
Sunil Aryal
@sunilaryal
I build compliant Databricks lakehouse platforms and reliable data pipelines for regulated industries.
What I'm looking for
I've led data platform modernization for Merck, European Commercial Bank, Deutsche Börse, and Atlas Copco, building production-grade lakehouse and reporting systems for regulated, high-stakes operations.
At Merck, I architected an AWS and Databricks clinical data lakehouse integrating four source systems across 200+ active trials, improved release reliability by 40%, and automated HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant PHI masking. For banking and market infrastructure clients, I've rebuilt finance pipelines to 99.9% uptime and automated real-time settlement reconciliation to under 30 minutes.
I also apply data-engineering rigor to AI products through LLM evaluation, RAG testing, and guardrail analysis. Across Python, PySpark, dbt, Databricks, AWS, and Azure, I build observable, automated platforms that reduce operational risk and help teams ship faster.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Data and Analytics Engineer
SunnyDataInc
Jun 2026 - Present (3 months)
Architected a Tableau-to-Databricks dashboard migration tool using Claude, and led a BigQuery-to-Databricks migration for Amway, building discovery tooling and architecture plans.
Senior Data Engineer & AI Consultant
LarkByte
Jul 2023 - Present (3 years 2 months)
Engaged directly by enterprise clients across pharma, banking, and financial-market infrastructure to lead platform modernization and compliance-critical data engineering.
Architected a clinical data lakehouse on AWS and Databricks integrating 4 source systems across 200+ active trials, increasing release reliability 40%. Automated PHI masking and de-identification for HIPAA and GDPR compliance, and replaced manual deployments with Terraform and CI/CD.
LLM & AI Evaluation Engineer
Outlier
Jul 2023 - May 2026 (2 years 10 months)
Designed adversarial test cases for LLM tool calls, RAG pipelines, and guardrail behavior, improving factual grounding 30%. Built structured evaluation frameworks reducing human review time 25%.
Finance Data Platform Engineer
European Commercial Bank
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025 (1 year 1 month)
Rebuilt finance and GL reporting pipelines on PySpark, dbt, and Databricks, eliminating recurring outages and sustaining 99.9% uptime. Automated CI/CD deployments and instrumented 24/7 observability with Splunk, CloudWatch, and Dynatrace.
CSDR Settlement Reporting Engineer
Deutsche Börse
Jul 2023 - Dec 2023 (5 months)
Engineered a Databricks medallion architecture with Delta Live Tables, consolidating settlement data across 192 member banks for CSDR reporting. Automated reconciliation, reducing settlement resolution from hours to under 30 minutes.
Migrated legacy platforms to Apache Spark on Azure Databricks, reducing report downtime 40% and maintenance costs 20%. Automated metadata enrichment with Azure Purview and built ETL pipelines processing 2+ TB daily.
Reduced production downtime 50% as an on-call engineer for Zscaler's Big Data platform. Designed and maintained Airflow-orchestrated pipelines and Spark frameworks, and built a Pytest-based testing framework.
Education
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Masaryk University
Master of Science, Software Systems and Services Management
Pursued a Master of Science in Software Systems and Services Management at Masaryk University.
Chandigarh University
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering
Earned a Bachelor of Engineering with Honors in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in IBM Big Data.
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