Sujay Shandilaya
@sujayshandilaya
Senior Data & AI Engineer building agentic AI and cloud-scale data pipelines.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Data & AI Engineer with 7+ years of experience architecting cloud-scale infrastructure and high-performance data pipelines, using Snowflake and BigQuery to turn raw data into reliable products. I specialize in bridging traditional data engineering with Generative AI by building Agentic AI workflows, LLM orchestration, and RAG systems.
At Ford Motor Company, I built an LLM-powered agent with Chainlit that converts natural language into SQL and interactive charts, improving self-service analytics efficiency by 80% for non-technical users. I also developed an Agentic RAG application to automate retrieval from unstructured files, reducing stakeholder data-discovery time by 40% through natural-language querying of internal knowledge.
Across my roles, I’ve delivered measurable impact by designing serverless ETL on GCP (BigQuery, Composer) to improve data availability by 30%, and creating analytics solutions on Azure Databricks with ADLS Gen2 and Parquet that drove a 40% increase in data-driven sales and marketing. I’ve also improved reporting speed by 80% and reduced data costs by 30% using Airflow and Redshift, while migrating large warehouses (10,000+ objects) from Teradata to BigQuery with Hive and Sqoop.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior AI & Analytics Engineer
Ford Motor Company
Apr 2024 - Present (2 years 2 months)
Built an LLM-powered agent with Chainlit to convert natural language into SQL and interactive charts, increasing non-technical self-service analytics efficiency by 80%. Developed an Agentic RAG application to automate retrieval from unstructured files and reduce data-discovery time by 40%.
GCP Data Engineer
Datametica Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Aug 2023 - Mar 2024 (7 months)
Built serverless ETL pipelines on GCP (BigQuery and Composer) to automate data ingestion and increase data availability by 30%. Managed CI/CD for data workflows using GitHub Actions and Jenkins while coordinating delivery with global stakeholders.
Data Engineer
Data Aces
Jun 2022 - Jun 2023 (1 year)
Developed an analytics application on Azure Databricks using ADLS Gen2 and Parquet files, increasing data-driven sales and marketing by 40%. Built Power BI and Tableau dashboards to deliver actionable insights across key business metrics.
Cloud Data Engineer
iLink Digital, Inc.
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021 (10 months)
Increased reporting speed by 80% using Airflow and Redshift and reduced data costs by 30% through optimized query performance. Ensured reliability and availability of Redshift clusters and data pipelines with monitoring and maintenance via Amazon CloudWatch.
Big Data Engineer
Datametica Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Sep 2018 - Sep 2020 (2 years)
Optimized BigQuery processing by building efficient ETL pipelines with Airflow and Control-M, reducing processing time by more than 25% while improving accuracy. Migrated a large-scale Teradata-based warehouse (10,000+ objects) to BigQuery using Hive and Sqoop for ETL.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
The University of Texas at Dallas
Master of Science, Business Analytics
Completed an M.S. in Business Analytics at The University of Texas at Dallas.
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology
Earned a B.E. in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai.
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