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Nitish Songara
From India 10:31 PM (GMT+05:30)
$15/hr or $31,200/yr

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Data Engineer

Data Engineer
Available for hire
Years of experience
5+ years
Experience level
Mid-level
Available for
Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Freelance

Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and maintaining end to end ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics ready datasets across cloud platforms; I work with Python, SQL, PySpark, Databricks, and Airflow to ingest data from files, databases, and external APIs, model it for reporting, and ensure reliability through monitoring and data quality checks as well; I leverage AI tools in my workflow, have a keen interest in AI, and adapt quickly as technology evolves;

Employment History

Associate Data Engineer at Ascendeum Current 2025 - Now
- Built and automated end to end ETL pipelines processing 500M+ ad tech events/month from Amazon S3 into MongoDB to power analytics dashboards used by 50+ stakeholders - Migrated batch processing workflows from Pandas to PySpark, achieving ~5× faster processing on 200GB+ daily datasets while improving stability at scale - Designed a reusable, multi client data ingestion system to fetch similar datasets from multiple external APIs, enabling faster onboarding of new clients with shared pipelines - Orchestrated pipelines using Apache Airflow with clear dependencies, retries, and backfills to ensure reliable delivery of ad and auction datasets across environments - Modeled raw event and ad auction data into analytic ready datasets and derived KPIs, enabling near realtime campaign optimization - Partnered with business and strategy teams to translate goals into data driven ad recommendations and reporting, contributing to 12%–15% increase in client ROI
Data Engineer at Deloitte 2021 - 2025
- Designed and maintained Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks pipelines to ingest and transform data from 10+ sources, processing 20M+ records weekly (∼1TB/month) - Built reusable PySpark and SQL components (standardized transformations, parameterized logic), reducing pipeline development time by 30% and improving maintainability - Developed curated SQL models and reporting views for dashboards used by 200+ users; improved query performance by 40% - Tuned SQL Server reporting workloads (query optimization, indexing, statistics maintenance), reducing report runtimes by 20–25% and improving delivery for leadership metrics - Improved data pipeline reliability to 99.9% uptime using automated data quality checks, proactive monitoring/alerts, and schema evolution handling

Education

Masters of Business Administration in Finance at LNCT, Bhopal 2021 - 2023
Bachelors of Engineering in Information Technology at Institute of Engineering and Technology, DAVV, Indore 2017 - 2021