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K. Nisha Sreedharan

Data Engineer
New Delhi

Summary

Big Data Engineer with 7.5 years of experience in building data intensive applications, tackling challenging architectural and scalability problems. Previously helped multiple fintech startups to build robust data pipelines. Currently working with American Express to help with their enterprise data governance platform. Strongly believe that data is the new oil.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Data Engineer | Financial Systems Analyst

American Express
3 2022 - Current

Projects/Responsibilities

  • Created custom Data Governance module using PySpark, Airflow, Hive and Pandas and reduced manual efforts for each business unit by up to 30% and increased data quality controls for 10 processes
  • Automated several data pipelines for supply chain and spend business units and thereby reduced ~80 hours per week of manual effort
  • Worked on setting up data quality rules for different business use cases on Amex Enterprise Data Governance Platform
  • Managed PMO activities for Spend ChatBot
  • Built dashboards on Tableau

Data Engineer | Scrum Master

Ocrolus East
11.2020 - 02.2022

Projects

Ocrolus is a fintech company that helps customers make faster and more accurate lending decisions .

  • Set up pipelines to bring data from tools like Salesforce , Airtable, Ordway into Redshift and Snowflake. Using Python and AWS
  • Setting up alert systems through Redash
  • Snapshot project to send usage reports to clients . Developed using Python and AWS and helped customer satisfaction for 60% of accounts.
  • Code for role based access in Redshift . Developed using Python and AWS
  • Built dashboards on Redash for Volume Forecasting

AVP Data Engineer

Goals101 Data solutions
08.2019 - 11.2020

Projects

Goals101 is a product based 'Transaction Behavioral Intelligence' company that helps to bridge the gap between brands and banks

  • Data Pipeline - A robust pipeline built to automatically ingest data daily and perform quick data quality checks. Project built using Airflow and Pyspark and Grafana
  • Audit Framework Project - To automate data validity checks on all KPIs for data shown in front end vs data in database. Project built using Elastic Search, Pyspark
  • Brand Planner - To detect seasonality trends of any brand. This module can be used to push offers for a brand in a particular month based on past performance of brand. Built using Spark, Scala and Elastic Search and Airflow
  • Spotlight - This tool is used for brand specific insights as well insights regarding peer brands with similar spend patterns to analyze yearly /monthly spend patters and customers etc using Spark
  • Normalization Framework - Framework developed using PySpark to convert raw data received from banks by choosing various transformation functions
  • Location Parsing - To iterate raw narrations received from bank and segregate data based on certain regex expressions. Project developed using Spark
  • Anomaly Detection Module - To detect transactions with unusual spend patterns analyzed over a period of time. Project developed using statistical models in PySpark

Big Data Developer

Rawcubes Inc
07.2018 - 07.2019

Projects

A product based company that specialized in building a generic data lake.

  • Data blaze data lake - Developed in Spark , Hive , Cassandra
  • Insurance fraud detection - Medical Providers - Developed using Spark, Cassandra,Hive. Increased fraud detection in the claims with 75% accuracy.

Engineer Trainee

IRIS Software Pvt. Ltd.
06.2016 - 06.2018

Projects

  • Data Ingestion Framework - Data pipeline using Spark, Sqoop,Oozie, Hive
  • Data Quality Framework - Developed using PySpark,Java and Hive
  • Insurance Fraud Detection - Using Spark Streaming to calculated weighted averaged based on conditions
  • Cluster set up ( VM and HDP Ambari)

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science

GGSIPU
India
08.2012 - 05.2016

12th -

Delhi Public School
Delhi
04.2011 - 05.2012

Skills

Spark/PySpark

Python

AWS

Hadoop/Hive

SQL

Apache Airflow

ETL Development

Java/Scala

Unix/Linux

Docker/Kubernetes

Snowflake

Cassandra/Hbase(NoSQL)

Data Governance/Data Quality

Data Architecture/Pipeline Design

HTML/CSS

GIT/CI CD/Jenkins

Tableau

Data Migration

Data Warehousing/ Modeling

Jupyter Notebooks/MLS

Databricks

Data Lake/Data Mesh

API Development

Data Analysis

Certification

Big Data in the age of AI

Interests

Reading books, Travel , Health And Fitness, Watching crime shows

Accomplishments

  • Won multiple 'Amex Blue Awards' for going 'Above and Beyond'
  • Won GSM Payment Strategy and Operations Pinnacle Award for project management initiatives in American Express.
  • Won 'GSG Tribute Award' for developing data governance tool in Amex
  • Upcoming Player Award (2019) at Goals 101 Inc.
  • Set up functional initiatives within company to promote productivity and agile implementation namely - Quality , People and Velocity initiatives.
  • Participated in Women NASSCOM hackathon and got into top 10 fresh projects submissions.

Personal Projects

  • Uber Data Analysis - Analyzed data from NYC taxi records using GCP suite, Mage.ai, Python and built a dashboard on Looker Studio
  • Twitter Airflow Analysis - Analyzed data from Twitter feeds and set up the pipeline using Airflow, AWS modules like EC2 and S3
  • Twitter Sentiment Analysis- Built using Spark Streaming to analyze election results during Trump era
  • Sorting utility framework -This project involved sorting the files (CSV) based on certain JSON property files. This sorting would then convert the original file into a sorted CSV. This sorted CSV file is then used for further processing. Built using Java and Spark

Languages

English, Hindi
Malayalam, Tamil

Timeline

Data Engineer | Scrum Master

Ocrolus East
11.2020 - 02.2022

AVP Data Engineer

Goals101 Data solutions
08.2019 - 11.2020

Big Data Developer

Rawcubes Inc
07.2018 - 07.2019

Engineer Trainee

IRIS Software Pvt. Ltd.
06.2016 - 06.2018

B.Tech - Computer Science

GGSIPU
08.2012 - 05.2016

12th -

Delhi Public School
04.2011 - 05.2012

Data Engineer | Financial Systems Analyst

American Express
3 2022 - Current
K. Nisha SreedharanData Engineer