Deepanshu Aggarwal

Deepanshu Aggarwal

Lead Data Engineer
Greater Noida , Uttar Pradesh , India

About Me

Databricks Certified Lead Data Engineer with 5 years architecting enterprise-scale data Lakehouse pipelines on
AWS & Azure. Delivered $70K+ in annual savings, led 15-engineer teams, and improved data quality by 35%.
Expe…

Experience

Lead Data Engineer

Ahead, Gurugram, India
Jul 2024 - Present · 2 years

Led a 15-engineer cross-functional team using Agile & CI/CD and drove a 30% productivity boost and consistent on-time delivery.
Received the Q4 IMPACT Award in Jan 2025.
Architected a cost-optimized Delta Lake storage solution using Medallion Architecture, compression, and archival policies and reduced storage costs by 40% ($50K/year) while improving query performance.
Engineered a data quality and observability framework using automated profiling and improved analytics reliability by 35% and reduced pipeline downtime by 20%.
Built an Automated Monitoring & Alerting system using Python, Databricks, and ServiceNow that reduced MTTR by 25% and sustained 99.9% uptime SLA across all production workflows.
Designed fault-tolerant recovery playbooks and schema evolution strategies with dbt and Unity Catalog, enabling zero-downtime deployments.

Lead Data Engineer

Ahead; Gurugram, India · Gurgaon , Haryana , India
Jun 2024 - Present · 2 years

Led a 15-engineer cross-functional team using Agile & CI/CD — drove a 30% productivity boost and consistent on-time delivery. Recognized with the Q4 IMPACT Award, Jan 2025., Architected a cost-optimized Delta Lake storage solution using Medallion Architecture, compression & archival policies — reduced storage costs by 40% ($50K/year) while improving query performance., Engineered a data quality & observability framework using automated profiling — improved analytics reliability by 35% and reduced pipeline downtime by 20%., Built an Automated Monitoring & Alerting system (Python, Databricks, ServiceNow) that reduced MTTR by 25% and sustained 99.9% uptime SLA across all production workflows., Designed fault-tolerant recovery playbooks and schema evolution strategies with dbt & Unity Catalog — enabling zero-downtime deployments.

Data Engineer

Innovaccer, Noida, India
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024 · 2 years 6 months

Engineered 50+ production ETL pipelines using Python, SQL, and PySpark and 15+ reusable data accelerators, boosting throughput by 33%, processing efficiency by 28%, and saving $20K/year.
Migrated core datasets to Parquet with Delta Lake partitioning, increasing throughput by 33% and reducing storage costs by approximately 20%.
Tuned AWS integrations including S3, Redshift, and PostgreSQL, cutting data latency by 20%.
Built DQT (Data Quality Tool) automating column fill-rate analysis and cutting manual QA time by 40%.
Rewrote PySpark parsers improving ingestion speed by 70%.
Automated Power BI reporting saving 15+ hours per week.
Mentored 5 junior engineers through migration.
Achieved Top 5% in internal DE certification assessments.

Data Engineer

Innovaccer; Noida, India · Noida , Uttar Pradesh , India
Dec 2021 - Jun 2024 · 2 years 5 months

Engineered 50+ production ETL pipelines (Python, SQL, PySpark) and 15+ reusable data accelerators — boosting throughput by 33%, processing efficiency by 28%, and saving $20K/year., Migrated core datasets to Parquet with Delta Lake partitioning — throughput up 33%, storage costs down ~20%; tuned AWS integrations (S3, Redshift, PostgreSQL) cutting data latency by 20%., Built DQT (Data Quality Tool) automating column fill-rate analysis and cutting manual QA time by 40%. Reduced time-to-detect data issues significantly., Rewrote PySpark parsers improving ingestion speed by 70%; automated Power BI reporting saving 15+ hrs./week; mentored 5 junior engineers through migration. Top 5% in internal DE certification assessments.

Software Developer Engineer

Unthinkable Solutions, Noida, India
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021 · 3 months

Developed PySpark and Pandas data cleansing and transformation scripts to improve analytics pipeline quality across client datasets.

Software Developer Engineer

Unthinkable Solutions; Noida, India · Gurgaon , Haryana , India
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021 · 2 months

Developed PySpark & Pandas data cleansing and transformation scripts to improve analytics pipeline quality across client datasets. Designed fault-tolerant recovery playbooks and schema evolution strategies with dbt & Unity Catalog — enabling zero-downtime deployments.

Skills

PostgreSQL PySpark CI/CD Power BI Redshift ServiceNow AWS S3 Azure ADLS Gen2 Snowflake Delta Lake Unity Catalog ElasticSearch Databricks Apache Kafka Spark Streaming Airflow Azure Data Factory dbt Git Medallion Architecture Data Lakehouse Data Observability Data Contracts Schema Evolution Cloud Migration Pandas Python SQL
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