Ammar Nizami
Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer, Data Engineering practice
Ammar leads a team of Forward-Deployed Engineers inside Mactores’ Data Engineering practice. Fifteen years in data engineering. Fifty-plus production Apache Iceberg engagements shipped. He owns the architecture calls that a customer’s data team cannot afford to get wrong — table format choice, partition strategy, migration sequencing, cutover under load — and hands the running platform back to the customer’s operations team on customer-signed acceptance. The complex Iceberg problems Mactores takes on are the ones his team solves.
Writing
What he's been writing.
Apache Iceberg on AWS: Costs, Compliance and Migration
Amazon Redshift Enterprise Data Warehouse: Cost & Migration
The Data Lakehouse for Agentic AI: A 2026 Architecture Guide
Database Modernization on AWS: Oracle & SQL Server to Aurora
What Is RAG, and Why the Data Layer Decides Everything
Data Modernization in 2026-27: Three Pillars, One Engine
AWS Data Lake: Architecture, Services & Build Guide