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About Me in Detail

My professional journey, education, and certifications.

Ashwin
Professional Profile

Hey, I'm Ashwin

DATA ENGINEER

Data Engineer with 2+ years of experience building production-grade data pipelines, real-time streaming architectures, and cloud-native data platforms on AWS. I specialize in Apache Spark, Kafka, dbt, Snowflake, and Medallion Architecture — designing scalable infrastructure that turns raw data into business-critical insights.

Career & Education Journey

My educational foundation and professional timeline.

Professional Experience

Software Engineer
April 2025 – June 2026
Openturf Technologies, Bangalore

Spearheaded design/deployment of a multi-tenant data science platform on AWS EKS for 3,000+ students to run production-grade ML projects. Integrated Kafka, PySpark, PostgreSQL/MySQL; built a hybrid container runtime (local sandboxes vs cloud pods) to cut cloud compute costs. Engineered backend Node.js services + alert portals processing millions of hourly Call Data Records (CDRs) for a tier-one telecom client. Contributed to an internal Generative AI product enabling RAG/LLM workflow construction for enterprise document processing.

Data Analyst
May 2024 – March 2025
Namaste IT Products and Solutions

Built end-to-end ML pipeline for an image captioning system. Engineered SQL/Python pipelines across 450+ business zones with data quality rules (null checks, referential integrity, deduplication). Power BI Specialist: led DAX/schema optimization workshops for clients.

Data Analytics Intern
Feb 2024 – Apr 2024
Thriftizer Solutions LLP, Bangalore

Automated GA metrics extraction/aggregation via Python. Modeled user behavior data to inform product marketing strategy.

Education History

MSc Data Science
Aug 2022 – June 2024
Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

CGPA: 8.3/10. Specialized in Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics.

BSc Computer Science with Data Analytics
June 2019 – May 2022
PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore

CGPA: 8.5/10. Focused on Statistical Analysis, Database Management, and Data Mining.

Validated Certifications

Snowflake Data Engineering Professional Certificate

LinkedIn Learning

Data Engineering with dbt

LinkedIn Learning

Complete Guide to Analytics Engineering

LinkedIn Learning

Data Engineering Foundations

LinkedIn Learning

Learning Docker & Docker Compose

LinkedIn Learning

Introduction to Databricks

365DataScience

Technical Toolbox

PythonSQLApache SparkPySparkApache KafkadbtSnowflakeAWSDockerPower BIPostgreSQLNode.jsDatabricksGitMachine LearningTableauMatplotlib