Akash Yadav

Built the data platform end to end (0 → 1) and own it today: raw events land, and everything from there to business-ready tables is mine. Designed and run a medallion architecture in Snowflake, modeled the warehouse in dbt, and built Airflow pipelines on Kubernetes with SLAs and retry semantics.

Designed and maintained Airflow DAGs across Redshift and BigQuery, standardising scheduling, retries, SLA alerting and cross-team dependency management. Built SQL and Spark transformations over high-volume payment datasets, tuning partitioning and shuffle behaviour for throughput and cost.

Built and owned the data behind a loan-loss provision prediction model — engineered the features and training datasets from multi-terabyte credit and repayment history, and developed and validated the model itself with the risk analytics team. Processed multi-terabyte financial datasets with Spark (Scala) and advanced SQL supporting fraud detection and credit-risk analytics for global banking clie

Founding Data Engineer at NymCard, a fintech company specializing in card issuing and payments. Built the data platform end to end, including medallion architecture in Snowflake, dbt models, Airflow pipelines, and data quality systems.

Data Engineer at TransUnion, built and owned data for a loan-loss provision prediction model, processed multi-terabyte financial datasets with Spark and SQL, and implemented data validation and audit frameworks.

Data Engineer at ZS Associates, designing and maintaining Airflow DAGs across Redshift and BigQuery, building SQL and Spark transformations, and implementing CI/CD and observability.