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Prasanna Panday

@prasannapanday

Senior Data Engineer specializing in SQL performance tuning and enterprise data platforms delivering secure, scalable analytics.

United States
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I’m a Senior Data Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, optimizing, and supporting enterprise-scale data platforms and high-volume transactional systems. I focus on SQL performance tuning, OLTP database design, data modeling, ETL development, migrations, and production support for mission-critical applications.

At Cigna, I architected enterprise-scale data services supporting 20TB+ daily clinical and claims transactions across AWS and Databricks, achieving 99.9% availability while reducing data latency by 35%. I engineered SQL and PySpark performance improvements that reduced query execution times by 40% and strengthened SLA compliance.

I build reliability and data trust through automation: automated database validation and reconciliation reduced data quality incidents by 60% and accelerated issue detection to under 15 minutes. I’ve also delivered secure data migration pipelines across Oracle and PostgreSQL (and cloud-based integrations), and improved incident response efficiency by 45% using operational monitoring and alerting.

Previously, at Optum and Liberty Mutual, I optimized ETL/ELT and SQL workloads (including cloud-native transformations) to cut execution time by 25%, improve reporting delivery by more than three hours daily, and raise production uptime to 98%. Earlier in my career as a Backend Developer, I built high-performance services with Python frameworks and tuned database access patterns to improve response times by 35%, partnering closely with engineers and operations to keep systems stable and scalable.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Cigna logoCI
Current

Senior Data Engineer

Apr 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)

Architected enterprise-scale data services supporting 20TB+ daily clinical and claims transactions, achieving 99.9% availability and reducing data latency by 35%. Improved SQL and PySpark performance by 40%, reduced data quality incidents by 60%, and increased incident response efficiency by 45% through monitoring and automated validation.

Optum logoOP

Data Engineer

Sep 2022 - Mar 2024 (1 year 6 months)

Designed and maintained enterprise ETL pipelines for millions of healthcare transactions using BigQuery and Databricks, reducing SQL/transform execution time by 25% and improving reporting delivery by 3+ hours daily. Improved production uptime to 98% and led migration of legacy database workloads to scalable cloud-native architectures while maintaining transactional consistency.

Bank of America logoBA

Backend Developer

Jun 2019 - Apr 2021 (1 year 10 months)

Developed high-performance backend services for enterprise financial applications using Python (Flask/Django) and Oracle/MySQL, improving transactional response times by 35% through SQL tuning and indexing. Built REST APIs for real-time transaction processing and implemented authentication/authorization with OAuth2 and JWT, supporting incident response and deployment automation with Kubernetes and

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

The University of Texas at Arlington logoTA

The University of Texas at Arlington

Bachelor of Science in Information Systems, Information Systems

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from The University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, Texas.

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