Nishant Panwar
Data Engineering | Open-source Enthusiast | Delivering Scalable, Cost-Efficient Data Platforms | Data Lakehouse
- Role
- Engineering Manager at Nielsen
- Location
- Gurugram, HR, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nishant Panwar
With over 9.5 years of experience in data engineering - building data infrastructure, data platforms, data lakes, data Lakehouses, Data warehouses, data pipelines.Architected a scalable 70TB+ Hudi data lakehouse platform, processing 50K messages per seconds, achieving 30-seconds query response, enabling seamless data access, improve governance, and analytics across the organisationLed Migration of existing data to BigQuery, saved cost of ~ per month
Experience
Engineering Manager
Apr 2025 — Present · Gurugram, IN
For over 100 years, Nielsen has been a global leader in audience measurement, data and analytics, shaping the future of media. Measuring behaviour across all channels and platforms to discover what audiences love. It empowers clients with trusted intelligence that fuels action.As an Engineering Manager at Nielsen, I lead the design, development, and delivery of large-scale data lake and data platform solutions. I focus on architectural leadership, strategic planning, and technical guidance, balancing engineering priorities with business objectives.Key achievements- Strategic cost optimisation of 700k$$/year- Leveraging AI; reducing development and debugging efforts by 40%- Provide architectural blueprints and technical leadership to engineering team- Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and process to ensure best quality product platform- Led the design and development of large-scale data lake and data platform solutions at Nielsen- Focused on architectural leadership and strategic planning to align engineering priorities with business objectives- Successfully migrated Talend-based ETL jobs to AWS EMR-PySpark, achieving an 80% reduction in runtime.
Education
Vellore Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering
2011 — 2015
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