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Buddhi Sagar Poudel

@buddhisagarpoudel

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Data Engineer specializing in scalable ETL/ELT, streaming systems, and cloud data architectures.

Nepal

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building scalable data platforms and data pipelines, ETL, machine learning, AI development in collaborative teams, with opportunities to mentor, research, and adopt emerging data/AI technologies.

I am a Data Engineer with a solid foundation in big data, cloud platforms, and data architecture, experienced in designing scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming systems, and data lakes/warehouses to support analytics and BI.

I have led migrations to Iceberg, built multi-threaded and config-driven ETL engines, implemented SCD Type-2 MDM, designed data lineage pipelines, and worked on real-time Kafka pipelines; I also mentor new hires and interns.

I'm an AI enthusiast with hands-on exposure to ML and modern generative AI (LLMs, RAG, agentic AI), and I build end-to-end solutions on AWS, GCP, and Azure to enable data-driven decision-making.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Data Engineer

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ExtensoData Pvt. Ltd.

Sep 2024 - Present (1 year)

Led migration of data infrastructure to Iceberg, improving performance, scalability, and reliability; developed and optimized ETL/ELT pipelines and real-time Kafka processing for loyalty pipelines. Designed config-driven multi-threaded ETL engines, data aging/compression modules, and data lineage pipelines while mentoring new hires.

Apache Iceberg Apache Spark Python SQL Kafka ETL HDFS Pentaho Data Lineage

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Freelance Data Engineer

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Freelance

Jun 2023 - Present (2 years 3 months)

Delivered end-to-end ETL and ML solutions including an AWS-based ride-fare prediction pipeline processing 1+ billion rows and GCP-based near-real-time user behavior analytics with dashboards for e-commerce monitoring.

AWS Glue S3 Sagemaker Dataflow BigQuery ETL Looker Studio

AI Fellowship Participant

Fusemachines Nepal Pvt. Ltd.

May 2024 - Oct 2024 (5 months)

Completed an AI/ML fellowship covering classical ML, deep learning, generative AI, LLMs, computer vision, and MLOps with hands-on projects in training, fine-tuning, deployment, and monitoring of models.

Machine Learning Deep Learning LLMs)Generative AI Computer Vision NLP MLOps

Data Intern

F1Soft International Pvt. Ltd.

May 2024 - Sep 2024 (4 months)

Built ETL pipelines on Microsoft Fabric and Azure to automate ingestion and transformation, implemented ML-driven analysis and Power BI dashboards, and assisted in dimensional modeling and OLAP warehouse design.