Nikhil Jabade

About Nikhil Jabade

Currently working on Cloud and Big Data technologies; highly passionate and professionally gearing towards Machine Learning / AI / GenAI• Masters in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA• Proficient in mapping business requirements into efficient technology solutions• Strong work ethic, ability to work independently as well as with diverse teamsTechnology Expertise• Programming: Java, Scala, Python, Spring, Struts, Servlets, SOAP/RESTful APIs• Big Data: Spark, Hadoop, MapReduce, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, Kafka, Hive, Sqoop• AWS: S3, EC2, EMR, Redshift, Lambda, Athena, DMS, Kinesis, RDS, Elasticsearch, Kibana, QuickSight, Rekognition, Comprehend etc.• Databases: Snowflake, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, basic level of Cassandra and DynamoDB• Reporting Tools: Tableau, QlikView• Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate, Databricks Apache Spark Developer, Agile Level 1• Others: Airflow, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Maven, SBT, Git, Gradle, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible, JIRA

Experience

1. Lead Data Engineer

   IDFC FIRST Bank

   Jul 2022 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Hands on Tech Lead for four business units (Assets, Collections, Liabilities and Credit Cards) that aimed at driving growth digitally. Developed and executed technical solutions, processes, and strategies that optimized business operations and accelerated time-to-market for new products. Setup of a new business units over the past year.• Engineered three frameworks leveraging Airflow, Spark and Cloud to automate workflows and streamline the data processing. This enabled scalability, faster integrations and improved the overall productivity.• Developed automated pipelines that eliminated manual tasks, boosting data quality and operational efficiency.• Optimized Spark ETL pipelines by breaking the DAG lineage, checkpointing, reordering of joins, broadcasting, dynamic salting, removal of unwanted counts etc. reducing AWS cost by 60%.• Collaborated closely to embed machine learning models that prioritized customers and products using behavioral DNA, adding a strategic layer of intelligence to business processes.• Led a GenAI project across the four business units for delivering innovative data driven solutions.• Conducted daily stand-up meetings with the team to monitor progress, make timely course corrections, and address challenges to maintain project momentum.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

  2007 — 2012

• New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2015 — 2016

Skills

• Apache Kafka
• Hadoop
• Core Java
• Microsoft Office
• J2ee Application Development
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Scala
• Sql Server Management Studio
• Sql
• Pl/Sql
• Struts
• Oracle Pl/Sql Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Oracle
• Java
• Javascript
• Apache Spark
• Visual Basic
• Html