Lokesh J

About Lokesh J

What’s common between a credit-card swipe, a phone call, and a late-night grocery order? Their data probably ran through pipelines I built.Hi, I\'m Lokesh, a Data Engineer and I craft batch and streaming systems that stay up (99.9 % SLA), stay clean (99 %+ quality), and stay cost-efficient (six-figure savings). Highlights:• Snow pipe auto-ingest in Azure cut refresh time from 4 h → 10 min for 200+ analysts ⏳• Kafka + Delta Live Tables pushed accuracy from 85 % → 99 % without extra headcount • Real-time Tableau views helped execs at Walmart act 50 % faster on stock gaps Core stack: Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Dbt, Terraform, and both AWS & Azure toys. I balance code with conversations—bridging architects, security, and business folks so everyone wins. Mentored five engineers so far and counting.Next up, I’m keen on multi-cloud lake house patterns, Pythonic data contracts, and teaching more teams that good governance is not optional.Have a role or idea where reliable data makes all the difference? Let’s talk. I’m open to relocation and always open to learning.

Experience

1. Senior Data Engineer

   Capital One

   Sep 2024 — Present · NY, US

   Scope: Built governed Snowflake + Azure data platform for near-real-time financial reporting.Architected Snowpipe auto-ingest from Azure Blob (via Event Grid) to cut refresh from 4h → ~10m for 200+ stakeholders.Stood up CDC with Streams/Tasks + Airflow, improving data quality and reducing incident MTTR.Automated SFTP/FTP ingestion with Python/shell to eliminate manual handoffs and errors.Partnered with architecture/security to standardize monitoring and route critical services via Azure Traffic Manager (99.9% SLA).Used Terraform for reproducible infra and consistent prod/stage/dev deployments.Tech: Snowflake, SQL, Python, Airflow, Azure (Blob, Event Grid, Traffic Manager), Terraform.

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Computer Engineering

  2017 — 2021

• Montclair State University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2023 — 2025