I am Sai Venkata Sreekar Gali, a Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience in designing and optimizing large-scale data ecosystems across financial, enterprise, and regulatory domains. I specialize in Python, SQL, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) to build real-time and batch data pipelines that power analytics. I am passionate about automating ETL workflows, improving data reliability and governance, and ensuring GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX compliance. I collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement lineage and data quality checks using dbt, Airflow, Terraform, and CI/CD, delivering analytics-ready data for leadership and regulatory reporting.

Sai Venkata Sreekar Gali

I am Sai Venkata Sreekar Gali, a Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience in designing and optimizing large-scale data ecosystems across financial, enterprise, and regulatory domains. I specialize in Python, SQL, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) to build real-time and batch data pipelines that power analytics. I am passionate about automating ETL workflows, improving data reliability and governance, and ensuring GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX compliance. I collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement lineage and data quality checks using dbt, Airflow, Terraform, and CI/CD, delivering analytics-ready data for leadership and regulatory reporting.

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I am Sai Venkata Sreekar Gali, a Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience in designing and optimizing large-scale data ecosystems across financial, enterprise, and regulatory domains. I specialize in Python, SQL, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) to build real-time and batch data pipelines that power analytics.

I am passionate about automating ETL workflows, improving data reliability and governance, and ensuring GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX compliance. I collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement lineage and data quality checks using dbt, Airflow, Terraform, and CI/CD, delivering analytics-ready data for leadership and regulatory reporting.

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Experience Level

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Data Engineer at Citigroup
May 1, 2024 - November 21, 2025
Architected event-driven data pipelines on AWS (Glue, S3, Lambda) to enable high-throughput ingestion of financial transactions and improved analytics latency by 38%. Built scalable PySpark/Databricks transformations standardizing KYC, credit, and market datasets with audit-ready traceability and GDPR-aligned governance. Integrated Kafka streaming with Snowflake external tables for near real-time trade monitoring, boosting anomaly detection accuracy by 30%. Built dbt-based data lineage and quality checks (200+ model checks) to improve trust in dashboards and regulatory filings. Automated ELT workflows with Airflow and Terraform, improving SLA adherence. Implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions. Collaborated with business units to model liquidity and exposure data for Power BI dashboards.
Data Engineer at TCS
July 1, 2023 - July 1, 2023
Automated regulatory pipelines using Informatica and SQL, processing 10K+ loan records daily and improving AML reporting accuracy by 33%. Built reusable ingestion accelerators with Apache NiFi and Python, reducing new source onboarding from three weeks to four days. Implemented fine-grained access controls in Snowflake and Synapse for GDPR, HIPAA, and audit requirements. Designed incremental load strategies using Delta Lake and Spark, reducing cloud compute costs by 38% and enabling near real-time dashboards. Standardized lineage documentation and metadata cataloging with Collibra and dbt, improving dataset discoverability by 60%. Collaborated with data scientists to build feature stores for fraud detection models, boosting training efficiency by 22%. Implemented automated anomaly detection alerts with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch, reducing incident resolution time by 45%.

Education

Master of Science in Computer and Information Sciences at Northwest Missouri State University
August 1, 2023 - December 1, 2024
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
August 1, 2019 - May 1, 2023

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services