Karthika Chandrasekar
Summary
Senior Data Engineer with 8 years of experience, including 3+ years as a Data Engineer and prior experience as a Software Engineer. Proficient in designing, developing, and optimizing data pipelines and analytics solutions using tools such as Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and AWS. Skilled in building scalable and reliable ETL processes to ensure data quality and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions aligned with business objectives. Proven track record of improving data architecture for enhanced performance and reliability.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Data Engineer
Advisor Solutions by Purpose
08.2021 - Current
- Designed and automated data ingestion pipelines using Apache Airflow, leveraging AWS S3 as a data lake
- Expertise in building dbt models for data transformation, implementing data validation using dbt tests, and creating modular and reusable code for analytics pipelines
- Created data quality metrics and built data health dashboards, proactively monitoring and improving data reliability
- Partnered with stakeholders to gather requirements and design scalable data models and ingestion processes aligned with business objectives
- Developed reporting, validation, and monitoring pipeline to track discrepancies between core systems and third-party systems, helping the business identify and address data issues
- Took ownership of data support tasks, streamlining issue triage processes and automating repetitive tasks, saving the team 20+ hours per week and allowing focus on high-priority initiatives
- Worked on data pipeline checkpoints to validate data flow and mask sensitive data
Backend Developer
Tietronix Software, Inc.
07.2019 - 08.2021
- Developed plugins for extending Magic Draw Modelling Tool
- Developed SysML based modelling methodology for Trade analysis in Magic Draw
- Created report template using velocity template language for report generation
- Developing WordPress plugin to support Moodle (LMS) integration
Research Assistant
University of Houston-Clear Lake
01.2018 - 05.2019
- System Administrator for University servers providing support for Unix and Windows systems including server and workstation upgrades, backup and disaster recovery monitoring
- Manage Active Directory and IIS server environment for CSE department
- Developed websites using PHP, MySQL, HTML and CSS for intranet sites used by CSE department
Software Engineer
Aspire Systems
07.2015 - 04.2016
- Contributed to the design and development of a solution for a Banking Company to track and maintain back-office information, mortgages, and consumer credits.
- Involved in client requirement gathering and design documents
- Worked on Agile Methodology to meet timelines with quality deliverables
- Worked on NHibernate, XML and Dependency Injection
- Designed the UI with Silverlight application using PRISM class library
- Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
- Experience in using TFS for version control
Software Engineer
Shriram value Services
06.2013 - 06.2015
- Involved in designing and developing a solution for a Non-Banking Financial Company to track and manage rental and general accounting details.
- Developed web forms in ASP.Net using VB.Net as code-behind language and SQL database for back end
- Written stored procedures, triggers, T-SQL queries in SQL Server
- Developed test plans and participating in Code Testing to ensure workability, completeness, quality
- Optimized the web applications by implementing AJAX
- Implemented MSSQL pagination concept to improve the query performance
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Houston – Clear Lake
Houston, TX05.2019
Bachelor’s - information technology
Sri Ram Engineering College-Anna University
Chennai, TN05.2013
Skills
- Programming Languages: C#, VBNet, C, C, Java, PHP, Python, HTML, JavaScript, SQL
- Data Engineering & ETL: ETL/ELT Pipelines, Apache Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, MySQL
- Cloud Technologies: AWS (S3, EC2, RDS)
- Business Intelligence: Sigma Computing
- Version Control: GitHub
- CI/CD: Jenkins
- Soft Skills: Problem Solving, Stakeholder Communication & Collaboration
Awards
- Recognized for outstanding performance in Database Management System, 12/17, University of Houston - Clear Lake, Professor Dr. Bun Yue in 'Hall of Fame'., http://dcm.uhcl.edu/yue/d163.html
- Co-Author, 'Querying Bitcoin Blockchain Using SQL', 08/18, EDSIG Conference, Norfolk, Virginia USA, Selected for Distinguished Paper Awards (top 10%)., http://proc.iscap.info/2018/best.html
Timeline
Senior Data Engineer
Advisor Solutions by Purpose
08.2021 - Current
Backend Developer
Tietronix Software, Inc.
07.2019 - 08.2021
Research Assistant
University of Houston-Clear Lake
01.2018 - 05.2019
Software Engineer
Aspire Systems
07.2015 - 04.2016
Software Engineer
Shriram value Services
06.2013 - 06.2015
Bachelor’s - information technology
Sri Ram Engineering College-Anna University
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Houston – Clear Lake
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