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Akhil A

Senior Data Engineer | 5+ Yrs | Snowflake,PySpark, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, dbt, SQL, Python | Data Pipeline Architecture, Migration & Performance Tuning | 5x certified

Quilon

9+ years of work experience

Daimler Truck Innovation Center India (DTICI)
Feb 20251 yr 10 mosPresent

Bengaluru

-Designed a high-performance Snowflake staging and transformation layer, pre-computing complex JSON payloads and significantly reducing downstream API compute overhead -Led end-to-end migration of data and business transformation logic from Azure ADX, Databricks, IBM DB2, Oracle, and SAP HANA to Snowflake — delivering a 30% performance boost and 20% reduction in operational costs (Matillion, ADF) -Built reusable ETL ingestion frameworks using ADF and Matillion, cutting development time by 60% Led migration of multiple use cases and resources across Azure tenants within a tight timeline with zero disruption -Developed a near real-time dashboard for connected truck performance, benchmarking against market averages to support strategic decision-making -Built a Spark-based analytics POC (Databricks + PySpark) to optimize truck utilization and routing — increasing fleet revenue by up to 25% -Designed Spark-based parsing and transformation logic to onboard heterogeneous, structured datasets into Databricks for downstream analytics -Built Spark-based pipelines on Databricks enabling real-time analytics and predictive maintenance models
Daimler Truck Innovation Center India (DTICI)
Jun 20222 yrs 10 mosMar 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Tata Consultancy Services
Jul 20211 yrJun 2022

Chennai

Gathered requirements from stakeholders to architect High-Level and Low-Level designs aligned with business KPIs Engineered complex SQL queries for ETL orchestration, reducing query execution time by 15% Built ETL pipelines using Redshift, S3, PySpark, and Pandas Led migration from Netezza to Snowflake, delivering $60K in annual cost savings and a 14% performance increase
Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 20217 mosJul 2021

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Jan 20192 yrs 1 moJan 2021

paripally

Aug 20181 yr 1 moAug 2019

kerala

Served as the student's Council Arts Club Secretary for the year 2018-2019
Feb 20174 yrsJan 2021

kollam

Akhil’s AI Stack

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Education

Bachelor of Technology, COMPUTER SCIENCE

UKFCET

20164 yrs2020

HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION, Computer Science

NSSHSS CHATHANOOR

20142 yrs2016

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Headline

Senior Data Engineer | 5+ Yrs | Snowflake,PySpark, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, dbt, SQL, Python | Data Pipeline Architecture, Migration & Performance Tuning | 5x certified

About

Senior Data Engineer with 5+ years building and optimizing data pipelines in the automotive/manufacturing space at Daimler Truck. I specialize in Snowflake, Hive, and large-scale data transformation, with a growing focus on applying AI/ML to data engineering workflows. Azure-certified across data engineering and data analytics (4x Microsoft Certified), plus SnowPro Associate certified. I enjoy turning messy, high-volume data into reliable, scalable systems that teams can actually trust. Open to connecting with fellow data engineers, ML practitioners, and anyone working at the intersection of data platforms and AI. Open to connecting with data engineers, analytics leaders, and anyone working on cloud data platform modernization.

Location

Quilon

AI stack

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codex

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Work experience

Senior Consultant - Data and Analytics at Daimler Truck Innovation Center India (DTICI), Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, -Designed a high-performance Snowflake staging and transformation layer, pre-computing complex JSON payloads and significantly reducing downstream API compute overhead -Led end-to-end migration of data and business transformation logic from Azure ADX, Databricks, IBM DB2, Oracle, and SAP HANA to Snowflake — delivering a 30% performance boost and 20% reduction in operational costs (Matillion, ADF) -Built reusable ETL ingestion frameworks using ADF and Matillion, cutting development time by 60% Led migration of multiple use cases and resources across Azure tenants within a tight timeline with zero disruption -Developed a near real-time dashboard for connected truck performance, benchmarking against market averages to support strategic decision-making -Built a Spark-based analytics POC (Databricks + PySpark) to optimize truck utilization and routing — increasing fleet revenue by up to 25% -Designed Spark-based parsing and transformation logic to onboard heterogeneous, structured datasets into Databricks for downstream analytics -Built Spark-based pipelines on Databricks enabling real-time analytics and predictive maintenance models

Consultant - data and analytics at Daimler Truck Innovation Center India (DTICI), Jun 2022 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Jul 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr, Chennai, Gathered requirements from stakeholders to architect High-Level and Low-Level designs aligned with business KPIs Engineered complex SQL queries for ETL orchestration, reducing query execution time by 15% Built ETL pipelines using Redshift, S3, PySpark, and Pandas Led migration from Netezza to Snowflake, delivering $60K in annual cost savings and a 14% performance increase

Assistant System Engineer Trainee at Tata Consultancy Services, Jan 2021 - Jul 2021 · 7 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Technical Specialist at ieee sb ukfcet, Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo, paripally

Arts Club Secretary at UKFCET, Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, kerala, Served as the student's Council Arts Club Secretary for the year 2018-2019

Vice Chair at ieee sb ukfcet, Feb 2017 - Jan 2021 · 4 yrs, kollam

Education

Bachelor of Technology, COMPUTER SCIENCE, UKFCET

HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION, Computer Science, NSSHSS CHATHANOOR

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