Headline

Senior Data Engineer | Snowflake · Databricks · BigQuery | Building open lakehouses | 6+ yrs · Bengaluru · Open to APJ/EMEA relocation

About

Senior Data Engineer, 6+ years. I build open, cost-efficient lakehouses on Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery. Founding data engineer (India) @ New Relic. Creator of dbt-polyglot (PyPI) — a compile-time SQL transpiler for dbt. Recent wins: ▸ $45K+ Snowflake credit savings, 50% faster dbt models ▸ Leading Snowflake → Iceberg/Spark migration (440+ dbt models) ▸ 85% cut in CI/CD lead time · 99.9% pipeline availability ▸ Fast Shipping Tags @ Falabella LATAM — 4M+ SKUs, 50% conversion lift Stack: Snowflake · Databricks · BigQuery · dbt · Spark · Iceberg · Kafka · Airflow · Python · AWS/GCP/Azure Open to Senior/Staff DE roles — India, EMEA (Zurich · Amsterdam · Poland), Remote. Portfolio: saketkumar.pages.dev · Blog: saket.whiz.pub · GitHub: github.com/Saketkr21 Resume · https://saketkumar.pages.dev/SaketKumar_Resume_2026.pdf

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

gemini

github copilot

mcp

ChatGPT

Work experience

Senior Data Engineer at New Relic, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 y 2 mo, Hybrid

Data Engineer at Falabella India, Jun 2022 - May 2024 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Revenue Impact – Fast Shipping Tags: Built a high-performance data product on BigQuery, DataProc, Pub/Sub, and Looker Studio for 4M+ SKUs across Falabella.cl’s third-party marketplace (LATAM); drove a 50% lift in platform conversion rates by delivering 97% accurate insights. Serverless Ingestion Framework: Designed a serverless Cloud Functions + Federated Queries ingestion layer that reduced pipeline setup time by 80% and eliminated Compute Engine maintenance overhead. Airflow Observability at Scale: Built a custom Airflow monitoring dashboard for 2,000+ DAGs (Airflow API, Cloud Functions, GCS, Docker) with automated alerts, root-cause analytics, and remediation suggestions – improving MTTR by 60% and pipeline availability to 99.9%.

Specialist Programmer at Infosys, Oct 2020 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Enterprise ETL on Databricks & Spark (Walmart): Developed Spark-Scala + PySpark ETL pipelines on Databricks and GCP DataProc, ingesting massive datasets from GCS to BigQuery with automated data-quality and integrity gates; leveraged Spark Structured Streaming for near-real-time ingestion patterns. PII Encryption Framework (Five Below): Engineered a cross-org AES-256 / PGP encryption / decryption framework in Python, PySpark, Scala and Java processing 80 GB+ files for end-to-end PII compliance across multi-language producers.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, B.Tech in ECE, Netaji Subhash Engineering College 109

Higher secondary, Science, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Deoghar

Public links

saketkumar.pages.dev: https://saketkumar.pages.dev/