Akshitha G

About Akshitha G

Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and optimizing cloud-native data platforms across financial services and healthcare. I focus on building scalable data pipelines, streaming architectures, and modern ETL frameworks using AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, and dbt.I’ve delivered enterprise-grade solutions supporting market analytics, portfolio management, regulatory data requirements, and self-service analytics adoption within large organizations. Passionate about transforming data into trusted and accessible assets that drive high-value business decisions.

Experience

1. Data Engineer

   BlackRock

   Mar 2024 — Present · NY, US

   Architected a cloud-native data lake on AWS supporting 50TB+ of financial market and pricing datasetsDeveloped real-time streaming pipelines using Kafka and Spark processing 120M+ daily trade messagesAutomated ETL workloads in Airflow, achieving 99.9% SLA reliability across production pipelinesDesigned Snowflake models that reduced reporting time from 2 hours to 15 minutesImproved data quality and governance using Great Expectations aligned with SEC complianceBuilt dbt transformation layers enabling self-service analytics across investment teamsMigrated historical portfolio data with zero data loss and improved query performanceDelivered engineered features supporting quantitative research and alpha generationTech Stack: AWS, Snowflake, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Databricks, Python, SQL, Terraform

Education

• Narayana Junior College - India

  Intermediate

• JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communication Engineering

• Bhashyam High School

  10th

• St. Francis College

  Master of Science - MS, Information Technology Management