About

Senior engineers, packaged for delivery.

Abakka is a lean, senior data engineering studio. We are a small team that has built national-scale platforms and packaged that experience into fixed-scope bundles anyone can buy.

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Delivery Lead · Commercial · Program Governance

16 years in technology, 11 in the UAE. Led billion-AED national programs including sovereign cloud, national genome infrastructure, and a national cyber-threat SOC. Expert in program delivery, vendor management, and C-suite engagement. PMP, PSM I, Azure certified.

Focus

Strategy, platform decisions, client leadership, AI overlay

PMPPSM IAzure Certified
02

Principal Engineer · Architect · Hands-on Build

13 years in data engineering. Databricks-certified architect with deep expertise in enterprise lakehouse, Spark, Unity Catalog, and Hadoop/Cloudera → cloud migrations. Has delivered platforms for energy, semiconductor, and other enterprise accounts. Published author.

Focus

Architecture, hands-on build, migrations, governance, technical content

Databricks Certified ArchitectPublished Author

The bench

Two founders.
A vetted bench behind them.

For larger engagements, we draw on a curated network of senior specialists — vetted across the skills any serious data platform delivery requires. Here's what's on the bench.

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes / AKS / EKS
  • Networking & VNet Peering
  • Azure / AWS / GCP

Data Engineering

  • Apache Spark
  • Delta Lake
  • Kafka / Streaming
  • ETL / ELT Pipelines

Governance & Catalog

  • Unity Catalog
  • Ranger / Atlas
  • Data Lineage
  • RBAC Models

Security & Compliance

  • Zero Trust Networking
  • CMK / BYOK
  • Exfiltration Controls
  • SOC2 / ISO Mapping

DevOps & Operations

  • CI / CD Pipelines
  • Observability & Alerting
  • Cost Optimization
  • Performance Tuning

Bench specialists are engaged per engagement, not retained. You get senior attention on every engagement — no junior staffing.

Delivery model

Remote-first, async-friendly.

We are based in the UAE (GMT+4), which bridges European mornings and APAC afternoons — making us well-suited to async delivery across EU, US, and APAC time zones.

Markets
EU/UK · US/Canada/AU · Singapore/ANZ
Delivery model
Remote-first, async-first
Time zone
GMT+4 (UAE) — bridges EU & APAC
Team model
Senior founders + vetted bench

Platforms

Deep on the platforms that matter.

We focus on Databricks and Cloudera CDP because that is where our deepest enterprise experience lies.

Databricks

Lakehouse, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, Photon

Cloudera CDP

Hadoop ecosystem, CDP migrations to cloud

Apache Spark

Batch + streaming, optimization, migration

Individual backgrounds are available on request. Company updates: LinkedIn.

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