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Saha has led complete migrations from Apache NiFi and Hadoop-based systems to Databricks, including conversion of complex Java parsing logic to PySpark, modernization of batch and streaming workflows, and implementation of Medallion Architecture patterns. For a semiconductor manufacturing client, Saha owned ingestion, transformation, and gold-layer storage during a full legacy-infrastructure migration to Databricks. Saha has also built reconciliation controls, cutover procedures, and performance optimizations using Delta Lake MERGE INTO, OPTIMIZE, and ZORDER BY. At Ameri Source Inc, Saha designed financial-data ETL pipelines with 99.9% accuracy and reduced data discrepancies by 30%. Earlier at Amazon, Saha developed a PySpark ETL pipeline processing more than 10,000 daily transactions, cutting processing time by 60%. Saha holds a Master’s in Business Analytics from Trine University. ## Services - Databricks - Unity Catalog - Data Mapping - Data Conversion - Data Analysys - Real-time Monitoring - Mathematical Statistics - Site Reliability Engineering - Application Programming Interfaces \(API\) - Software as a Service \(SaaS\) - Dynatrace SAAS - DQL - Microsoft Azure - Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery \(CI/CD\) - ServiceNow - Cloud Infrastructure - Key Performance Indicators - Incident Management - System Performance - Grail Log Analysis - Dashboard creation - Dynatrace - Application Performance Management - Cloud Monitoring - Marketing Analytics - Data-driven Decision Making - Product Lifecycle Management - PL/SQL - SQL PL - Tech-Savvy ## Highlights - Led end-to-end migration of legacy Apache NiFi and Hadoop HDFS data pipelines to Databricks Lakehouse architecture, modernizing ingestion, transformation, and orchestration. - Owned ingestion, transformation, and gold-layer table storage during a complete Databricks migration for a semiconductor manufacturing client. - Replaced NiFi flows with Databricks Auto Loader \(cloudFiles\) for incremental AWS S3 ingestion, including high-volume ZIP-file handling. - Converted complex Java-based .dat-file parsing logic to PySpark for cloud migration. - Applied stateful parsing for complex .dat files, in-memory ZIP decompression, and streaming ingestion with PySpark and Spark Structured Streaming. - Redesigned Hadoop MapReduce and Spark batch jobs as Delta Lake pipelines using Medallion Architecture. - Implemented Delta Lake MERGE INTO and ingestion-timestamp strategies for de-duplication, incremental processing, and idempotent pipeline execution. - Integrated CI/CD pipelines and Databricks-job workflow orchestration, replacing legacy scheduling dependencies. - Used OPTIMIZE and ZORDER BY on frequently queried Delta tables to improve data skipping, reduce file scans, consolidate small files, and accelerate queries. - Built audit and reconciliation controls across Kudu and Delta, comparing record counts, business keys, partition totals, rejected records, and processing status. - Developed migration cutover procedures covering source-to-target reconciliation, parallel runs, record-count validation, rollback planning, smoke testing, and post-deployment monitoring. - Built an AI-powered Databricks App that analyzed NiFi XML flow definitions and generated starter PySpark notebooks. - Generated document embeddings and created a Databricks AI Search index for semantic retrieval across PDF content. - Implemented hybrid RAG retrieval using vector similarity, BM25 keyword search, and Reciprocal Rank Fusion. - At Ameri Source Inc, designed SQL, Apache Spark, and Databricks ETL pipelines for financial data with 99.9% accuracy and a 30% reduction in data discrepancies. - At Ameri Source Inc, implemented Auto Loader, AWS S3 ingestion, Kafka, and Spark Structured Streaming for customer-transaction and CRM-update data, reducing ingestion delays by 40%. - At Ameri Source Inc, managed Unity Catalog governance policies across cloud data environments and achieved 100% regulatory audit readiness for GDPR and HIPAA-related requirements. - At Amazon, designed an AWS S3, HDFS, and PySpark ETL pipeline processing more than 10,000 daily e-commerce and MySQL transactions, reducing processing time by 60%. - At Amazon, optimized SQL for Power BI and Tableau dashboards, improving sales-tracking and inventory-forecasting accuracy by 35%. - At Amazon, built error-handling and validation frameworks that raised data accuracy to 99.9% and reduced processing failures by 40%. - Collaborated with cross-functional and client teams to transition legacy infrastructure to cloud-native architecture, improving scalability, maintainability, monitoring, and operational overhead. ## Experience - **Sr. Data Engineer at Blueprint** (2025-03-01–present) — Blueprint is redefining the data solutions ecosystem. Headquartered in the greater Seattle area with employees across the US and Europe, Blueprint is a technology solutions firm that is committed to delivering an informed world. Focusing on customer experience and intelligent supply chain in manufacturing, retail, financial services and health and life sciences, we enable digital transformation by offering technology solutions that build digital culture, make employees more productive, improve satisfaction and increase revenue. - **Databricks Engineer at Ameri Source