Victor Sabare
Data Engineer @ Stanbic Bank Kenya
📧 sabarevictor@gmail.com📞 +254 113193473📍 Ngong Road, Nairobi County, Kenya🌐 https://sabare.tech
💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorsabare💻 https://github.com/Sabareh📝 https://sabare.me
Professional Summary
Data engineer modernizing legacy banking workloads into reliable Python + Airflow pipelines. I deliver repeatable ingestion patterns, validation-first data contracts, and observability so Finance, Risk, and Ops teams can trust their dashboards and services.
Top Skills
Data ArchitectureData LoadingAmazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Professional Experience
Data Engineer
Stanbic Bank Kenya
June 2025 - Present
Nairobi County, Kenya
- Re-platform legacy Oracle/EDW workloads into Python + Airflow DAGs for simpler, auditable orchestration.
- Hardened GL integrity and interest change pipelines with validation checkpoints and automated alerting.
- Established reusable query → read_sql → to_sql patterns accelerating new data product onboarding.
- Shipped Excel runbooks, Power BI dashboards, and metrics that give stakeholders real-time visibility.
PythonApache AirflowPolarsPandasOracleSQLDelta LakeKafkadbt
Data Engineer
HFC Kenya
July 2024 - September 2024
Nairobi County, Kenya
- Digitized manual banking processes with production Power Apps and Power Automate flows.
- Partnered on AWS Redshift migration, designing data loading standards and dimensional models.
- Streamlined Central Bank regulatory submissions with SOAPUI automation and QA guardrails.
Power AppsPower AutomateAWSAmazon RedshiftSQLSOAPUI
Freelance Data Analytics Engineer
Upwork
March 2023 - July 2024
Remote
- Wrote 150+ long-form landing page sections covering remote hiring interviews and FAQs.
- Increased employer blog traffic by 16% with data-driven tutorials and thought leadership.
- Consulted on portfolio deployment, analytics instrumentation, and Power BI rollouts for distributed teams.
Technical WritingSEOAnalytics StrategyPower BIContent Operations
Education
Associate Big Data Engineer (ABDE™)
Data Science Council of America
Certification in enterprise-scale data engineering patterns.
2025
Remote
Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Analytics
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Machine Learning I & II, Probability & Statistics, Data Mining.
2020 - 2024
Kenya
Data Science and Analytics Track
DataCamp
Associate-level programs in data engineering and analytics.
2021 - 2023
Remote
Technical Skills
Data Engineering
PythonPolarsPandasApache AirflowdbtKafkaDelta LakeSpark
Cloud & Platforms
Amazon EMRAWS RedshiftMicrosoft FabricAzureOracle Data Warehouse
Data Reliability
Data ContractsSLA DesignData Quality MonitoringObservabilityBackfill Playbooks
Analytics & Power Platform
Power BIPower AppsPower AutomatePowerFXDAX
Collaboration
Stakeholder RunbooksTechnical WritingCross-functional WorkshopsMentorship
Languages
English • Full ProfessionalSwahili • Limited Working
Certifications
• Associate Big Data Engineer (ABDE™)
• BCG - Data Science Job Simulation
• Spatial Data Science: The New Frontier in Analytics (MOOC)
• Data Engineer Associate
• Data Analyst Associate
Honors & Awards
- World Scholars Award
- Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador
Publications
Data Engineering Technologies
Guide to orchestrating data tooling for regulated industries.
Building and Optimizing Data Pipelines for High-Volume Data Processing
Operational playbooks for validation-first ingestion at scale.
Creating a Data Pipeline Using Apache Airflow
Hands-on workflow automation walkthrough with production guardrails.
Stock Price Prediction with Apache Spark and Apache Cassandra
Streaming architecture exploration for market intelligence.
Key Projects
GL Integrity Modernization
Airflow pipelines with automated validation, rollback, and Power BI observability for finance stakeholders.
PythonApache AirflowOracleDelta LakePower BI
Regulatory Reporting Automation
SOAPUI + Power Platform tooling cutting regulatory report prep time by 60%.
Power AppsSOAPUIAWS RedshiftSQL