Harika Sunkara
Data Scientist
4years in Analytics
5years in tech
4years with pySpark
Master’sUniversity of Arizona
Overview
Data Engineer with around 4 years of experience building batch and incremental ETL/ELT pipelines on Azure Databricks using PySpark and Delta Lake, supported by Azure Data Factory. Builds Bronze/Silver/Gold lakehouse datasets with data quality and schema validation for downstream analytics, ML, and AI use cases. Hands-on with MLflow and LLM application development using OpenAI GPT-4o and Streamlit.
Timeline
Data Engineer | Financial Analytics & Reporting Platform
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Middle
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Full-Time
Developed batch ETL pipelines on Azure Databricks using PySpark and Azure Data Factory to integrate trading, customer portfolio, and market data into analytics-ready datasets. Built Delta Lake Bronze/Silver/Gold transformations and implemented reconciliation and schema validation to improve reporting and ML data reliability. Designed fact and dimension tables in Azure Synapse to support portfolio performance and risk dashboards, and tuned Spark jobs for performance.
Databricks
pySpark
Azure Data Factory
Delta Lake
SQL
Git
Azure DevOps
CI/CD
University of Arizona
Master's Degree ·
Information Science (Machine Learning)
Data Engineer | Healthcare Analytics Lakehouse Platform
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Middle
Smart Circle Technology
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Full-Time
Built batch ETL pipelines with Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, PySpark, and AWS Glue to ingest healthcare claims, enrollment, provider, and clinical data from databases, REST APIs, and flat files. Implemented Medallion-style Bronze/Silver/Gold layers in Delta Lake with schema validation, deduplication, and business transformations for analytics and predictive modeling. Created incremental ingestion and CDC workflows for eligibility, claim status, and provider changes, with data quality checks and monitoring aligned to PHI handling.
Azure Data Factory
Databricks
pySpark
Delta Lake
AWS Glue
SQL
Rest API
Data Engineer | ETL and Data Quality Support
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Middle
Step Next Pvt. Ltd.
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Full-Time
Wrote Python and SQL scripts to clean, transform, and validate structured datasets under guidance from senior engineers. Supported ETL data checks including null handling, schema checks, and duplicate identification, and produced SQL reconciliation outputs for team review. Documented pipeline steps, data issues, and test results to support reliable downstream processing.
Python
SQL
Projects
English–Spanish Bidirectional LLM Translator
Built a Python translation app using the OpenAI GPT-4o API with a Streamlit UI for bidirectional English–Spanish translation. Designed prompt templates to preserve context, tone, and idiomatic phrasing. Integrated REST calls with JSON handling and implemented error handling, then iterated on prompts using sample sentence evaluations.
Technical skills
Languages
4
SQL
Python
Java
Scala
Databases
7
Delta Lake
Databricks
PostgreSQL
Google BigQuery
MySQL
Oracle
Snowflake
DevOps
8
Rest API
Git
Azure DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Amazon S3
GCP
Other
31
pySpark
Azure Data Factory
AWS Glue
LLM
ChatGPT
Amazon Redshift
Azure SQL Database
MS SQL
Power BI
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Lambda
GPT-4
Streamlit
Apache Kafka
GitHub
Grafana
Airflow
MLFlow
OpenAI
Spark
Prometheus
Copilot
Cursor
Machine Learning
RAG
Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
HIPAA
Dimensional Modeling
ETL/ELT
IAM
Job preferences
- Work permits
- United States
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