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Bhushan Bende

@bhushanbende

Results-driven Senior Data & Platform Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale data pipelines.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior role building scalable streaming and data platforms, focusing on performance, reliability, and cross-team collaboration in cloud-native environments.

Experienced Senior Data Platform Engineer with 8+ years of expertise in designing, building, and managing scalable data platforms and real-time streaming systems. Skilled in Apache Kafka (Strimzi, MSK, Confluent Cloud), Apache Flink, Apache Beam, Spark, and AWS Glue for large-scale data processing and streaming analytics.

Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, and DynamoDB for storage, indexing, caching, and fast data retrieval. Proficient in deploying and orchestrating data services on Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS EKS using Helm and FluxCD.

Focused on building zone-aware, cost-optimized architectures leveraging S3-based storage, OpenEBS, and rack-aware Kafka replication to minimize cross-zone network costs. Adept at developing resilient ETL pipelines, implementing retry and error-handling mechanisms, and ensuring high availability and data integrity across distributed systems.

Strong programming foundation in Python and SQL, with experience automating workflows using Airflow and integrating data across real-time and batch systems. Passionate about optimizing performance, improving reliability, and driving innovation in cloud-native data ecosystems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead AWS Data & AI Consultant

Current

Wurth IT

Mar 2026 - Present (4 months)

I'm Lead Consultant, building Distributed Data Platform and AI/ML Engineering Infrastructure

Current

Lead AWS Consultant

Current

Wuerth IT

Mar 2026 - Present (4 months)

Architected AWS CDK infrastructure for Wuerth Group product recommendation, building scalable data/ML pipelines that integrate Databricks with LLM components and RAG for AI-driven product discovery. Designed real-time user-activity tracking and ML-based recommendations for e-commerce, enabling dynamic pricing and personalized, revenue-optimized experiences.

AWS CDK Databricks Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)Machine Learning Pipelines Real Time Tracking Event Driven Architecture Product Recommendation Systems

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Onclusive

Oct 2022 - Present (3 years 9 months)

Experienced Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Python development, API building, and data pipeline construction. Skilled in working with Python-Fast API, AWS Lambda, AWS Managed Streaming Application pyFlink, and self-managed Flink Cluster. Proficient in Performance And Cost Optimisation

Python AWS Lambda Flink Java Jira Rally Software Testing Kafka Redis Elasticsearch Kubernetes Docker AWS AWS CloudFormation AWS Services AWS IAM AWS Glue ETL ETL Processes ELT ELT Development Git GitHub GitHub Actions

Software Engineer

TSYS

May 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 5 months)

Implemented and tested payment gateway integrations for a unified commerce platform, authored automation and API test suites, and supported merchant onboarding and transaction orchestration across multiple downstream gateways.

API Testing Postman JMeter SQL Automation Testing Payment Integration CI CD

Software Engineer

TSYS (Global Payments)

May 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 5 months)

Built backend services for a unified commerce platform enabling merchants to switch transaction gateways dynamically with zero code changes, including internal transaction routing and transformation logic. Developed an integration layer for Mind-Body merchant onboarding and payment processing flows with multiple payment processors (ProPay, Trans-IT, Sound Payment, PAX, Express), including POS devi

Backend Services Payment Processors Device Management API Integration REST APIs Microservices data transformation

Engineer

Altimetrik

Jan 2021 - May 2021 (4 months)

Contributed to engineering initiatives (short-term engagement) focused on software delivery and automation within platform teams.

Python Java Docker Kubernetes CI CD Automation API Development

Associate

Cognizant Technology

Jun 2018 - Jan 2021 (2 years 7 months)

Worked on enterprise projects involving testing, automation, and API integrations, producing test cases, defect reports, and automation scripts to support releases.

API Testing Selenium TestNG Jira SQL Manual Testing

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Jun 2018 - Jan 2021 (2 years 7 months)

Worked on software engineering and systems integration across enterprise financial and capital markets systems, supporting delivery of integrated backend functionality.

Enterprise Systems Integration Backend Development API Development SQL AWS Architecture CI CD Data Integration