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Zaid Chaudhary

Zaid Chaudhary

Automation Engineer – Data Engineering & Analytics

Mumbai, India
70
Profile Score

Skills & Expertise (24)

Snowflake Advanced
8.1/10
1
Years Exp
Airflow Advanced
7.6/10
1
Years Exp
AWS (Glue, Lambda, S3, Lake Formation, Athena) Intermediate
7.2/10
1
Years Exp
Databricks Intermediate
7.0/10
1
Years Exp
Tableau Intermediate
6.9/10
1
Years Exp
Iceberg CI / CD Kubernetes Docker Git QlikView Excel Streamlit Power BI CSV JSON Parquet Dimensional Modeling Kafka DBT SparkSQL PySpark GCP Azure

Work Experience

Automation Engineer – Data Engineering & Analytics

Cushman & Wakefield

Nov 2024 - Nov 2025

Architected and maintained a Snowflake-based analytical data warehouse, designing incremental ETL pipelines (CDC + batch) ingesting data from AWS sources; reduced data quality defects by 40%. Built and operated production-grade Airflow DAGs with dependency management, retries, SLA monitoring, and failure alerts (email/Slack), cutting pipeline downtime by 50% and improving overall reliability. Implemented end-to-end orchestration, monitoring, and alerting workflows to ensure consistent data freshness, lineage, and rapid incident detection across analytics pipelines. Developed curated Snowflake data marts to support BI and analytics use cases; automated Tableau refreshes via scheduled pipelines, eliminating manual SQL extracts and saving 35–40 hours/week. Standardized pipeline patterns and operational runbooks, improving maintainability and reducing time-to-resolution during pipeline failures.

Data Engineer

Jersey Stem

May 2024 - Nov 2024

Engineered incremental Snowflake ETL pipelines processing 1M+ student engagement records, producing curated fact and dimension tables for analytics and BI; improved reporting accuracy by 20% for program stakeholders. Designed and operated Airflow DAGs integrated with GitLab CI for automated deployment, data validation, and scheduled refreshes, saving 10+ hours/week in manual analytics operations while ensuring reliable data delivery. Created Databricks/Spark jobs to produce near-real-time analytics datasets, enabling trend dashboards that flagged participation drop-offs and reduced cloud costs by 20% (~$25K/year). Embedded ML predictions into dashboards by exposing transformed Snowflake models, enhancing retention forecasting accuracy by 22%.

Education

Master of Science, Data Science, (STEM Designated) - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

- 2023 · Afghanistan

Master of Science, Management and Information Systems (STEM Designated) - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

- 2024 · Afghanistan

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Profile Score Breakdown

📷 Photo 10/10
📄 Resume 10/10
💼 Job Title 10/10
✍️ Bio 0/10
🛠️ Skills 20/20
🎓 Education 10/10
⏱️ Experience 5/15
💰 Rate 0/5
🏆 Certs 0/5
Verified 5/5
Total Score 70/100

Profile Overview

Member sinceFeb 2026

Availability Details

Visa Status

Citizen

Relocation

Open to Relocation

Skills (24)

Snowflake Airflow AWS (Glue, Lambda, S3, Lake Formation, Athena) Databricks Tableau Iceberg CI / CD Kubernetes Docker Git +14 more