Karim Zhan

Data/Analytics Engineer GCP specialized in designing scalable and governed Data Products, at the intersection of technical and functional. I work in direct collaboration with your business teams to transform your needs into production-ready data solutions — from collection to exposure in dashboards or self-service analytics.

What I bring you concretely:

Do you have complex SAP data, business teams expecting reliable KPIs, and a GCP infrastructure to evolve? This is exactly my field. I master the entire lifecycle of a Data Product: framing with stakeholders, BigQuery modeling, testing, CI/CD via GitHub Actions, infrastructure as code with Terraform — up to end-user adoption via PowerBI.

What sets me apart:

Most Data profiles are either very technical or very functional. My experience at Saint Laurent and L'Oréal has taught me to be both: I understand business challenges (Supply Chain, Retail & Sales, Finance) as much as technical constraints. I am also bilingual Mandarin/English, which has allowed me to work on international projects (Shanghai, Chinese market — Douyin, Alibaba) with cross-cultural teams.

Projects and deliverables I work on:

Design and build of governed Data Products in a Data Mesh architecture on GCP

ELT pipelines with dbt (SQL, Jinja, macros, unit tests) and automated CI/CD

SAP to GCP migration — serverless, scalable, reduction of operational costs

PowerBI analytical dashboards for Retail, Supply Chain, and Finance teams

BigQuery optimization: partitioning, clustering, sharding on large SAP datasets

GCP Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Stack: BigQuery · dbt · Terraform · Python · SQL · GCP · SAP · PowerBI · GitHub Actions · Databricks