Nirmala Yarra
Greater Toronto Area, Milton,Canada,
Summary
10+ years of overall IT experience and over 5 years of experience as a Data Engineer, with a background in working with Big Data technologies such as Python, MySQL, PySpark, AWS EC2, GitHub, CI/CD, Agile development, Adobe, Jenkins, Databricks, and Azure pipelines.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Engineer - Data Engineering
Altimetrik
Banaglore
06.2025 - 11.2025
- Contributed to a finance-focused project by streamlining engineering workflows, developing robust ETL pipelines to centralize raw transactional data in S3, and implementing data validation and schema evolution checks to ensure high-quality, reliable data for sales compensation analytics, and maintain compliance with data governance standards.
- Technologies used: SQL, AWS EC2, S3, ADAPT, and data pipelines.
- Financial technology: Data engineer.
Sr. Associate – Projects
Cognizant
Bangalore
10.2023 - 05.2025
- The existing preference center (Epsilon) has certain limitations. To overcome this, a new preference center, OneTrust, has been proposed. OneTrust offers the capability to access real-time user preferences, which is crucial for enhanced data handling and user experience.
- API Integration: Utilized various API calls to retrieve and process preferences and related data from OneTrust, ensuring seamless integration with AbbVie's database.
- Technology Used: Python, postman, azure pipelines, Pyspark, Hive, SQL
- Life sciences client – Tech lead:
Module Lead
LTIMindtree
Bangalore
10.2021 - 09.2023
- E-commerce client
- Extract transforms load data from different source systems like Adobe & Amplitude using API calls using technologies like Python, PySpark and spark SQL and processing the data
- Created automated pipelines in Jenkins to extract load and transform data from Adobe 2.0
- Developed a few scripts as part of enhancements.
- Technology Used: Python, Adobe, GIT, Jenkins, Pyspark, Exasol DB, Agile development, CI/CD pipelines
Python Developer
Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
09.2020 - 10.2021
- Banking application
- It is a Bank of America's comprehensive risk analytics platform used for enterprise, wholesale, retail, and consumer portfolios.
- This platform generates reports for allowance measurement, forecasting and capital adequacy for BofA portfolios which is in turn used by fed reserve reporting team.
- In generally it deals with loss forecasting for consumers and wholesale analytics for cashflow, charge off and asset quality determination.
- Technology Used: Python, SQL, Postman, Git and Toad for oracle, Hive.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for identifying and analyzing user stories for feasibility.
- Working closely with the team members also collaborating with other teams.
- Need to write workflows using python (pandas, PySpark modules) to enhance the platform capabilities
Member of Technical Staff
Netskope Ind Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
12.2014 - 09.2020
- Responsible to write optimized code to fetch hosting provider name and list of possible provider locations where cloud application can be hosted.
- Technology Used: Python, MySQL, GIT, AWS EC2 service.
- Key Responsibilities:
- We gather a list of IPs by resolving the known domains of the app from database.
- Then we use geolocation data of these IPs to find the list of countries from which the app's data is served.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
JNTU
Kakinada05.2014
Skills
- Python
- PySpark
- Git
- MySQL, MongoDB
- SQL
- Jenkins
- AWS EC2
- S3
- Azure Pipelines
- Databricks
Certification
- Databricks Certified - Databricks Developer Essentials.
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Accomplishments
- Award Hats Off (09/2022)
- For achieving the outstanding customer outcomes.
Timeline
Staff Engineer - Data Engineering
Altimetrik
06.2025 - 11.2025
Sr. Associate – Projects
Cognizant
10.2023 - 05.2025
Module Lead
LTIMindtree
10.2021 - 09.2023
Python Developer
Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd
09.2020 - 10.2021
Member of Technical Staff
Netskope Ind Pvt Ltd
12.2014 - 09.2020
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
JNTU