// Data Engineer · Hamburg, Germany

Turning raw data
into real value

I'm a Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience building reliable pipelines and cloud platforms that transform messy data into decisions that matter - from OnPrem to Cloud, batch to real-time.

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Core Skills

Pipelines & Orchestration

Data Engineering

Apache Spark Airflow dbt Kafka Databricks Informatica Pub/Sub

Cloud & Infrastructure

Platform & DevOps

GCP AWS Azure Kubernetes Terraform Helm Docker CI/CD GitOps

Storage

Databases & Warehouses

BigQuery PostgreSQL Teradata Delta Lake Hadoop / HDFS SybaseIQ

Languages

Programming

Python PySpark SQL Bash / Shell

Experience

Oct 2023
— Present

Senior Data Engineer

Bauer Media Group · Hamburg

End-to-end data engineering on GCP - serverless ingestion with Cloud Run & Cloud Functions, real-time pipelines via Pub/Sub, dbt transformations orchestrated through Airflow (Cosmos), BigQuery as the warehouse. Also own the data platform: Kubernetes clusters, VPC & ingress config, Terraform IaC, Helm deployments, GitOps, CI/CD, and private package registries.

May 2022
— Sep 2023

Data Engineer

FREE NOW · Hamburg

Designed and maintained PySpark + Databricks pipelines integrating PostgreSQL, Kafka, MySQL, and third-party APIs via Airflow. Optimised running jobs using Delta Live Tables, Spark UI profiling, and cluster/shuffle tuning to cut costs and improve throughput.

Jan 2020
— Apr 2022

Deputy Manager, Data Engineering

Reliance Jio · Mumbai

Built scalable batch pipelines into the Hadoop ecosystem and real-time streaming jobs with Kafka and PySpark Streaming. Orchestrated workloads via Airflow and Azkaban on YARN with optimal resource utilisation and failover.

Oct 2017
— Jan 2020

Technical Consultant

Teradata · Mumbai

Led migrations from Oracle & Informatica 9.1 to Teradata & Informatica 10, preserving data consistency and load history. Designed logical and physical data models and implemented IICS-based loading for semi-structured JSON sources.

Feb 2016
— Sep 2017

Associate

Cognizant · Mumbai

Developed and maintained 10+ regulatory reports covering 100+ KPIs using Informatica transformations. Applied SybaseIQ partition techniques that improved data load efficiency by 70–75%.

Dec 2013
— Jan 2016

Software Engineer

IGATE Global Solutions · Mumbai

Designed and maintained Informatica mappings, sessions, and workflows for data integration and ETL processes. Performed data validation, cleansing, and transformation to ensure pipeline quality and consistency.

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