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Shanku Datta

Shanku Datta

Kolkata

Summary

Results-driven Cloud Data Engineer with 4 years of experience at Cognizant Technology Solutions, skilled in SQL, ETL tools like IICS, Ascend, Dataprep, GCP tools like BigQuery and Composer, and Collibra Data Quality. Achieved a 50% reduction in ETL pipeline runtime while mentoring junior developers, enhancing their productivity. Proven expertise in data integration and quality assurance, ensuring accurate and efficient data management.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate (Cloud Data Engineer)

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Kolkata
09.2021 - Current
  • Integrated data from IBM DOM and BYWMS systems using IICS mappings into GBQ Datalake for unified commerce.
  • Developed stored procedures in BigQuery for more than 25 fact and dimension tables, which were used in business data analysis.
  • Established data pipelines in Ascend, as well as in Dataprep, to transform and load data into the GBQ Datalake, ensuring an accurate ETL process data flow.
  • Automated ETL pipelines with Airflow Composer make the overall system more scalable and reduce the pipeline runtime by 50%.
  • Implemented data quality checks to ensure the accuracy and consistency of datasets, while managing datasets, rules, and alerts in Collibra.
  • Mentored junior developers, reducing their onboarding ramp-up time from 6 weeks to 4 weeks, and made them ready to speed up their work by 30%.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Institute of Engineering And Management
Kolkata
07.2021

Higher Secondary - Computer Science

Nabagram Vidyapith
Konnagar
06.2017

Secondary -

Nabagram Vidyapith
Konnagar
05.2015

Skills

  • Programming/query languages: SQL, Python
  • Cloud platforms and tools: GCP (BigQuery, Dataprep, Composer), Ascend
  • ETL tools: Informatica IICS, Ascend
  • Data quality tools: Collibra DQ
  • Automation and scheduling: CA Workload Automation, Airflow

Certification

  • Google Cloud Digital Leader (09/2023 - present)
  • What is data science by Coursera (07/2020 - present)
  • Tools for data science by Coursera (07/2020 - present)
  • MTA: Introduction to Programming Language Using Python (01/2020 - Present)

Languages

English Full Professional Proficiency, Bengali Full Professional Proficiency, Hindi Full Professional Proficiency

Hobbies and Interests

Playing and Watching Cricket, Watching Movies

Accomplishments

Cognizant Cheers Award (04/2023 - Present): working in the O2I project as an active team member, which received a round of applause from the client's leadership

Cognizant Cheers Award (05/2025 - Present), contributing to the DPP project as an pro-active team member, making the team member more productive, which received a round of applause from the client's leadership

Languages

Bengali
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
C1

Timeline

Associate (Cloud Data Engineer)

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2021 - Current

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Institute of Engineering And Management

Higher Secondary - Computer Science

Nabagram Vidyapith

Secondary -

Nabagram Vidyapith
Shanku Datta