and operational reliability.

This guide provides a comprehensive framework for minimizing cloud expenditure on Databricks. It covers identifying cost drivers via system billing tables, implementing cluster policies, utilizing spot instances for batch processing, right-sizing SQL warehouses, and automating the shutdown of idle development clusters. Use it when managing cloud spending or optimizing data platform usage.