Nikhil Rao

Senior Data Engineer

About Me

Hello! I’m Nikhil Rao. I am a Senior Data Engineer specializing in building ETL pipelines and data lakes enabling customers to organize and gain insights into their data. My experience includes architecting and implementing systems using Google Cloud Platform, working with complex data and architectures, scaling distributed databases, machine learning technologies, and building API’s.

Bio

Age
31
Email
nrrao@pm.me
LinkedIn
Phone
+0718-111-0011
Address
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A

Professional Skills

BigQuery
Master
PySpark
Expert
Apache Beam and Dataflow
Advance
Postgres
Advance
SQL
Master
API Development
Expert
Google Cloud BigTable
Expert
Docker
Beginner

Work Experience

Senior Data Engineer at Tapcart
Jun 2021 - Jan 2024
Successfully created and maintained a realtime, streaming analytics platform powering the mobile applications of large shopping brands including Fashion Nova, Chubbies, and The Hundreds ingesting data from millions of daily active users
Cloud Data Engineer at Cloudreach
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
Drove the analysis, architecture, design, and development of cloud based data warehousing and business intelligence solutions
Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte
Feb 2017 - Nov 2018
Conducted Horizon Scanning and Technology Scouting for a civilian federal department to provide insights into Cybersecurity, Explosives, Chemical/Biological Defense, and protecting Critical Infrastructure.

Education

Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from University of Delaware
2011 - 2016

Portfolio

Google Cloud Dataflow / Java / Google BigQuery / Apache Druid

Developed Streaming Realtime Analytics Platform

Platform powering large multi-national shopping brands

Millions of events across thousands of merchants a day

Data from over 15 million mobile devices with numerous app versions in the wild

Analytics system for push notification attribution and conversion funnels

Implemented user session stitching in realtime ETL pipelines

Data Warehousing / Business Reporting / PySpark / ETL

Internal Business Reporting

Created CDC architecture integrating Operation Database (Mongo) to the Analytics Datastore (BigQuery)

Calculated business metrics like GMV and churn rate

Data Governance / Security / PII / Data Catalog / Data Warehousing

Data Security and Compliance

Implemented controls for Personally Identifiable Information using BigQuery column level security tags and Data Cataloging

Managed access to hundreds of datasets and hundreds of employees across the organization

Contact

+0718-111-0011
nrrao@pm.me
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