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2023 · Systems architect

Lakehouse Ledger

Structured audit-trail infrastructure for regulated data pipelines

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Context

A fintech data platform needed immutable lineage across batch and streaming transforms.

Problem

Compliance reviews could not reconstruct metric definition changes. Audit prep consumed three engineer-weeks per quarter.

Architecture

Designed an append-only ledger of schema versions, transform fingerprints, and partition manifests wired into Spark and Flink jobs.

Result

Quarterly audit prep dropped from three engineer-weeks to four engineer-days. Lineage lookup latency stayed under 200ms p95.

Stack

Apache IcebergSparkFlinkPostgreSQLgRPC