Dewei Zhai

Available for select platform & advisory work

Dewei Zhai

Freelance data engineer & AI practitioner

Technology changes. The real need usually doesn’t.

I find the stable business need beneath the stack, then build the simplest system that can serve it reliably.

Daily engineering tools

Codex Claude Code

8+ years in data · 4 cloud platforms

Selected work

The cases below are public; I have references with names attached on request.

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01 / 2026 — now

Enyquant

Owned the architecture and hands-on delivery of a dual-region energy-data platform. I separated stable business contracts — time, readiness, lineage, and failure boundaries — from replaceable runtimes, then changed the runtime when the evidence said it no longer fit.

EU ↔ CN
dual-region platform
~95%
lower runtime cost
  • Defined runtime-independent ingestion, temporal, and readiness contracts so compute could change without changing business meaning
  • Re-platformed daily runtime from Databricks + ADF to Airflow + DuckDB/Polars + DuckLake → ~95% lower monthly cost
  • Built governed DuckLake access with explicit human, team, and writer boundaries
  • 100% IaC (CDKTF + Terraform); zero click-ops drift
03 / 2022–2024

VodafoneZiggo

Migrated legacy DWH workloads from Oracle to Snowflake on a 1PB+ enterprise datalake. Owned CDC ingestion, IaC, and the CI/CD foundation that the broader team builds on.

↳ Supported Snowflake migration from legacy Oracle DWH

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