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Data Engineer résumé example — mid level, written for India, set in the Terminal design
Data Engineer résumé example, in the Terminal design

Six years of pipeline work in Indian fintech, including a contract stint, measured in freshness, cost and failed runs.

Written for India, at mid level, in the data & analytics field, shown in the Terminal design. Every name, employer, address and number below is invented.

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Rohit Nambiar — Data Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Data engineer with six years on high-volume financial and marketplace pipelines. Runs the ingestion layer behind 2.1 billion daily transaction events, and rebuilt a ledger reconciliation that took 14 hours into a stream that settles in nine minutes.

Experience

Data Engineer, Arclane Financial Technologies · February 2023 – present

Platform team of eleven. Owns ingestion, the lakehouse and the data-quality gate in front of reporting.

  • Owns the ingestion layer landing 2.1 billion transaction events a day; p95 freshness stayed under seven minutes through a threefold rise in volume.
  • Replaced a nightly bulk dump with change-data capture, cutting the ledger reconciliation window from 14 hours to nine minutes.
  • Cut cluster spend ₹48 lakh a year by moving 70 Spark jobs to autoscaling clusters and rewriting the three that shuffled 4 TB needlessly.
  • Built the quality gate that blocks a bad partition before reporting sees it; it has caught 61 upstream schema changes in 18 months.

Data Engineer (contract), Orenda Marketplace · April 2022 – January 2023

Ten-month fixed-term contract to stand up a first data warehouse.

  • Delivered the first warehouse covering orders, payouts and sellers in nine months as the only data engineer on a four-person team.
  • Wrote the orchestration framework the client still runs: 180 pipelines generated from YAML, with backfills that cost one command instead of a day.

Associate Data Engineer, Auralite Analytics · July 2020 – March 2022

  • Built the nightly ETL for a media measurement product, processing 400 GB of viewership logs inside a 90-minute window.
  • Took the nightly pipeline from one failed run in five to one in forty by making writes idempotent and retries safe to repeat.

Education

  • B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering · National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal · July 2016 – May 2020

Skills

  • Languages: Python, Scala, SQL, Bash
  • Platform: Spark, Kafka, Databricks, Airflow, AWS, Delta Lake
  • Pipelines: Change data capture, Debezium, dbt, Data quality gates, Backfills
  • Practice: Cost tuning, Schema evolution, On-call, Runbooks

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate — Amazon Web Services
  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional — Databricks

Why this Data Engineer résumé works

  • Every bullet pairs a system with its scale and a result: “2.1 billion transaction events a day” and “from 14 hours to nine minutes” tell a hiring manager the size of the work before the tools.
  • The summary leads with the one change a next employer would want repeated, a 14-hour reconciliation turned into a stream, rather than a list of technologies.
  • Cost sits beside engineering: ₹48 lakh a year taken off the cluster bill reads as business judgement, which is what separates an experienced data engineer from a pipeline builder.
  • The Orenda Marketplace contract is labelled and written like a permanent job, a first warehouse delivered in nine months and 180 pipelines the client still runs, so the short tenure raises no questions.

Data Engineer résumé: common questions

How long should a data engineer resume be?

One page up to about eight years of experience, two after that. Keep the earliest roles to two bullets each and spend the space on the systems you ran most recently and their scale.

Which skills should a data engineer resume list?

Group them: languages (SQL, Python, Scala), processing (Spark, Kafka, Flink), orchestration (Airflow), and the cloud warehouse you used. Name the versions or platforms the job description names, and show each one in a bullet too.

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