Swati Gundar
@Swati_Gundar
Data Engineer at Cognizant
India
Data Engineer with 3 years of experience in designing and optimizing scalable data pipelines using Azure Cloud, Databricks, PySpark, SQL, and Power BI. Expertise in building ETL workflows, data modeling, performance tuning, and analytics solutions. Strong ability to transform raw data into business insights by leveraging modern data lake and warehouse architectures.
Experience
Data Engineer
Cognizant
Designed scalable data ingestion workflows in Azure Data Factory (ADF) to automate extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) from diverse data sources into Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), achieving a 25% reduction in overall data processing time. Built metadata-driven ETL pipelines using Azure Databricks and PySpark to standardize and curate datasets into Silver and Gold layers, improving throughput and reducing processing time by 25% on large workloads. Monitored and optimized data pipelines with ADF monitoring tools, proactively troubleshooting issues, ensuring 99.9% pipeline uptime, and implementing performance improvements to meet stringent SLAs. Developed interactive Power BI dashboards and semantic data models, integrated with Azure Synapse and SQL, enabling robust KPI tracking, automated refresh schedules, and secure access through Row-Level Security (RLS). Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather data requirements and ensure data architecture, governance, and compliance align with organizational objectives.
Education
Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot
Bachelor of Engineering
Information Science Engineering
Licenses & Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamental
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
Microsoft
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
Databricks