Meelan Lakhoo

Senior Data Engineer

Planet42

Nov 2024 - Current

Designed and implemented data pipelines for business reporting.

Key Achievements:

• Prepared and submitted SACRRA reports for the credit bureaus.
• Built GPS-based vehicle analytics using a state machine.
• Zero Trust networking with Amazon SSM.
• Data workflows setup with Airflow.

Lead Front End Engineer

Vat Compliance

Sep 2023 - Nov 2024

Led the frontend team for a platform rewrite, completed in six months.

Key Achievements:

• Implemented a monorepo with TurboRepo and Next.js.
• Automated service layer generation from OpenAPI specs.
• Mentored engineers and established code standards.
• Translated Figma designs into responsive code.

Full Stack Software Engineer

Superb APS

Jul 2022 - Aug 2023

Enhanced application architecture and data workflows.

Key Achievements:

• Migrated Snowflake data to an AWS-based data lake.
• Used Argo Workflows for data orchestration.
• Optimized RESTful APIs and MongoDB databases.
• Applied Feature-Sliced Design for code organisation.

Senior DevOps Engineer

VATGlobal

Mar 2021 - Jun 2022

Enhanced infrastructure security and scalability.

Key Achievements:

• Implemented Zero Trust with Cloudflare Access.
• Deployed Grafana Stack for monitoring EKS clusters.
• Used Pulumi for Infrastructure as Code.
• Led Kubernetes projects for deployment scalability.

Data Analyst - Vehicle Finance

ABSA Bank

Feb 2018 - Mar 2020

Supported vehicle finance strategies with data analysis.

Key Achievements:

• Analyzed vehicle purchasing patterns with PySpark.
• Built predictive models for vehicle brand forecasts.
• Designed data marts from Hive and Oracle.
• Presented insights to stakeholders.