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shruti chikode
From Germany 06:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
$75,000/yr

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Data Engineer with analytics

Data Engineer
Available for hire
Years of experience
6+ years
Experience level
Mid-level
Available for
Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Freelance
Available from
01 Oct 2026
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With over 6 years of experience specializing in cloud data infrastructure, scalable ETL/ELT pipeline design, and data warehouse optimization. Based in Germany, her core expertise spans major cloud platforms GCP, Azure, alongside technologies like SQL, Python, PySpark, Databricks, Apache Airflow, and BigQuery. Throughout her career across organizations such as BAUHAUS, Kantar, and Persistent Systems, she has successfully driven system modernizations, integrated AI workflows, and optimized analytical storage to cut query latency and operational costs. Her background in banking, media, and retail analytics is backed by a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunications and Post Graduate Diplomas in AI/Machine Learning and Computer Science.

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Employment History

Data Engineer at BAUHAUS 2025 - 2026
Built and led the analytics layer for customer feedback data, integrating Copilot frameworks and autonomous AI Agentic workflows to automate data discovery for business teams. • AI Agentic Workflows & Copilot Integration: Architected autonomous AI Agent workflows and integrated Copilot frameworks over unstructured customer feedback datasets, enabling natural language querying and automated data discovery for business teams. • Scalable Data Pipelines: Designed and deployed scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Python and PySpark to ingest high-volume feedback and transactional datasets into GCP BigQuery. • Storage & Query Optimization: Optimized BigQuery partitioning, clustering, and storage models to handle high-frequency inventory and customer analytics, significantly reducing dashboard query latency. • Workflow Orchestration: Configured and managed complex DAGs using Apache Airflow in GCP to orchestrate daily batch processing, ensuring reliable, low-latency data availability for downstream analytics. • CI/CD & Pipeline Reliability: Automated multi-stage pipeline deployments using GitLab CI/CD, maintaining strict version control, data reproducibility, and automated monitoring.
Career Break at Family Sabbatical & Upskilling 2024 - 2025
• Travelled to India to support family during a personal emergency. • Maintained hands-on technical proficiency via self-directed projects focused on GCP data engineering, SQL query optimization, PySpark pipeline design, and Apache Airflow orchestration.
Azure Data Engineer at Kantar GmbH 2022 - 2024
Media Data Delivery — Cloud data lake for a Dutch broadcaster, enabling real-time reporting and data-driven decisions. • System Design: Designed and implemented scalable data and analytics solutions in Azure and Databricks, translating complex business requirements into technical architecture. • Pipeline Engineering: Designed event-driven, real-time streaming pipelines to ingest structured and unstructured data into Azure Data Lake, leveraging PySpark to process millions of records. • Modelling & Performance: Developed reusable data models and pipelines using Databricks and dbt while optimizing system performance and reliability with Delta Lake and Databricks SQL. • Governance & Quality: Maintained data governance, security, and compliance standards in Azure while ensuring quality through CI/CD practices and monitoring via Apache Airflow. • Consulting & Collaboration: Provided technical consulting, project scoping, and effort estimation for stakeholders within international teams.
Associate Data Engineer at Persistent Systems 2021 - 2022
Banking Cloud Infrastructure — Modernizing on-premise banking systems with cloud-native Azure architecture. • Cloud Migration & Integration: Migrated on-premise infrastructure to Azure-native solutions, implementing ADLS Gen2 architecture and OAuth2 authentication to improve processing efficiency. • Business Logic Translation: Performed reverse engineering on complex Oracle PL/SQL procedures, translating legacy business logic into optimized Python (PySpark) and Databricks SQL code. • Orchestration & DevOps: Managed complex batch workflows using Apache Airflow and Azure Data Factory, while designing multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. • Transaction & Risk Analytics: Analysed high-volume transactional datasets to identify potential fraud patterns, anomaly indicators, and customer risk signals across cloud banking modules.
Junior Data Engineer at Rave Technologies 2019 - 2021
Tax Processing Automation — Cloud and data pipeline setup for government tax declaration processing • Data Pipeline Engineering: Built foundational Python and PySpark ETL pipelines to extract, clean, and transform structured tax data across multiple source systems. • Automation & Processing: Assisted in optimizing data preparation workflows for automated tax processing, reducing manual effort by 30%. • Reporting & Analytics: Developed interactive data visualizations and reporting dashboards using Plotly and Seaborn to communicate operational outputs to stakeholders
SQL Developer / Analyst at 3i Infotech 2015 - 2019
Banking Support System — Software development and operational data reporting for banking applications in Bahrain. • SQL & Schema Optimization: Architected complex Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures to automate weekly banking operational reports, reducing manual effort by 20% and improving reporting latency for regional stakeholders in Bahrain. • Data Architecture: Optimized Oracle PL/SQL views and relational models for banking data warehouse systems, reducing report generation time by 20%. • Reliability & SLA: Maintained 95% issue resolution within SLA timelines, ensuring operational continuity for mission-critical banking systems.

Education

Post Graduate Diploma — AI & Machine Learning at Great Lakes Institute of Management 2019 - 2020
Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) 2015 - 2015
Bachelor of Engineering — Electronics & Telecommunications at Mumbai University 2010 - 2014