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Sai Merugu

@saimerugu

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Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud-native ETL, analytics, and governance for healthcare and enterprise data.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior data engineering role building cloud-native, secure, and scalable data platforms with strong collaboration, automation, and growth opportunities.

I am a Senior Data Engineer with hands-on experience building cloud-first data platforms across Azure, AWS, and GCP, focused on delivering analytics-ready datasets and governed data solutions.

I have designed and implemented scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, PySpark, AWS Glue, and Airflow, and built dimensional models and Lakehouses to support BI and advanced analytics.

My work emphasizes data quality, security, and compliance — including HIPAA/PHI controls, RBAC, RLS, and data governance with Microsoft Purview — while automating CI/CD, IaC, and operational workflows for reliable delivery.

I collaborate closely with analysts and BI teams to optimize semantic models, improve performance, and enable trusted reporting, bringing a pragmatic focus on performance optimization, documentation, and maintainability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Engineer

Current

RELEX Solutions

Mar 2024 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Built and maintained Azure data pipelines and Microsoft Fabric lakehouses, improving data reliability and delivering analytics-ready datasets while enforcing HIPAA/PHI compliance and automating CI/CD.

Azure Data Factory Microsoft Fabric Python Data Modeling Azure DevOps

Digital Specialist Engineer

Infosys Ltd

Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year)

Designed scalable Azure and PySpark data pipelines and dimensional models for clinical data, implemented data quality frameworks and HIPAA/PHI controls, and optimized Synapse workloads for analytics.

Azure Data Factory Pyspark Azure Synapse Data Modeling Python Data Quality HIPAA

Data Engineer

Exposys Data Lab

Jan 2020 - Aug 2022 (2 years 7 months)

Developed and optimized AWS Glue and PySpark ETL pipelines, built dimensional models on Redshift and Snowflake, and implemented Airflow orchestration and CI/CD practices to support supply chain analytics.

AWS Glue Pyspark Amazon S3 Redshift Snowflake Apache Airflow Python Data Warehousing Jenkins

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science focusing on foundational computer science principles and software engineering practices.

University of North Texas

Master of Science, Computer and Information Science

2023 - 2025

Grade: 3.7 GPA

Activities and societies: Relevant courses: Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Feature Engineering; Big Data and Data Science; AI for Health and Informatics; Human-Computer Interaction.

Master's in Computer and Information Science with coursework in machine learning, deep learning, feature engineering, big data, AI for health, and human-computer interaction; graduated with a 3.7 GPA.