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Sharath Kumar

@sharathkumar1

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Senior Data Engineer delivering scalable, secure cloud-native data platforms and real-time analytics.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can architect cloud-native data platforms, lead engineers, operationalize ML/real-time pipelines, and drive governance and cost optimization.

I am a Senior Data Engineer with 7+ years building cloud-native, compliant data platforms across healthcare, banking, retail, telecom, and insurance. I design and optimize ETL/ELT and streaming architectures using Azure, AWS, and GCP, improving performance, reducing costs, and enabling real-time decisioning for fraud detection, patient monitoring, and analytics.

I lead teams to implement Lakehouse architectures, CI/CD, metadata-driven frameworks, and data governance that meet HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR, and PCI requirements. I collaborate with data scientists to operationalize ML pipelines and drive FinOps, observability, and automation to deliver reliable, auditable, and high-performance data solutions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Engineer

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Project – X

May 2023 - Present (3 years 1 month)

Designed and implemented scalable Azure data platforms and real-time pipelines for healthcare, reducing ETL runtimes 30%+ and cutting monthly cloud costs by 25% while ensuring HIPAA-compliant governance.

Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse Databricks Delta Lake Kafka Pyspark Azure DevOps DBT Power BI

Data Engineer

Ford

Jun 2021 - May 2023 (1 year 11 months)

Built cloud-native ETL/ELT and streaming pipelines across Azure and GCP, improving reporting performance ~45% and reducing cloud spend by 20% through FinOps and auto-scaling.

Azure Data Factory Synapse Databricks BigQuery Pub Sub DBT Pyspark Power BI Terraform Airflow

Data Analyst

Cognizant

Aug 2019 - Jun 2021 (1 year 10 months)

Developed scalable telecom data pipelines and migration to cloud-native architectures, lowering infrastructure costs by ~30% and enabling high-performance analytics for CDRs and network telemetry.