Ruchitha Gande
Plant City,FL
Summary
Data Engineer with expertise in Python, SQL, and ETL/ELT pipeline development. Proficient in Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and GCP, emphasizing engineering best practices and data quality. Experienced in modern data warehousing and pipeline debugging, delivering high-value datasets for analytics and machine learning teams.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Engineer
Coding Mind
07.2025 - Current
- Developed and productionized Snowflake and dbt models as primary analytics source, reducing manual data preparation time over 60%.
- Re-engineered legacy ingestion jobs into Airflow DAGs, decreasing pipeline runtime from hours to minutes while enhancing reliability during peak loads.
- Implemented data validation checks, schema tests, and anomaly alerts, preventing recurring downstream reporting failures.
- Collaborated with product engineers and analysts to redesign upstream event structures, eliminating inconsistent fields and simplifying transformations.
Full Stack Developer
Accenture
09.2021 - 07.2023
- Designed Python-based ETL pipelines to consolidate data from SQL Server, MySQL, and APIs for unified analytics.
- Enhanced SQL transformations and warehouse queries, achieving up to 40% improvement in dashboard refresh times.
- Developed CI/CD workflows for data jobs using Git, ensuring reliable deployments and minimizing pipeline rollbacks.
- Analyzed logs and system behavior to investigate and resolve complex pipeline failures, reducing on-call incidents significantly.
Education
Master’s degree - computer science
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pomona, CA05-2025
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Data modeling
- Data warehousing concepts
- ETL/ELT pipeline development
- Data quality engineering
- Testing
- Analytical/Reporting schema
- Cross-functional stakeholder
- Collaboration
- Data product development
- Performance optimization
- Debugging
- Agile/Scrum
- AI-assisted development
- Root cause analysis
- snowflake
- airflow
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- GCP
Timeline
Data Engineer
Coding Mind
07.2025 - Current
Full Stack Developer
Accenture
09.2021 - 07.2023
Master’s degree - computer science
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona