Nitish Songara-
Data Engineer
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Bhopal, India
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SUMMARY
Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience at Deloitte and Ascendeum, skilled in ETL/ELT, PySpark,
and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, MongoDB). Delivered 5x faster workflows, 60% query gains, and
99.9% reliable pipelines on terabyte-scale data. An MBA in Finance adds strength in ROI analysis,
cost optimization, and data-driven decision making. I leverage AI tools to speed development,
automate workflows, and stay adaptable in fast-evolving data ecosystems.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Ascendeum
06/2025 – Present | Remote
Associate Data Engineer
Automated ETL pipelines processing 500M+ events/month from S3 into MongoDB, powering ad
analytics dashboards for 50+ stakeholders.
Improved MongoDB performance with indexing and sharding, boosting ingestion and read speeds
by 60% and reducing dashboard latency from 30s to under 10s.
Migrated workflows from Pandas to PySpark, achieving a 5x performance improvement on 200GB+
daily datasets.
Derived KPIs from raw event data to create actionable performance metrics, enabling clients to
track outcomes and optimize campaigns in real time.
Collaborated with business teams to design data-driven ad strategies, resulting in a 12–15%
increase in client ROI.
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Deloitte
08/2021 – 05/2025 | Bengaluru, India
Data Engineer
Designed and maintained Azure Data Factory and Databricks pipelines, processing 20M+ records
weekly (~1TB/month) from 10+ sources.
Built modular PySpark and SQL frameworks, cutting pipeline development time by 30% and
improving maintainability.
Developed SQL models and curated views powering dashboards for 200+ business users,
improving query performance by 40% and saving 300+ engineering hours annually.
Implemented SQL Server optimization routines, reducing reporting query times by 20–25% and
accelerating executive decision cycles.
Enhanced pipeline reliability to 99.9% uptime through automated data quality checks, proactive
monitoring, and schema evolution handling.
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SKILLS
Python | SQL | PySpark | Databricks | Delta Lake | Azure Data Factory | MongoDB |
ETL/ELT | Data Modeling | Azure | AWS | Power BI | Data Structures & Algorithms |
Query Optimization | Data Quality Automation | Monitoring & Debugging
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration - Finance
Lakshmi Narain College of Technology
Completed alongside full-time role at Deloitte
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET DAVV)
10/2021 – 08/2023 | Bhopal, India
07/2017 – 07/2021 | Indore, India
CERTIFICATIONS
DP-203: Azure Data Engineer
Associate
DP-300: Database
Administrator Associate
AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals
