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Harish Manipandi

@harishmanipandi

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Associate Data Engineer at Cognizant who migrated and validated 600+ production Databricks jobs to Unity Catalog.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm seeking Data Engineer or Azure Data Engineer roles across India, the UK, and the US.

At Cognizant, I led the migration of Databricks workloads from legacy Hive Metastore to Unity Catalog, migrating and validating 600+ production jobs while advancing data governance and access control.

At Wipro, I contributed to an on-premises-to-Azure migration and worked with Azure Synapse Analytics and Data Factory pipelines. I also built Informatica ETL pipelines with SCD and incremental-load strategies and supported production systems across on-premises and Azure environments.

In my portfolio, I built a Databricks fraud analytics platform using a star schema and SCD Type 2 dimensions, and a Microsoft Fabric medallion pipeline with incremental refresh. I hold the Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate certification and Microsoft certifications across Fabric, Azure AI, and Azure data fundamentals.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Associate Data Engineer

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Cognizant

Jul 2025 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Led migration of Databricks workloads from legacy Hive Metastore to Unity Catalog, advancing enterprise-wide data governance and access-control modernization. Migrated and validated 600+ production Databricks jobs with minimal business disruption and a high deployment success rate.

Databricks Unity Catalog HiveMetastore YAML GitHub CI CD Data Governance Access Control

Data Engineer

Wipro

May 2022 - Jul 2025 (3 years 2 months)

Contributed to an on-premises-to-Azure cloud migration, working directly with Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Factory pipelines and orchestration for enterprise data pipelines. Delivered hybrid L3 production support and development across on-premises and Azure environments.