CURATOR
Azwan Zuharimi
Lead Data Engineer, Dürr Dental SE
About Azwan
Azwan leads data engineering at Dürr Dental’s software team in Kuala Lumpur. For seven years, Azwan was a mechanical engineer at the consultancy Sepakat Setia Perunding, designing air-conditioning, fire protection and pumping systems and working with DBKL, Air Selangor, Bomba and IWK on projects including MRT Line 2, the Gemas–Johor Bahru electrified double track and the Kuantan sewerage scheme. After retraining through online courses and a USM Professional Certificate in Data Science sponsored by Yayasan Peneraju, Azwan moved into data in 2022 and has since built data pipelines for an analytics consultancy, a property developer, an insurer and a jobs platform, working on finance, CRM and management reporting for teams across Asia and Australia. Azwan holds a bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from Universiti Tenaga Nasional.
What we heard
Azwan talked with us about changing careers, pay, raises and showing your manager your work. We turned that into practices like “The offer in your new field is below what you earn now”.
Practices from our conversation with Azwan
Written by Leetsoul. Azwan didn’t write, review or endorse them.
A client asks for the usual number, and only they can work it out
Office & workplace15 min · Case practice · Soulful
Sending your manager the sales table with something extra added
Copywriting & clarity11 min · Soulful
Background
- Lead Data Engineer, Dürr Dental SE2026 to present
- Senior Data Engineer, SEEK2024 to 2026
- Senior Data Engineer, FWD Insurance2024
- Senior Data Engineer, Sime Darby Property2023 to 2024
- Data Scientist and Data Engineer, Avinity Analytics2022 to 2023
- Mechanical Engineer, Sepakat Setia Perunding2015 to 2022
- Professional Certificate in Data Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia2022
- Bachelor’s degree, Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional2015
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