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Ankit Kumar

@ankit532n

SDE III - DATA & AI Engineering at Skypoint AI

Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

Skypoint AIManipal Institute of Technology

Ankit Kumar is an SDE III specializing in Data and AI Engineering at Skypoint AI. He has extensive experience in designing Lakehouse provisioning, CDC pipelines, and migrating metastores to Unity Catalog. He has engineered advanced AI tools, including autonomous agents and RAG solutions, resulting in significant revenue growth and system efficiency. Previously, he served as a Data Engineer at Wipro, focusing on connected car analytics for Mercedes-Benz R&D India. He holds a B.Tech in Information Technology with a minor in Big Data from Manipal Institute of Technology.

Experience

SDE III - DATA & AI Engineering

Skypoint AI

•Apr 2022 - Present•Bangalore/Ranchi, India

Designed and implemented end-to-end Lakehouse provisioning and CDC pipelines; developed Databricks SQL and Unity Catalog provisioning functions; migrated metastore from Hive to Unity Catalog; re-architected CDC to leverage Azure Service Bus and Event Grid. Engineered advanced AI tooling for dynamic query execution and developed an autonomous agent using the CMS Marketplace API. Designed a unified Markdown Converter API and engineered an enterprise Go-Live Devin AI Agent using a hybrid RAG + Gemini SDK solution. Transitioned Copilot Agents to a modular microservices architecture.

Data Engineer

Wipro

•Sep 2020 - Mar 2022

Worked as a Data Engineer in the Connected Car Data Analytics team of Mercedes-Benz R&D India (MBRDI). Designed and implemented a quality framework, built Databricks ETL jobs and Azure Data Factory pipelines with Google BigQuery integration. Monitored, troubleshooted, and optimized pipelines for reliable data delivery.

Software Development Intern

Benciti Technology Pvt Ltd

•Jan 2020 - Sep 2020

Developed interactive problem components for a cross-platform mobile app using C++ and Cocos2d-x.

Education

Manipal Institute of Technology

B.tech

Information Technology (MINOR SPECIALIZATION: BIG DATA)

Jan 2016 - Jan 2020

Skills

Python
PySpark
SQL
Spark
LangChain
HuggingFace
LLMOps
Azure Data Factory
Azure Functions
Azure Durable Functions
RAG
Agentic Patterns
FastAPI
FAISS
Databricks
Databricks SQL
Unity Catalog
VS Code
Kubernetes
Service Bus
Data Lake
Azure DevOps
Git
Jira
Confluence
Big Data
ETL
Change Data Capture
Azure Open AI
Prompt Engineering
Generative AI
LLM
OpenAI SDKs
DBT
Docker
Azure AI Search
Azure AI Foundry
Redis
DeltaLake
CosmosDB
AstraDB (Vector)