About Me
Senior GCP Data Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable data platforms with a strong focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Hands-on expertise in BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage,…
Senior GCP Data Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable data platforms with a strong focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Hands-on expertise in BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer, PySpark, Spark, and Python, with proven experience delivering data ingestion, transformation, and analytical datasets for financial services clients including Lloyds Banking Group. Experienced in GCP data migration, multi-layer data modelling, performance optimisation, governance, lineage, and secure data access using IAM. Adept at collaborating with architects, product owners, and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure, and high-quality data solutions.
Experience
Senior Data Engineer
<p>Migrated OFSDF workloads from on-prem Hadoop to GCP using Dataproc, BigQuery, GCS, Cloud Composer, and Cloud Logging.</p><p> Designed and developed PySpark-based ingestion pipelines to load data into GCS Landing Zone.</p><p> Built scalable transformation pipelines on Dataproc and optimised analytical datasets in BigQuery for reporting and downstream analytics.</p><p> Used Pub/Sub for event-driven data ingestion and triggering downstream processing workflows.</p><p> Implemented secure access using IAM, service accounts, encryption, and GCP governance best practices.</p><p> Developed monitoring and alerting using Cloud Logging & Monitoring.</p><p> Built data products for Commercial Loan Customers & Management, integrating data from multiple systems.</p><p> Designed and implemented multi-layer architecture: Raw → Schema → Consolidation → Curation → Consumption.</p><p> Built Spark-Scala transformation framework supporting daily/monthly/FTS ingestion patterns.</p><p> Performed joins, unions, aggregations, and curated datasets for finance consumption.</p><p> Applied standardisation rules (datatype conversions, curated IDs, naming conventions).</p><p> Versioned and deployed code using Git-UP, Jenkins, UrbanCode, Spinnaker, and TWS.</p><p> Designed and optimised Databricks + Spark pipelines supporting analytics, ML, and regulatory reporting across a large enterprise environment (POC).</p><p> Built scalable ETL workflows using Python, PySpark, AWS Glue, Lambda, and S3, ensuring accuracy and reliability (POC).</p><p> Implemented Delta Lake–based lakehouse layers with schema governance, lineage, and automated data quality checks (POC).</p><p> Developed ingestion pipelines integrating APIs, RDBMS, Kafka/MSK, and cloud storage, delivering high-throughput and resilient data flows (POC).</p><p> Ensured compliance with GDPR, auditability, lineage, and financial regulatory controls.</p><p> Collaborated with architects, product owners, and downstream consumers to define SLAs, monitoring, and operational readiness.</p><p> Authored architecture documentation for ingestion patterns, cluster sizing, and governance.</p>
Developer
<p>Designed and developed large-scale ETL pipelines using Sqoop, Hive, Spark, and Kafka.</p><p> Built incremental ingestion jobs and optimized Hive queries using partitioning and bucketing.</p><p> Developed Spark DataFrame transformations and delivered outputs in Parquet, ORC, and JSON formats.</p><p> Integrated data from Kafka, NoSQL, RDBMS, and file systems into the enterprise data lake.</p><p> Delivered real-time analytics using Elasticsearch and Kibana.</p><p> Improved operational stability through performance tuning and code optimization.</p><p> Developed PL/SQL workflows and optimized SQL queries for performance-critical applications.</p><p> Created complex views and materialized views with scheduled refresh cycles.</p><p> Performed AWR analysis, indexing, and tuning for high-volume workloads.</p><p> Enhanced existing applications and ensured stable production operations.</p><p> Followed SDLC and version control practices using Git.</p>
PROJECTS
Commercial Loans
<p>GCP Data Engineering & Migration</p><ul><li>Migrated OFSDF workloads from on‑prem Hadoop to GCP using Dataproc, BigQuery, GCS, Cloud Composer, Cloud Logging.</li><li>Designed and developed PySpark‑based ingestion pipelines to load data into GCS Landing Zone.</li><li>Built scalable transformation pipelines on Dataproc and optimised analytical datasets in BigQuery for reporting and downstream analytics.</li><li>Used Pub/Sub for event‑driven data ingestion and triggering downstream processing workflows.</li><li>Implemented secure access using IAM, service accounts, encryption, and GCP governance best practices.</li><li>Developed monitoring and alerting using Cloud Logging & Monitoring.</li></ul><p>Data Product Development (Commercial Loans Platform)</p><ul><li>Built data products for Commercial Loan Customers & Management, integrating data from multiple systems.</li><li>Designed and implemented multi‑layer architecture: Raw → Schema → Consolidation → Curation → Consumption.</li><li>Applied standardisation rules (datatype conversions, curated IDs, naming conventions).</li><li>Built Spark‑Scala transformation framework supporting daily/monthly/FTS ingestion patterns.</li><li>Performed joins, unions, aggregations, and curated datasets for finance consumption.</li><li>Versioned and deployed code using Git‑UP, Jenkins, UrbanCode, Spinnaker,TWS.</li></ul><p></p>