Thomas Taylor Armstrong • Principal Architect

Data Architecture for Fintech & E-commerce.

With over 15 years of experience bridging technical design and business strategy. Specializing in Data Mesh, Cloud Migrations (GCP/AWS), and building robust data products that teams can trust.

Core Capabilities

Data Mesh & Governance

Designing federated data ownership models, implementing Purpose Based Access Control (PBAC), and driving organizational transitions to Data Mesh architectures.

Cloud Migrations

Leading complex, petabyte-scale migrations from legacy on-premise environments (Hadoop/SAS) to modern cloud data platforms on AWS and Google Cloud Platform.

Data Engineering

Building resilient, automated pipelines using Python, PySpark, DBT, and Kafka. Transitioning batch processes to real-time DataOps and Kappa architectures.

~ whoomph_resume --experience
[2023-2024] ICA Banken 
            Migrated SAS recommendation frameworks to GCP/BigQuery using DBT.
[2020-2023] Klarna Bank AB 
            Data Architect driving the transition to a federated Data Mesh.
[2019-2020] Klarna Bank AB 
            Led the migration of on-premise Hadoop to AWS Spark pipelines.
[status] Ready for new architectural challenges.

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