PRIYANKA MAKHIJA
Round Rock,United States
Summary
Principal Data Engineer with over 10 years of experience specializing in designing, building, and leading complex, cloud-native data solutions. My expertise is in rescuing and turning around at-risk projects by taking complete ownership, from re-architecting core ETL processes to hands-on performance tuning.
I am a certified GCP Data Engineer with deep expertise in multi-cloud platforms (GCP, OCI), big data (Spark, BigQuery), and legacy modernization (Teradata to BigQuery). I also possess hands-on experience with key AWS services (Redshift, S3, DynamoDB) and migrating legacy solutions involving SQL Server and SSIS.
I am also skilled in emerging AI technologies, including context and prompt engineering with models like Claude and Gemini.
My work history is defined by a tenacious, hands-on approach. I have a proven ability to solve complex logic issues. I am a team leader who mentors junior engineers, creates new best practices, and excels at translating complex technical details into clear business value for clients.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Data Engineer
The Nerdery LLC
07.2024 - Current
- Received "Exceptional" performance rating for single-handedly turning around the mission-critical project, resolving significant delays by re-architecting the core ETL process, an effort that earned direct praise from the CEO.
- Architected and delivered creative performance enhancements ahead of schedule, designing a novel solution using Cloud Run and Dataproc that earned "really significant" praise from leadership.
- Owned and executed the complex migration of legacy Teradata stored procedures to high-performance BigQuery code, resulting in superior performance and data quality.
- Demonstrated deep tenacity by resolving a "very complex" logic issue that plagued the team for a week, meticulously validating the fix row-by-row with the client to ensure 100% accuracy.
- Praised by leadership for the rare ability to translate "complex technical concepts into clear business value" for clients and stakeholders.
- Acted as a team leader by mentoring junior engineers, creating new documentation and best practices, and earning a GCP Data Engineering certification to become a subject matter expert.
Principal Software Developer (Data Engineering)
Oracle America Inc
11.2020 - 06.2024
- Led and mentored a team in the AdTech domain, architecting scalable cloud data platforms and defining MCP architecture using OCI, Kubernetes, Docker, Spark, and Python.
- Designed and implemented service-based Python solutions for new digital and offline marketing products, handling data from hundreds of companies.
- Tackled complex big data challenges at a multi-petabyte scale.
- Led the migration of core legacy data projects from SQL Server/SSIS to modern platforms, demonstrating proficiency in supporting and retiring older technologies required by clients.
- Managed the end-to-end migration of production data and processes from AWS (Redshift, S3, DynamoDB) to OCI, providing deep, architectural knowledge of these key AWS data services.
- Migrated all new development and production processing to the Oracle Cloud (OCI) for improved efficiency.
- Partnered with cross-functional business and operations teams to translate requirements and resolve technical implementation issues.
Data Engineer II
Index Exchange
08.2019 - 10.2020
- Designed, implemented, and maintained scalable data pipelines for ad bid and auction audit log ingestion using Spark and Scala.
- Automated data ingestion and transformation from diverse sources into HDFS and Vertica.
- Implemented automated CI/CD workflows and Liquibase deployments for reliable data loading and optimized SQL queries to enhance user experience.
- Developed Grafana dashboards to provide real-time insights into job performance, SLAs, and HDFS storage utilization.
Database Engineer
Oracle America Inc
10.2016 - 08.2019
- Contributed to the Data Cloud by ingesting third-party retailer data and integrating new customer data streams.
- Built and maintained dashboards to monitor data health and job performance.
- Developed strategies to migrate data from legacy systems to big data and columnar tools (Hadoop, Hive, AWS Redshift/S3).
Database Specialist
Clever Devices
08.2015 - 09.2016
- Wrote and optimized SQL stored procedures for data loading and database performance.
- Designed and implemented plans for data movement and modification requested by customers.
- Performed data extraction, analysis, and profiling from various file types (XML, CSV) received from transit authorities.
Associate Software Engineer
InterGlobe Technologies
03.2013 - 08.2015
- Performed data analysis and manual data profiling from different source systems.
- Analyzed customer data files to confirm conformance with requirements and identify data-level issues.
- Interacted with end-users to gain understanding of business processes and gather requirements.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
Maharashi Dayanand University
India01.2013
Timeline
Principal Data Engineer
The Nerdery LLC
07.2024 - Current
Principal Software Developer (Data Engineering)
Oracle America Inc
11.2020 - 06.2024
Data Engineer II
Index Exchange
08.2019 - 10.2020
Database Engineer
Oracle America Inc
10.2016 - 08.2019
Database Specialist
Clever Devices
08.2015 - 09.2016
Associate Software Engineer
InterGlobe Technologies
03.2013 - 08.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
Maharashi Dayanand University