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Prajakta Sonar

Prajakta Sonar

Pune

Summary

Dynamic and experienced professional with expertise in GCP and BigQuery, driving impactful data solutions, with a solid background in the payment and banking industry. Proven track record in designing scalable data pipelines and optimizing SQL queries, enhancing data quality, and analytics. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring project success through effective communication and technical leadership.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Associate

Synechron
Pune
02.2025 - Current
  • Utilized BigQuery for handling and analyzing massive volumes of transactional and financial data, creating optimized SQL queries to generate insightful reports, and real-time analytics for financial teams.
  • Designed and implemented cloud-based solutions using GCP services like BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Logging to handle large-scale financial data processing and analytics.
  • Actively manage tasks, sprints, and user stories using Jira to ensure smooth project execution. Coordinate with cross-functional teams, track progress, and resolve blockers to meet project deadlines in a timely manner.

Programmer Analyst |GCP Data Engineer

Bitwise Solutions
Pune
07.2019 - 12.2024
  • Company Overview: Bitwise provides services to Global Payments, which offers payment processing services to merchants, allowing them to accept credit and debit cards, along with other payment types; this role is known as a merchant acquirer.
  • Developed and maintained secure and scalable data pipelines on GCP to process global payment transaction data.
  • Implemented solutions using BigQuery, SQL, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub.
  • Ensured compliance with PCI DSS and other payment industry standards through robust security controls and data encryption mechanisms.
  • Extensively used SQL queries to verify and validate the data coming from different sources with the help of BigQuery, Airflow, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage.
  • Worked on creation of BigQuery Datasets, Tables, Views, Materialized Views.
  • Implemented SCD Type 1 and SCD Type 2 methodologies in clinical tables loading, to keep historical data in the data warehouse.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define data architecture and deliver effective payment solutions.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to identify requirements for new features or enhancements.
  • Designed cost effective solutions that optimized usage of cloud resources.
  • Advised on project costs, concepts or design changes.
  • Defined technical integration strategy and developed integration plans.
  • Provided technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members.
  • I worked as a Subject Matter Expert with the stakeholders and module lead on different projects.
  • Conducted code reviews, unit testing, and implemented CI/CD pipelines to ensure code quality and reliability.
  • Part of planning, reviewing, and making a script to do the cloud migration.
  • Analyzing the source data received from different sources.
  • Working on BigQuery for data analysis and features of Google Cloud Platform.
  • Database design and mapping creation: Create an end-to-end data lineage from on-premise to cloud database.
  • Develop dataset processes, data modeling, and data warehousing.
  • Designed and documented project requirements, technical specifications, and data mapping from source to target.
  • Building cross functional relationships with Data analysts, Product owners and Engineers to understand data needs and deliver on those needs.
  • Interaction with BA's to understand the BI reporting requirements and creating views in BigQuery.

Education

BE - Computer

Pune University
Pune, India
06.2019

Skills

  • GCP
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Lake Implementation
  • Data Pipeline Design
  • Data Quality
  • Data encryption techniques
  • BigQuery
  • PySpark
  • Git
  • JIRA,Rally,Confluence
  • Data analysis
  • ETL
  • SSIS
  • BigQuery optimization
  • SQL queries
  • PowerBI
  • Cloud storage
  • LucidCharts
  • Putty

Languages

English, Hindi, Marathi

Timeline

Senior Associate

Synechron
02.2025 - Current

Programmer Analyst |GCP Data Engineer

Bitwise Solutions
07.2019 - 12.2024

BE - Computer

Pune University
Prajakta Sonar