
Vikhyat Kumar Srivastava
Lead Data Engineer · Solution Designer · Big Data
Greater Noida (West), Uttar Pradesh - India
Product developer Lead with 15 years of experience in Data Engineering and Software Development. I design and build data platforms across GCP and AWS — from Spark pipelines and Medallion architectures to cloud migrations and Databricks lakehouses. Equally at home leading cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and writing about the ideas that fascinate me.
Skills & Technologies
Experience
AI Practitioner
· Greater Noida (W)
Developed various projects leveraging advanced AI-assisted engineering workflows (GitHub Copilot & Claude) to accelerate the product development lifecycle. Designed and deployed complex, end-to-end architectures, including an IPL fantasy platform on Hetzner featuring manual-trigger ETL pipelines, a secure full-stack e-commerce solution, an Android test automation framework, and a Vercel-hosted professional portfolio. Currently engineering a custom VS Code extension to track, analyze, and optimize LLM token consumption and development costs
Lead Data Engineer
Thoughtworks Inc. · Barcelona
Developed a data model for a German retail company. Built an ingestion pipeline based on Medallion architecture using AWS S3 and SageMaker AI. Explored data extraction from coloured graphs using linear expressions and pioneered an AI-first system delivery process.
Lead Product Developer
Gainwell Technologies · Bengaluru
Integrated and implemented Databricks LakeFlow Connect to build data pipelines using PostgreSQL per Medallion architecture. Evolved an in-house ingestion framework to support legacy data pipelines feeding the new data design.
Lead Data Engineer · Solution Designer · SME
Tata Consultancy Services · Delhi NCR & London
Designed reusable ETL frameworks in Python and DBT for Banking & Finance clients. Migrated legacy on-premises applications to GCP (Dataflow, BigQuery). Achieved a 40% reduction in Spark job execution time through targeted tuning. Led cross-functional teams across requirements gathering, data warehouse design, and BDD/TDD testing strategies.
Production Support Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services · Delhi NCR
Automated manual production tasks, implemented seamless deployments, resolved complex escalated incidents, and created custom SQL/Tableau reports providing actionable insights.
Senior Production Support Analyst · SME
Tata Consultancy Services · Delhi NCR & London
Managed vendor relationships, championed change-control best practices, performed root cause analysis on production incidents, and utilised Splunk for log analysis, monitoring, and capacity planning.
Developer
Tata Consultancy Services · Chennai
Built dynamic web applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery; collaborated cross-functionally to deliver projects on time.
Education
Bachelor of Technology — Computer Science & Engineering
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow
Senior Secondary - Class 12
Dr. Rizvi Learners' Academy, Jaunpur
Secondary - Class 10
Dr. Rizvi Learners' Academy, Jaunpur
Certifications
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Whether it's a data challenge, a creative project, or just a good conversation — I'm always up for it.