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Jeevan Kumar perikala

@jeevankumarperikala

Senior Data Engineer at Cognizant who migrated 180+ Informatica workflows to Azure Databricks.

India
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At Cognizant Technology Solutions, I build and operate ETL/ELT pipelines over 12+ TB of enterprise data. For Suncorp, I built an automated cross-platform validation framework for Azure Databricks and Amazon Redshift, replacing manual SQL checks and spreadsheet reconciliation.

For Grünenthal, I led six engineers in migrating reporting to Azure Databricks and re-engineered 250+ dashboards and data flows. For Novartis, I led three engineers migrating 180+ Informatica workflows to Databricks, reducing ETL maintenance overhead by 45%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Senior Data Engineer

Aug 2025 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Engineer data services across Azure Databricks and Amazon Redshift, spanning ingestion, transformation, validation and reconciliation for enterprise data products. Designed and built an automated cross-platform validation framework (PySpark + SQL) comparing complete catalogs, and implemented reconciliation controls with audit-ready reporting.

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Current

Senior Data Engineer / Tech Lead

Feb 2022 - Present (4 years 9 months)

Build and operate ETL/ELT pipelines over 12+ TB of enterprise data using Spark, Azure Databricks, Airflow and SQL for global clients. Improved ETL throughput by 28% through Spark tuning, reduced manual configuration by 50% with Terraform, and accelerated releases by 35% through CI/CD.

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Data Engineer

Calvin Technology Solutions

Jan 2017 - Jan 2022 (5 years)

Built batch ETL pipelines with Informatica and Talend, moving data from Oracle and MySQL into Hadoop and Hive. Developed HiveQL and Spark transformations and Sqoop ingestion jobs for reporting and analytics, and scheduled production workloads with Control-M.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

PT

Project Management Training

Project Management Training, Project Management

Completed 100+ hours of PMBOK-aligned project management training covering Agile, Scrum, risk, and stakeholder management.

VS

Vignan's Lara Institute of Technology & Science

Bachelor of Technology, Technology

Bachelor of Technology degree from Vignan's Lara Institute of Technology & Science, JNTU, Guntur, completed in 2017.

TD

Talend Big Data

Talend Big Data, Data Integration

Training in Talend Big Data covering data integration and pipeline orchestration.

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