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Bishal Manandhar

@bishalmanandhar

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Senior Data Engineer building governed multi-cloud ELT platforms for reliable, compliant analytics.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead multi-cloud data platform work—building governed ELT pipelines, improving performance and reliability, and partnering with audit/security to deliver compliant, cost-efficient analytics at scale.

I’m a Senior Data Engineer with 6+ years of experience building scalable cloud data platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP in healthcare, banking, and insurance environments. I focus on ELT pipelines that support reliable analytics, regulatory reporting, and governed data products.

I specialize in designing and optimizing workflows with Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, dbt, and Airflow/Cloud Composer—strengthening data quality automation, performance, and operational reliability. In recent roles, I improved consistency and SLA reliability by 20%, reduced maintenance by 40%, and cut ingestion issues by 25% through automation, validation, and smarter model design.

I bring a strong compliance mindset—handling PHI/PII masking, RBAC, RLS/CLS, and standards aligned to HIPAA/PCI—while tuning warehouses (partitioning/clustering/pruning) to reduce latency and improve refresh cycles. I also enjoy building reusable, production-ready components (CDC ingestion, HL7/FHIR processing, reusable dbt/SQL) that make onboarding faster and systems easier to operate.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Engineer

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Baptist Health

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 4 months)

Built and optimized ELT/ETL pipelines across Azure Databricks, BigQuery, and Snowflake, improving data consistency and SLA reliability by 20%. Orchestrated GCP production pipelines with Cloud Composer (Airflow) and redesigned dbt models for HEDIS/RAF/risk, reducing ongoing maintenance workload by 40%.

Azure Databricks BigQuery Snowflake DBT Pyspark SQL ETL

Senior Data Engineer

Bank OZK

Nov 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 1 month)

Built and optimized ELT pipelines across AWS Glue, ADF, Snowflake, and Synapse, reducing credit-risk/regulatory reruns by 25%. Developed dbt models for CECL and underwriting, improving audit readiness and lineage visibility for regulated datasets.

AWS Glue Azure Data Factory Snowflake Azure Synapse DBT CDC Ingestion SQL Python Data Migration (Teradata To GCP)

Data Engineer

Hippo Insurance

Apr 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 5 months)

Built and optimized Databricks ELT pipelines for claims, underwriting, and policy data, improving reliability and reducing manual fixes by 20%. Implemented ingestion with Fivetran, APIs, and PySpark into BigQuery and Snowflake, increasing freshness by 18% and reducing latency.

Databricks BigQuery Snowflake Fivetran Pyspark DBT Airflow Data Ingestion ELT

Associate Data Engineer

Beaumont Health

Jan 2021 - Mar 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Supported ADF and Databricks pipelines for clinical datasets, improving stability and downstream availability by 12%. Built SQL/PySpark validation checks for schema drift, null anomalies, and formatting errors to improve clinical reporting accuracy.

Azure Data Factory Databricks Synapse DBT Pyspark SQL Data Validation Schema Drift Detection

Data Engineer

Next Insurance

Nov 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Assisted with AWS Glue ETL workflows, supporting daily policy and claims data loads and improving load consistency over time. Monitored Airflow DAGs processing S3 and Kafka inputs to identify schema issues, missing files, and timing delays and escalate when needed.

AWS Glue Airflow Kafka Pyspark SQL Data Validation