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    "summary": "Freelance data engineer & AI practitioner based in the Netherlands. 8+ years building 500TB–1PB datalakes on AWS, Azure, and GCP, now with AI in the delivery loop. Available for select work.",
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      "100% Infrastructure-as-Code platforms (Terraform, AWS CDK, CDKTF)",
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      "Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark",
      "Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate",
      "Certified Associate in Python Programming"
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      "institution": "Xidian University (China)",
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      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhaidewei",
      "github": "https://github.com/zhaidewei"
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