I am a Senior Data Engineer with over 10 years of experience designing, building, and supporting scalable data platforms and analytics solutions across cloud and enterprise environments. I specialize in ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing, and performance optimization using AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, Python, PySpark, and SQL. I have experience working with structured and semi-structured data across industries including banking, energy, education, gambling, travel, and fitness. I excel at collaborating with business stakeholders, analysts, and technical teams to deliver reliable, high-quality data solutions in agile environments.

Nilima Sandbhor

I am a Senior Data Engineer with over 10 years of experience designing, building, and supporting scalable data platforms and analytics solutions across cloud and enterprise environments. I specialize in ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing, and performance optimization using AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, Python, PySpark, and SQL. I have experience working with structured and semi-structured data across industries including banking, energy, education, gambling, travel, and fitness. I excel at collaborating with business stakeholders, analysts, and technical teams to deliver reliable, high-quality data solutions in agile environments.

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I am a Senior Data Engineer with over 10 years of experience designing, building, and supporting scalable data platforms and analytics solutions across cloud and enterprise environments. I specialize in ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing, and performance optimization using AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, Python, PySpark, and SQL.

I have experience working with structured and semi-structured data across industries including banking, energy, education, gambling, travel, and fitness. I excel at collaborating with business stakeholders, analysts, and technical teams to deliver reliable, high-quality data solutions in agile environments.

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Work Experience

Senior Data Engineer at Brennan
April 1, 2025 - Present
Delivered data engineering and analytics solutions across multiple client engagements in energy, infrastructure, and not-for-profit sectors. Designed scalable data platforms using cloud-native services and SQL to support analytics and reporting. Led end-to-end deliveries from discovery through deployment, including requirements gathering, solution design, development, and stakeholder engagement. Built metadata-driven ETL/ELT frameworks to deliver reusable, governed pipelines. Embedded data quality checks and documentation standards. Collaborated with business stakeholders, analysts, and testing teams to ensure alignment with business needs.
Senior Data Engineer at Versent
August 1, 2022 - February 28, 2025
Delivered cloud-based data platforms and analytics solutions for education and banking clients. Designed and developed scalable ingestion and transformation pipelines using AWS-native services, Databricks, Spark, and SQL. Implemented daily ingestion pipelines and historic backfills for enterprise reporting. Established data validation, reconciliation, and monitoring frameworks to improve data reliability. Created metadata-driven ingestion patterns to standardize pipelines and improve maintainability. Contributed to CI/CD pipelines promoting data assets across environments.
Senior Data Engineer at ARQ Group
August 1, 2021 - August 31, 2022
Optimized cloud-based data warehouse processing for sales, inventory, and customer data, improving ELT performance and data availability. Developed Python-based serverless functions to monitor and optimize orchestration workflows. Refactored ingestion pipelines to improve reliability and execution performance. Implemented monitoring and alerting to proactively identify and resolve data pipeline issues.
Data Engineer at Fitness and Lifestyle Group
February 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
Designed ELT workflows using Matillion and Snowflake to consolidate data from operational systems. Built SQL views and datasets to support BI reporting and analytics. Optimized transformation of jobs to improve processing efficiency and data availability.
ETL Developer at Flight Centre Travel Group
February 1, 2020 - February 28, 2021
Developed and optimized Talend ETL jobs with validation checks to ensure data integrity. Automated data enrichment workflows using external APIs. Implemented Talend ESB processes for near-real-time data integration.
Graduate ETL Developer at Tabcorp
July 1, 2019 - January 31, 2020
Developed Informatica ETL workflows for high-volume transactional data. Optimized SQL queries in Teradata and SQL Server to improve reporting performance. Automated job scheduling using Control-M.
ETL Developer at Bitwise Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
January 1, 2014 - February 28, 2018
Developed large-scale ETL pipelines using Ab Initio, Teradata, and UNIX shell scripting. Optimized SQL for transaction processing, reporting, and analytics workloads. Provided L3 production support and automated maintenance processes.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Engineering at Pune University, India
January 1, 2013 - January 14, 2026

Qualifications

Databricks Fundamentals (Academy Accreditation)
January 11, 2030 - January 14, 2026
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
January 11, 2030 - January 14, 2026
AI Agent Fundamentals (Academy Accreditation)
January 11, 2030 - January 14, 2026
Talend Studio Explorer
January 11, 2030 - January 14, 2026

Industry Experience

Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Education, Gaming, Travel & Hospitality