Nikitha Dontha

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ABOUT NIKITHA DONTHA

4+ years orchestrating production data pipelines, ensuring reliable execution of complex workflows4+ years of Databricks orchestration expertise: Built medallion-layered pipelines, automated Workflows with dependency management, and implemented Unity Catalog for data lineage and access controlDesigned SQL-based data pipelines creating fact/dimension models to support enterprise analytics and BI reporting.Implemented Airflow-based scheduling solutions with directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), managing job dependencies, failure recovery, backfills, and performance monitoring for daily ETL jobs. Designed and configured CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins integrating with Git, automated testing, and environment-specific deployments.Deep Kafka streaming knowledge implementing S3 as sink for reliable data ingestion—configured producers/consumers, topic management, and batching for petabyte-scale event processing.Developed dbt models (models, seeds, snapshots) and orchestrated execution through Airflow—configured dbt tasks, Jinja templating, and incremental builds for scalable data marts.Engineered production regulatory reports with end-to-end automation: raw data ingestion, transformation via SQL/stored procedures, compliance checks, and scheduled delivery to regulatory bodies.Developed Python-based data ingestion frameworks from APIs/servers, featuring connection pooling, parallel processing, JSON parsing, and automated schema evolution for reliable pipeline operations.