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Ankush User

@ankushuser6

Data Engineering Manager at Confluent who migrated 300+ Airflow DAGs and built AI agents for data access and pipeline support.

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At Confluent, I lead the data engineering function for the CFO organization and cross-functional data platform. I directed the migration of 300+ Airflow DAGs, improving pipeline reliability and cutting orchestration latency by about 35%.

I also architected a Confluent Cloud-native ingestion solution using Kafka and Flink for real-time financial data, and built a Glean agent that reduced manual routing of table-access requests by about 60%. My work includes data governance, MNPI compliance, and cataloguing with GCP Dataplex.

Earlier at Confluent, I built BigQuery ARR metrics for the move to consumption-based revenue and implemented anomaly detection with BQML. At Walmart Global Tech, I worked on merchant procurement analytics and GPU-based ETL acceleration; at LogMeIn and Infosys, I supported SaaS analytics and enterprise data migration.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Data Engineering Manager

Current

Confluent

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 10 months)

Leading the data engineering function for Confluent's CFO org and cross-functional data platform, driving governance maturity, AI adoption, and infrastructure modernization across a globally distributed data team of 9 members across 3 geo locations.

Airflow Kafka Apache Flink GCP BigQuery Dataplex Revefi Glean Gemini Claude Data Governance AI ML Integration Team Leadership OKR Planning Mentorship

Lead Data Engineer

Confluent

Jun 2022 - Jan 2025 (2 years 7 months)

Owned critical Finance data pipelines under the CFO org, partnering with Business Systems, Field Ops, and Compensation teams to power ARR reporting and sales compensation at a hyper-growth SaaS company.

BigQuery BQML Metronome Airflow Schema Registry Data Governance Anomaly Detection Gemini DataCanvas Workbooks DaaS Change Management

Senior Data Engineer

Walmart Global Tech

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year)

Embedded within the Merchant Intelligence product team, building the data foundation for procurement and supply chain decisions at one of the world's largest retail organisations.

Data Pipelines Procurement Analytics GPU CUDA ETL Data Modeling Mentorship Technical Design Review

Data Engineer

Walmart Global Tech

Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 (2 years)

Built GCP-based consumption pipelines for Sales, Inventory, and Customer Returns data, creating daily/weekly aggregation tables that powered KPI dashboards used by senior leadership.

GCP BigQuery Druid Looker DaaS CI CD Data Quality DET

Software Development Engineer in Test (Data)

LogMeIn

Jan 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years)

Supported the SaaS analytics data platform for GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and collaboration products, tracking product usage KPIs that drove upsell and cross-sell motions.

Tableau Data Quality Anomaly Detection Usage Analytics Billing Validation KPI Tracking