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Data Engineering · APIs · AI · Automation

Amazon Commerce Data Platform

Building data pipelines that connect Amazon commerce sources to validation, analytics, automation and AI-assisted investigation.

AT A GLANCE

Role
AI & Automation Engineer
Company / context
International e-commerce operation
Domain
Data Engineering · APIs · AI · Automation
Core technology
Python · SQL · BigQuery · Amazon Ads API
Focus
Ingestion · Transformation · Data quality

Context

An international e-commerce operation used Amazon Ads, Seller Central and Vendor Central across approximately 800 accounts and all marketplaces. Making that information usable downstream required a shared path from API ingestion to normalized business data in BigQuery.

The challenge

Reports and API data arrived with different schemas and reporting cadences. The platform needed to expose missing periods, stale last-available dates, incomplete or inconsistent fields and source-to-warehouse discrepancies without hiding where each issue originated.

My responsibilities and contribution

Within the broader platform, I contributed to ingestion and transformation work and owned the Python comparison pipeline used to investigate differences between Amazon reports and BigQuery data.

  • 01

    Contributed to Python and SQL pipelines for Amazon data ingestion, standardization and transformation.

  • 02

    Analyzed data coverage, freshness, missing dates, consistency and API-response anomalies across platform layers.

  • 03

    Built the Python pipeline that compared Amazon reports with BigQuery data and generated discrepancy reports.

  • 04

    Added OpenAI-assisted analysis to the discrepancy workflow while preserving the underlying engineering checks.

  1. 01
    SourceAds · Seller · Vendor
  2. 02
    ConnectAmazon APIs
  3. 03
    ProcessPython ingestion
  4. 04
    DataBigQuery · L1 raw
  5. 05
    ProcessL2 · transform · normalize
  6. 06
    DataL3 · validate · business
  7. 07
    OutcomeAnalytics · automation · AI

Conceptual and anonymized view; implementation details are intentionally omitted.

How the problem was approached

The L1/L2/L3 architecture separated source ingestion from transformation and business consumption. Recurring pipelines included confirmed daily loads for part of the Amazon environment, while validation remained part of the data path.

  1. 01

    Used Python and Amazon APIs to bring source data into a BigQuery-based platform.

  2. 02

    Worked with L1/L2/L3 layers so source-aligned, transformed and business data remained distinguishable.

  3. 03

    Applied SQL transformations and normalization before data reached analytics and automation consumers.

  4. 04

    Used telemetry and targeted checks to inspect expected periods, missing dates, last-available dates, completeness and consistency.

ENGINEERING CHALLENGES

Challenge → why it mattered → response
01

Heterogeneous Amazon sources

Why it mattered
Ads, Seller Central and Vendor Central exposed different schemas and reporting cadences.
Response
The pipeline standardized data before transformation while retaining a clear boundary to the originating source.
02

Coverage and freshness

Why it mattered
A completed ingestion job did not by itself prove that every expected date or record range was present.
Response
Checks covered expected periods, missing dates, last-available dates, completeness and consistency across sources and layers.
03

Source-to-warehouse discrepancies

Why it mattered
Real issues included null account_id values, expected attribution fields missing from responses, report differences and 406/415 endpoint errors.
Response
A dedicated Python flow compared reports with BigQuery, detected differences, generated reports and added an OpenAI-assisted analysis step.

Data quality & discrepancy detection

A separate comparison path made data gaps investigable.

The comparison pipeline created a repeatable path from source evidence to a discrepancy report. It helped investigate null identifiers, missing expected fields, coverage gaps and report differences, with OpenAI assisting analysis rather than determining correctness.
  1. 01Amazon reports
  2. 02BigQuery data
  3. 03Comparison
  4. 04Difference detection
  5. 05Report
  6. 06AI-assisted analysis

A layered data flow connected Amazon sources to BigQuery, kept transformation boundaries explicit and placed validation before the analytics, automation and AI consumption layer.

CORE TECHNOLOGY

PythonSQLBigQueryAmazon Ads APIAmazon SP-APIOpenAI

What changed as a result

Recorded outcomes from the project scope.

01

Approximately 800 accounts were within the platform scope across all marketplaces.

02

66 Ecombrain modules were mapped to understand platform coverage; these were modules, not datasets.

03

Recurring ingestion and transformation included confirmed daily loads for part of the Amazon environment.

04

Established a repeatable comparison between Amazon source reports and BigQuery data.

05

Made coverage, freshness, missing fields and consistency issues traceable before downstream consumption.

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