Prasuna Bista
@prasunabista
Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud-native scalable data platforms and ETL modernization.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a Senior Data Engineer with over six years building cloud-based data architectures, refactoring legacy ETL into modular Python and DBT pipelines, and delivering scalable batch and real-time solutions using Spark, Databricks, Kafka, and cloud services across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
I have led cross-functional teams, automated infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD, enforced data governance for HIPAA/GDPR compliance, and supported ML pipelines with MLflow and SageMaker—consistently improving pipeline reliability, reducing costs, and enabling data-driven decisions.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Designed scalable ETL and streaming pipelines processing over 5TB/day using PySpark, Databricks, and Dataflow; migrated on-prem systems to cloud and reduced provisioning effort by 70% while cutting pipeline failures by 40%.
Analytics Engineer
Bank of America
Jun 2021 - Jan 2024 (2 years 7 months)
Built modular ETL pipelines with Azure Data Factory, Databricks and Matillion, migrated on-prem workloads to Snowflake/BigQuery reducing infrastructure costs by 40% and achieving 95% job success rate.
ETL Developer / Data Analyst
Charles Schwab
Jul 2019 - May 2021 (1 year 10 months)
Engineered Hadoop and cloud ETL pipelines using AWS Glue, Informatica and Spark, improving data ingestion speed by 30% and enabling self-service reporting via Redshift and Snowflake.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
William Jessup University
Master of Science, Computer Science
Completed a Master's program in Computer Science focused on advanced computing concepts and applied data engineering techniques.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Matillion
Azure Synapse
Apache Spark
AWS Glue
Apache Flink
Talend
Google Cloud Platform
AWS Step Functions
GitHub
GitLab
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitLab CI
Salesforce
NumPy
Pandas
PySpark
dbt
Sqoop
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Cassandra
Hadoop
HBase
Google Cloud Spanner
Gmail
Django
Laravel
Databricks
Redis
Terraform
Azure DevOps
Jira
JavaScript
Java
JSON
XML
TensorFlow
PyTorch
MLflow
scikit-learn
HubSpot
Kafka
FastAPI
Grafana
Kibana
OpenTelemetry
Azure Monitor
Linux
Google Cloud Dataflow
Elasticsearch
Avro
AWS Lambda
Airflow
s3-lambda
SQL
ServiceNow
Hugging Face
Clickhouse
Dagster
Apache Iceberg
Temporal
LangChain
Weaviate
Pinecone
Apache Hudi
Starburst
Bash
Transform
Availability
Location
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Job categories
Skills
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