Kshitiz Risal
Data Engineer | Cloud & Big Data | Snowflake | Databricks | ETL/ELT | Real-Time Streaming | Python | Kafka | Airflow | Azure | AWS
- Role
- Data Engineer at American Express
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kshitiz Risal
Driving data innovation with a passion for building robust, scalable, and…
Experience
Data Engineer
Sep 2023 — Present
Engineered and maintained high-throughput ELT pipelines ingesting large volumes of data from multiple internal and external sources into Snowflake and Databricks, leveraging Python, PySpark, SQL, and optimizing warehouse compute to handle peak loads.Migrated legacy ETL processes to a fully cloud-native architecture (Snowflake + dbt + Airflow on AWS), reducing operational costs and improving pipeline reliability.Built event-driven streaming pipelines using Apache Kafka, AWS Lambda, and Spark Structured Streaming to support near-real-time fraud-detection features, cutting latency significantly.Designed partitioning, clustering and materialized views strategies in Snowflake and optimized Spark jobs for much faster queries and lower compute spend.
Education
St. Joseph's University New York
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc
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