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Madima Bala Shrestha

@madimabalashrestha

Senior Data Engineer specializing in scalable GCP lakehouse, streaming pipelines, and cost-optimized production data platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can design scalable, secure cloud data platforms (preferably GCP), drive migration/modernization, optimize costs, and enable analytics/ML in collaborative, compliance-focused teams.

I am a Senior Data Engineer with over six years of experience designing, building, and optimizing large-scale data platforms, primarily on Google Cloud Platform. I specialize in end-to-end data engineering solutions—BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc (Spark), Pub/Sub—and modernizing legacy systems into scalable lakehouse and data warehouse architectures.

At Pfizer, I reduced processing latency by 40%, cut infrastructure spend by 30% ($450k), led on-prem to GCP migrations with HIPAA/FDA compliance, and implemented real-time ingestion for near real-time analytics. Previously, I modernized workloads into Snowflake and AWS Glue pipelines, improved availability and throughput, and operationalized ML pipelines with SageMaker.

I emphasize secure, cost-optimized, production-grade implementations using Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and governance (Dataplex/Data Catalog). I deliver measurable business impact—faster analytics, improved reliability, and compliance—while enabling advanced AI/ML initiatives.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Data Engineer

Current

Pfizer

Feb 2024 - Present (2 years)

Led design and optimization of scalable GCP data pipelines for clinical, manufacturing, and sales domains, reducing processing latency 40% and cutting infrastructure spend 30% ($450k) through right-sizing and storage lifecycle strategies.

BigQuery Dataflow Pub Sub Cloud Storage Terraform Data Governance

Data Engineer

Northwestern Mutual

Feb 2022 - Feb 2024 (2 years)

Modernized ETL to ELT on GCP, building BigQuery-based dimensional models and automated orchestration that improved reporting efficiency and pipeline reliability while enforcing enterprise security controls.

BigQuery Cloud Build SQL CI CD

Senior Data Engineer

Signify Health

Feb 2020 - Feb 2022 (2 years)

Engineered serverless AWS data pipelines and migrated workloads to Snowflake, improving availability 35%, reducing processing delays 50%, and cutting annual cloud costs by $300k via right-sizing.