Sudhir Nikam

Hi, I'm Sudhir 👋

Senior Data Engineer | Dubai, UAE | AWS & Azure | Apache Spark

Result-oriented Senior Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience building optimized data engineering pipelines for ETL processes. Expert in extracting, transforming, and loading data into various storage systems to provide actionable insights for customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and sentiment analysis. Proven track record in big data processing, cloud platforms, and cross-functional team collaboration.

Technical Expertise

Languages & Processing

  • • Python, Java, JavaScript
  • • PySpark, Spark Streaming
  • • SQL, PL/SQL
  • • Apache Nifi

Cloud & Data Platforms

  • • AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3, Glue)
  • • Azure
  • • Snowflake
  • • Kafka Streaming

Databases & Storage

  • • Oracle, PostgreSQL
  • • SQL Server, HBase
  • • Parquet, AVRO, CSV
  • • Data Lakes & Warehouses

DevOps & Tools

  • • Docker, Kubernetes
  • • Terraform
  • • Apache Airflow, Control-M
  • • Git, GitLab, Bitbucket

Experience

Senior Data Engineer (Consultant)

Emirates NBD, Dubai | Apr 2025 - Present

Implemented Medallion architecture and real-time streaming pipelines, optimizing micro-batch processing by 58%. Built reusable ETL frameworks with focus on performance optimization

PySpark Batch, PySpark Streaming, Kafka, Performance Optimization, Oracle, Reusable ETL Frameworks, Tableau

Senior Data Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mumbai | Oct 2021 - Apr 2025

Designed event-driven pipelines on AWS, migrated data to Snowflake, and achieved 6x performance improvement through Spark optimization

AWS (Glue, Lambda, ECS, S3, CloudWatch, Route53, NLB, ALB, Service Mesh, Multi-region), Snowflake, Spark, Python, Java, Kafka, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Spring Boot

Data Engineer & ETL Automation Developer

BNP Paribas, Mumbai | Mar 2017 - Oct 2021

Built ETL frameworks and automation tools reducing development time by 60-90%, created data lineage and quality frameworks

PySpark, Python, Hive, Kafka, HBase, Nifi, Apache Airflow, Oracle, SQL Server

ETL Developer

Capgemini, Mumbai | Aug 2014 - Feb 2017

Designed and developed complex end-to-end ETL pipelines, automated production support processes

ETL Tools, SQL, Oracle, Automation Frameworks

Let's Connect

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