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Building pipelines that turn raw data into product decisions.

I'm Bhanu Kalyan Pulibandla, a Data Engineer designing scalable ETL pipelines, cloud data warehouses, and BI dashboards โ€” from extraction and modeling to the insight teams actually act on.

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Summary

Data Engineer with experience in SQL, ETL, and data modeling, building scalable data pipelines, data warehouses, and BI dashboards that turn raw data into product and business insight.

M.S. in Computer Science (STEM) from Roosevelt University. Background spans data extraction, transformation, and loading; data quality and governance; dashboard and visualization design; and close collaboration with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into data solutions.

Quick Facts

RoleData Engineer
LocationChicago, IL
EducationM.S. Computer Science
CloudAWS ยท Azure ยท GCP
FocusETL ยท Warehousing ยท BI
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Faster data retrieval via SQL query optimization
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Reduction in report generation time
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Improvement in stakeholder insight visibility
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Saved by automating BI reporting workflows

Where I've worked

From production ETL pipelines across multi-cloud environments to hospital-scale analytics platforms.

Mar 2026 โ€” Present
Data Engineer
Softtechers LLC ยท Remote
  • Design and build scalable ETL pipelines for data extraction, transformation, and loading across multiple source systems.
  • Develop data models and support data warehouse architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
  • Optimize SQL queries and perform database performance tuning to improve pipeline reliability and reduce processing time.
  • Implement pipeline monitoring and logging to support data quality, governance, and compliance; collaborate with analysts, developers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into data solutions.
Jul 2025 โ€” Jul 2026
Intern Mentor & Data Automation Specialist
Roosevelt University โ€” RISE Incubator
  • Built workflow automation, data tracking, and documentation systems for a university makerspace, including QR-code equipment manuals and digital reservation workflows.
  • Mentored a team of student interns and used Clay CRM for company research, lead generation, and contact management supporting incubator partnerships.
Jan 2022 โ€” Sep 2022
Programmer Analyst Trainee
Cognizant Technology Solutions ยท Bangalore, India
  • Ran the full pipeline โ€” extract, clean, transform, analyze, report โ€” on hospital operations data spanning thousands of records across patient, billing, appointment, and insurance sources.
  • Wrote and optimized SQL queries against MySQL (joins, filtering, aggregation), improving data retrieval speed by approximately 30%.
  • Built interactive dashboards in Tableau, Power BI, QlikView, and Qlik Sense for production KPI reporting across hospital departments; reduced report generation time ~40% and saved ~6 hours/week by automating BI workflows.
  • Presented findings to senior BI leads and SMEs; planned and prioritized ETL tasks, troubleshot pipeline/reporting issues, and identified process improvements.

Featured work

Selected engagements where pipeline design and dashboarding moved real business metrics.

Cognizant ยท Healthcare Analytics
Hospital Management Analytics System

Designed an end-to-end analytics pipeline structuring Patient, Billing, Appointments, and Insurance data into 20+ visualizations across 5 production dashboards โ€” applying data warehousing and data modeling principles that improved report turnaround speed and stakeholder insight visibility by over 50%.

TableauQlikViewQlik SensePower BIMySQLData Modeling
20+ Visualizations 5 Dashboards 50%+ Faster Insight Patient Billing Patient ยท Billing ยท Insurance
Softtechers LLC ยท Current
Multi-Cloud ETL & Warehouse Platform

Building and operating scalable ETL pipelines spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP โ€” covering data modeling, warehouse architecture, query performance tuning, and pipeline monitoring/logging to support data quality, governance, and compliance across source systems.

AWSAzureGCPPythonSQLPipeline Monitoring
AWS AZURE GCP Warehouse BI Layer

Technical toolkit

Breadth across the full data stack โ€” from pipeline code to cloud infrastructure to the BI layer stakeholders see.

Skill Breadth by Category Programming Languages 5 ETL & Data Modeling 5 Data Quality & Governance 5 Cloud 3 BI & Visualization 4 Databases & Tools 4

Programming Languages

PythonSQLRCVerilog HDL

ETL & Data Modeling

ETL/ELT DesignData ExtractionData ModelingData WarehousingData Lakes

Data Quality & Governance

ValidationPipeline MonitoringLoggingGovernanceCompliance

Cloud

AWS (EC2, IAM, S3)AzureGoogle Cloud

BI & Visualization

TableauPower BIQlikViewQlik Sense

Databases & Tools

MySQLQuery OptimizationGitLinux

Foundations

Education

M.S. in Computer Science
Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
Aug 2023 โ€” May 2025
B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Graduated Aug 2022

Certifications

Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
Aug 2025
AWS Certified Solutions Architect โ€“ Associate
In Progress

Let's build something with your data.

Open to Data Engineering opportunities in Chicago and remote. Reach out anytime.