Drishti Nishchhal Sahu
Bengaluru
Summary
Results driven Data Engineering Leader with 17+ years of experience architecting scalable data platforms and leading data engineering teams across Retail, Supply Chain, Logistics, Cruiselines, DGCA and Travel & Hospitality.
Hands-on with Snowflake Cortex,Custom Skills, Agents and modern data stack tooling. Proven ability to develop R&D and Tech Squad teams, define engineering standards, best practices, create reusable accelerators and run Communities of Practice that scale outcomes across multiple projects and stakeholders.Leading and implementing various org level AI and Snowflake initiatives within Tredence.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr Architect Data Engineering
Tredence Inc
Bangalore
07.2025 - Current
- Lead org level AI & Snowflake initiatives,architected Cortex Code Custom Skills, R&D on latest Snowflake features.
- Architected end-to-end pipelines for Cruise Line businesses and 7+ Paid Media Channels into Snowflake.
- Architected DGCA Kuwait legacy modernisation from MySQL to Microsoft Fabric, leveraging Azure OpenAI, Document Intelligence, and Logic Apps — delivering a production lakehouse architecture.
- Mentored and upskilled team members across projects developted tech squad, drove knowledge sharing and engineering excellence through internal Snowflake practice communities.
- Embedded Tredence accelerators within active client delivery projects for DQ checks.
Lead Data Engineer
Xpressbees
Bangalore
11.2022 - 05.2025
- Designed real-time and near-real-time data architectures using AWS, Snowflake, Kafka, Debezium & Airflow for high-impact logistics and geospatial analytics use cases.
- Built CDC and snapshot pipelines with robust schema evolution, anomaly validation & data freshness metrics — integrating Postgres, MySql Mongo DB, NoSQL and RDBMS sources into cloud data lakes.
- Drove Snowflake query optimisation (DDL change detection, table freshness) improving reliability and performance across analytical workloads.
- Engineered freshness monitoring and schema drift detection in Snowflake, proactively identifying source-side DDL changes, and data issues before ingestion.
- Mentored team of data engineers,established engineering best practices, delivery standards, and innovation culture across the team.
Senior Engineer
Target
10.2010 - 11.2022
- Created Data Mesh architecture and successfully optimised data pipelines, core datasets, and large-scale retail operations using Sql, Spark, Scala, Kafka, and Oozie.
- Led, mentored and coached a team of five data engineers and cross collaboration with other teams across the organization.
- Designed analytical datasets with over 250 attributes covering middle mile, last mile, distribution, fulfilment centres, and order lifecycle, leveraging HDFS, Hadoop, Hive, and Oozie. Enabled data-driven decisions, improved operational efficiency, and supported reporting, data science, and AI use cases across business teams.
- Redesigned and consolidated 150+ timezone-specific ETL jobs into a single, maintainable Control-M workflow.
- Cross-team coordination in Minneapolis, US, with businesses to understand requirements and build solutions. Connected business partners and stakeholders in person in the US, visited a couple of distribution centres, Target stores, fulfilment centres, and food distribution centre to understand internal working for design solution.
Project Engineer
Wipro
03.2008 - 10.2010
- Implemented performance improvements and automated processes, reducing manual monitoring, and increasing efficiency.
- Developed a scheduler to handle the dependencies of multiple jobs, replacing IBM's Tivoli scheduler, resulting in significant cost savings.
Education
Master - Computer Application
Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
07.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computer Application
Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya
07.2003
Skills
- Snowflake Cloud, Cortex Code, Agents, Custom Skills
- DBT,Matillion, SAPDS, DataStage
- Fivetran, MS Fabric, Quickbase, Sigma
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Apache Kafka, Debezium
- SQL, Stored Procedures
- ETL/ELT
- Spark, Scala, Python
- Hadoop, Hive
- NoSql, RDBMS,Teradata, DB2, Oracle
- CrateDB, Startree Pinot, PingCap TiDB
- Data modeling, Data Architecture, Data warehousing
- Azure
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Technical leadership
- Supply Chain, Retail Expert,CruiseLine,Travel&Hospitality
- Stakeholder Management, Team Leadership, Solution Design, Agile Delivery
Certification
- Snowflake Cortex Code Champion
- TiDB Practitioner, TiDB, powered by PingCAP
- CrateDB Advanced - Time Series Certificate, CrateDB
- Snowflake Hands on Essential Data Warehouse
Accomplishments
- Speaker at Snowflake AI Master Class conducted by Snowflake in Collaboration with The Economic Times.
- Pat on the Back Award Tredence Inc.
- DE Townhall Award in Tredence Inc.
- Quarterly Award, in Target
- Feather in My Cap Award Wipro.
- Participated in Rajpath Parade Delhi, NCC 'B' and 'C' Certified, NSS and Scout Guide.
Timeline
Sr Architect Data Engineering
Tredence Inc
07.2025 - Current
Lead Data Engineer
Xpressbees
11.2022 - 05.2025
Senior Engineer
Target
10.2010 - 11.2022
Project Engineer
Wipro
03.2008 - 10.2010
Master - Computer Application
Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
Bachelor of Science - Computer Application
Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya