Sasank K

Experience

1. Data Engineer

   Thrivent

   May 2023 — Present · TX, US

   Designed and developed scalable ETL pipelines using AWS Glue and Snowflake to streamline ingestion of complex healthcare and financial datasets, reducing processing time by 40%.•Built real-time streaming ingestion pipelines from Kafka event hubs into PySpark, enabling fraud detection and real-time analytics.•Architected a Delta Lake-based storage system in Azure Databricks with ACID transactions, schema enforcement, and rollback capabilities.•Automated API ingestion workflows with Azure Logic Apps and integrated with Snowflake to support compliance and regulatory reporting.•Deployed DBT models (staging, intermediate, mart layers) with test coverage, Jinja macros, and reusable configurations to standardize transformations.•Orchestrated Airflow DAGs with SLA monitoring, retries, and automated alerts via Slack and email for proactive pipeline monitoring.•Developed Power BI and Tableau dashboards to track KPIs, pipeline SLAs, and executive-level insights, ensuring transparency across teams.•Partnered with DevOps to implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Terraform for automated, multi-environment deployments.•Implemented role-based access controls (RBAC) and data masking policies in Snowflake to ensure compliance with internal governance frameworks.•Mentored junior engineers and created internal playbooks for Snowflake, DBT, and Spark, supporting team skill development and knowledge sharing.