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Emanuel Mallia

I help enterprises ship data platforms and AI systems that actually work. Not demos. Not POCs that never see production. Real systems that deliver value.

Years

Revenue Enabled

Production Systems

14+ years, six chapters.

Scroll through the path from Linux DBA to Head of Data. Each chapter is one piece of the foundation underneath today's work.

2011 — 2018

Telecoms & Financial

Data & IT Service Development

Linux server and Oracle database administration. IT systems development and product consultation. Building the foundation in infrastructure, database, and data that everything later would depend on.

Foundations

Linux servers · Oracle databases

2018 — 2019

Gaming

Senior DBA & Application Support

Managed over 1,000 servers across Linux distributions and Azure cloud infrastructure. Databases spanning MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB. Production support, root cause analysis, and automation deliveries with Python.

1,000+ servers

MySQL · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Azure

2019 — 2023

Telecoms & S&P 500

DevOps & Data Engineer → Senior

Spearheaded database and data architectures across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and the ELK Stack. Designed and automated data integrations, backup strategies, clustering, and replication pipelines. Built monitoring and observability with Grafana, Prometheus, and Zabbix.

Pipelines

ELK · Grafana · Prometheus · Zabbix

2023 — 2024

Telecoms & S&P 500

Data Architect

Owned end-to-end data architecture design and database strategy across distributed systems. Led machine learning and AI integration initiatives, established platform best-in-class architecture, and built scalable data engineering practices.

End-to-end

Architecture · ML/AI integration · Strategy

2024 — 2025

Fintech

Data Architect

Delivered the end-to-end architecture for data and database design. Led the enterprise data warehouse build on AWS utilising S3, MWAA, dbt, Redshift, and PostgreSQL. Enabled 50% revenue lift through monetisable data products and shipped GDPR-compliant governance alongside.

50% revenue enabled

AWS · S3 · MWAA · dbt · Redshift

2025 — Present

Fintech

Head of Data

Leading Data, Database, and Data Analytics end-to-end. Building ML and AI-powered data systems, mentoring data engineering teams, and driving data-driven innovation across the organisation.

Today

Ship, don’t slide · Data first · End-to-end

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