Ishu Pokhrel

I am a Senior Data Engineer with 6+ years delivering enterprise-scale, secure, cloud-native data platforms across insurance, healthcare, and financial sectors, specializing in real-time processing, data lakes/lakehouses, and analytics on AWS and Azure. I design and implement scalable batch and streaming pipelines, CI/CD-enabled workflows, OLAP models, and event-driven APIs to support fraud detection, underwriting, regulatory reporting, and clinical intelligence.

I have led cross-functional teams, mentored engineers, and driven governance, observability, and security programs aligned with HIPAA, PCI, and SOC 2 standards, while optimizing costs and enabling production ML scoring and real-time inference. My hands-on tech leadership includes Delta Lake, PySpark, Spark Structured Streaming, Kafka, dbt, Airflow, Terraform, Redshift, Snowflake, SageMaker, Great Expectations, and monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana.