Vijayabhaskara R.

Experience

1. Data Engineer

   Palantir Technologies

   Aug 2025 — Present · Beaumont, TX, US

   Design and build scalable ELT ingestion pipelines on Databricks and AWS S3 using PySpark and Delta Lake, processing structured and unstructured data from 6+ enterprise sources into a governed Medallion architecture serving business analytics and AI teams.Establish data modeling standards and dbt transformation layers on Delta Lake, implementing SCD Type 2 patterns, schema evolution controls, and incremental load strategies adopted across 3 downstream engineering and AI teams.Engineer Apache Airflow DAGs with pipeline observability, SLA monitoring, and automated alerting on AWS, reducing mean time to detect data incidents from 4 hours to under 20 minutes across all production data pipelines.Implement enterprise data governance using Unity Catalog and AWS IAM, enforcing data lineage, role-based access control, and data masking policies while maintaining RAG ingestion pipelines on AWS S3 that process documents.Drive cloud cost optimization across AWS and Databricks by tuning cluster autoscaling, Delta Lake Z-ordering, and PySpark job configurations, reducing monthly compute costs by 25% while sustaining full pipeline throughput.

Education

• Manipal University Jaipur

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management

• Narayana Junior College - India

  Intermediate, Mathematics Physics Chemistry

• Oxford Public School - Sattenapalli

  Matriculation, Mathematics Physics Chemistry

• Lamar University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science