Akhil M

About Akhil M

I am a Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing and optimizing data pipelines…

Experience

1. Data Engineer

   Fugen Solutions

   Aug 2024 — Present · NJ, US

   Led the migration of an enterprise-wide financial data aggregation layer to Snowflake using DBT models, achieving a 60% improvement in query performance and reducing infrastructure costs by 70%. This enabled faster decision-making and supported executive dashboards with reliable metrics-Designed and deployed scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Databricks to ingest and transform transaction-level banking data from diverse sources, empowering near real-time analytics for operations, fraud detection, and compliance monitoring-Integrated Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 with Snowflake, streamlining data access across departments and boosting retrieval speed by 5x. This eliminated bottlenecks in BI and risk reporting pipelines, accelerating insights for risk and finance teams-Refactored complex SQL and Python transformations and implemented dynamic pipeline orchestration using Apache Airflow. These optimizations reduced SLA violations by 40% and significantly improved pipeline reliability, maintainability, and alerting-Collaborated with the bank’s InfoSec and Compliance teams to implement security measures such as RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit, and audit logging, ensuring full alignment with SOX and GLBA standards for sensitive financial data handling-Developed data validation and anomaly detection mechanisms across ingestion pipelines to monitor sensitive financial datasets, improving overall data quality and supporting regulatory compliance and audit readiness.