Milinda Basavaraju

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ABOUT MILINDA BASAVARAJU

I’m a Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience, specialising in building scalable data systems and analytical products that organisations can trust, pipelines that run reliably, models that deliver consistently, and insights that support real decisions, not assumptions.Here are a few ways I’ve impacted businesses :• Engineering cloud-native ETL pipelines (Python, SQL, PySpark, AWS/Azure) that transform fragmented, high-volume data into clean, analysis-ready datasets used across analytics, ML, and reporting teams.• Improving data quality and pipeline stability for workflows processing 9.8M+ of daily records, ensuring downstream teams always work with accurate, dependable data.• Automating complex data workflows, reducing manual review effort by 83%, accelerating operational visibility and allowing teams to focus on higher-value analysis.• Building ML-enabled systems, such as a lead-scoring pipeline that contributed to an 18% uplift in marketing ROI, supporting smarter customer targeting.• Delivering 12+ analytical dashboards using Snowflake + SQL + Tableau to surface customer demographics, retention dynamics, and acquisition patterns, enabling data-informed marketing and stronger sales outcomes.Technical strengths: Python (pandas, PySpark)| SQL | AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda, SageMaker)| Kafka | Airflow | Terraform | Snowflake | Postgres | Data Modelling | BI (Tableau, Power BI)| CI/CD | Monitoring & Quality Controls.I thrive in roles that blend engineering with analytical thinking, designing the pipelines, models, and datasets that make trustworthy insights.Outside work, I’m a professional Bharathanatyam dancer and an avid fiction reader.