Gaurav Naiknaware

Gaurav Naiknaware

Senior Data Engineer
UAE
Full-time Remote

About Me

Senior Data Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling cloud-based data pipelines, analytics platforms, and data-intensive applications across AdTech, Healthcare, and Government Contracting (Go…

Experience

Senior Data Engineer

Jisr HR · Pune, Maharashtra, India
Nov 2025 - Present · 11 months

<p>Designed and developed a Voice of Customer (VoC) platform processing 10M+ customer feedback records with LLMs, NLP, and sentiment analysis, surfacing pain points that informed 30% of product roadmap priorities.</p><p> Built Airbyte and dbt ELT pipelines integrating 20+ data sources into BigQuery and developed 300+ data models, improving analytics consistency and reducing reliance on manual data pulls.</p><p> Automated data enrichment with LLMs, improving data quality and increasing analytics accuracy by 15%.</p>

Data Engineering Lead

Technomile · Pune, Maharashtra, India
Jun 2025 - Oct 2025 · 3 months

<p>Led development of the GovSearchAI platform with an 18-engineer team, guiding architecture decisions, data modeling, enterprise integrations, and data governance.</p><p> Migrated approximately 100 legacy Jenkins jobs to Apache Airflow, improving observability, reducing pipeline failures by 40%, and cutting processing time by 30%.</p>

Lead Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

DeepIntent · Pune, Maharashtra, India
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025 · 5 years 6 months

<p>Architected a DSP planning and measurement product and led a 20-person engineering team, building data processing and analytics workflows with Apache Spark, Snowflake, and ClickHouse to support HIPAA-compliant processing.</p><p> Migrated analytical systems from PostgreSQL and Druid to ClickHouse to support analytical API workloads and improve query performance.</p><p> Partnered with data science to implement an advertising forecasting system using ClickHouse and Redis.</p><p> Built data processing services on Databricks using Apache Spark to transform and validate ad delivery data from BigQuery for downstream services.</p><p> Developed a custom reporting application using Spring Boot and GraphQL.</p>

Software Engineer

Bonzai - The Creative Automation Platform · Pune, Maharashtra, India
Apr 2017 - Jul 2019 · 2 years 2 months

<p>Built a Python data integration service to extract statistics from Amazon Redshift and publish them to Amazon S3 for integration partners.</p><p> Developed data-mining logic to detect fraudulent requests in online advertising.</p><p> Scaled an ad server to handle millions of requests per day with response times within 100 milliseconds.</p><p> Developed Hadoop/EMR-based analytics processing with AWS Glue to parse event logs and load transformed data into OLTP and OLAP databases through ETL workflows.</p><p> Built a Spring Boot application that reads database schema configuration and generates queries dynamically to power analytics dashboards, charts, and reports.</p><p> Developed an OAuth2-secured Spring Boot application with a UI to present insights in charts and tables.</p>

Certifications

AWS Databricks Platform Architect

Databricks · Dubai , Dubai , United Arab Emirates (UAE) · 2026

Databricks - AI Agent Fundamentals

Databricks · Dubai , Dubai , United Arab Emirates (UAE) · 2026

Databricks Data + AI Platform Administrator

Databricks · Dubai , Dubai , United Arab Emirates (UAE) · 2026

Skills

Python SQL Java PySpark Go ETL/ELT Pipelines Data Pipeline Design Data Integration Data Modeling Data Quality Data Governance Workflow Orchestration Observability Large Language Models (LLMs) Generative AI Natural Language Processing (NLP) Sentiment Analysis AI-Powered Data Enrichment dbt Airbyte Apache Airflow Apache Spark Apache Kafka Apache Hive Apache Hadoop AWS Glue BigQuery Snowflake ClickHouse PostgreSQL MySQL Amazon Redshift Redis AWS Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure Docker Kubernetes Git Maven Shell Scripting Tableau Power BI Google Data Studio Spring Boot GraphQL OAuth2 Jenkins EMR
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