NAKCHATRA RAGHUVANSHI
Senior Data Engineer
Mississauga,ON
Summary
Experienced Data & Analytics Architect with a strategic and hands-on approach, boasting 14+ years of expertise in crafting and implementing cloud-scale data solutions. Recognized for driving cloud adoption through technical engagements, PoCs, and secure architecture design. Trusted advisor to enterprise platform teams specializing in Microsoft Azure Data & Analytics services including Fabric, Databricks, and Purview. Bringing a wealth of knowledge and skills to propel organizations towards data-driven success.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
SPECIALIST DATA DEVELOPER
Canadian National Railway
05.2023 - Current
- Led technical engagements and workshops to demonstrate the value of Delta Lakehouse on Azure.
- Delivered secure, metadata-driven ingestion frameworks using Informatica IICS, ADF, and Azure Databricks.
- Collaborated with platform leads to design scalable data lake architectures aligned with governance standards.
- Resolved technical blockers related to ingestion and orchestration, improving pipeline reliability and throughput.
- Maintained subject matter expertise across Azure Analytics stack and contributed insights to internal product teams.
TEAM LEAD - DATA ENGINEERING
Infosys Ltd
06.2020 - 05.2023
- Delivered PoCs and production-ready pipelines integrating Snowflake and Azure using Databricks and ADF.
- Conducted hackathons and co-design sessions with business and engineering stakeholders.
- Integrated data quality checks via DBT and automated orchestration using Dagster.
- Improved production monitoring and enabled observability features through Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
- Mentored junior engineers and influenced design standards for cloud-first data platforms.
TECHNOLOGY ANALYST
Infosys Ltd
05.2015 - 05.2020
- Migrated legacy Hadoop pipelines to Google Cloud for major banking clients.
- Designed secure AML processing pipelines for HSBC across multi-region environments.
- Built scalable Hive/Pig workflows to process 100+ GB/day into enterprise data stores.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ANALYST
Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
04.2011 - 04.2015
- Built ETL pipelines using IBM DataStage and Teradata for financial and telecom clients.
- Automated data validations and implemented operational workflows via Control-M and Unix scripting.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
Dr. Kedar Nath Modi Institute of Technology
01.2006 - 01.2010
Skills
Azure (Fabric, Databricks, Purview, Synapse, SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL)
GCP
Azure Data Factory
Informatica IICS
Delta Live Tables
DBT
Hive
Pig
PySpark
SQL
Shell Scripting
Azure DevOps
CI/CD
Dagster
GitHub
Metadata-driven pipelines
Lakehouse design
Secure data movement
Teradata
Netezza
Exadata
Hadoop Ecosystem
Certification
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Leadership Engagements
- Led architecture workshops and hackathons to drive solution design.
- Acted as technical liaison between customer engineering teams and Microsoft product groups.
- Provided thought leadership through knowledge sharing, best practices, and forums.
- Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders to unblock production deployments and accelerate go-live cycles.
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 10 data engineers.
- Achieved 40% efficiency by optimizing data ingestion pipelines.
Timeline
SPECIALIST DATA DEVELOPER
Canadian National Railway
05.2023 - Current
TEAM LEAD - DATA ENGINEERING
Infosys Ltd
06.2020 - 05.2023
TECHNOLOGY ANALYST
Infosys Ltd
05.2015 - 05.2020
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ANALYST
Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
04.2011 - 04.2015
B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
Dr. Kedar Nath Modi Institute of Technology
01.2006 - 01.2010