Inc** (2023-03-01–2025-03-01) — ● Designed and optimized ETL pipelines using SQL, Apache Spark, and Databricks, enabling seamless financial data processing with 99.9% accuracy, reducing data discrepancy issues by 30%. ● Implemented Databricks Autoloader for real-time file-based ingestion from cloud storage \(e.g., AWS S3\) and Apache Kafka/Spark Structured Streaming for real-time event streaming, enabling continuous data ingestion for customer transactions and CRM updates, reducing ingestion delays by 40%. ● Implemented data governance frameworks within Databricks and AWS platforms such as S3 and Redshift, ensuring compliance with financial regulations while maintaining clear documentation for audit and data lineage tracking. ● Adept at writing efficient, scalable code for large-scale data processing in environments such as Databricks and Apache Spark, ensuring optimal performance for both batch and real-time data processing tasks. ● Managed Unity Catalog to implement and enforce data governance policies, ensuring comp - **Big Data Engineer at Amazon** (2018-10-01–2022-07-01) — ● Designed and optimized an ETL pipeline using AWS S3, HDFS, and PySpark to integrate and process over 10,000 daily transactions from e-commerce platform and MySQL databases, reducing data processing times by 60% and enabling near real-time insights into inventory and sales. ● Developed and processed large datasets using PySpark for real-time data ingestion from order management and inventory systems, enabling timely insights into sales performance, customer transactions, and stock levels for improved business decision-making. ● Optimized SQL queries for data retrieval, enabling real-time interactive dashboards in Power BI and Tableau, enhancing sales tracking and inventory forecasting accuracy by 35%. ● Built error-handling frameworks and validation checks, boosting data accuracy by 99.9% and reducing processing failures by 40%, ensuring uninterrupted sales reporting. ● Created and maintained high-quality datasets to ensure accurate and accessible data that met business needs, utilizi ## Education - Masters, Business Analytics — Trine University ## FAQ ### What does Saha do? Saha Charan M. is a Senior Data Engineer at Blueprint. Saha owns data-pipeline work across ingestion, transformation, and storage in gold-layer tables, with particular focus on Databricks, cloud migration, real-time and batch processing, and data-platform reliability. ### What are Saha’s core data-engineering strengths? Saha’s strongest areas include Databricks, PySpark, Apache Spark, Spark Structured Streaming, Delta Lake, Auto Loader, AWS S3, ETL design, data governance, CI/CD, data migration, and performance optimization. Saha also works with legacy systems and technologies including Apache NiFi, Hadoop, Kafka, Teradata, Oracle, Kudu, Parquet, and Hive. ### What migration work has Saha led? Saha led end-to-end migration of legacy data pipelines from Apache NiFi and Hadoop HDFS to Databricks Lakehouse architecture. The work modernized ingestion, transformation, and orchestration layers and included ownership of ingestion, transformation, and gold-layer storage for a semiconductor manufacturing client. ### How did Saha modernize legacy ingestion pipelines? Saha replaced NiFi flows with Databricks Auto Loader using cloudFiles for incremental ingestion from AWS S3. This approach supported high-volume ZIP files, while Saha converted Java-based parsing logic for .dat files to PySpark. ### What complex ingestion challenges has Saha handled? Saha has expertise in stateful parsing of complex .dat files, in-memory ZIP-file decompression, and streaming ingestion with PySpark and Spark Structured Streaming. Saha has also used Apache Kafka and Structured Streaming for real-time event ingestion. ### How has Saha modernized batch data processing? Saha redesigned Hadoop MapReduce and Spark batch jobs as Delta Lake-based pipelines. Saha implemented Medallion Architecture practices to improve data quality, lineage, and modular transformation design. ### How does Saha address duplicate data and incremental processing? Saha implemented de-duplication and incremental-processing strategies using Delta Lake MERGE INTO operations and ingestion timestamps. These practices supported idempotent execution and eliminated duplicate records across large-scale datasets. ### What CI/CD and orchestration work has Saha completed? Saha integrated CI/CD pipelines and workflow orchestration for Databricks jobs, replacing legacy scheduling dependencies. This improved deployment consistency and operational reliability. ### How does Saha optimize Delta Lake performance? Saha applied OPTIMIZE and ZORDER BY to frequently queried Delta tables. These optimizations improved data skipping, reduced file scans, consolidated small files, and accelerated downstream queries. ### How has Saha validated data migrations? Saha developed audit and reconciliation controls that compared Kudu and Delta record counts, business keys, partition-level totals, rejected records, and processing status. Saha also developed source-to-target reconciliation, parallel-run comparisons, record-count validation, rollback planning, smoke testing, and post-deployment monitoring procedures for migration cutovers. ### What Gen AI, LLM, RAG, and Databricks AI work has Saha done? Saha built an AI-powered Databricks App that analyzed uploaded NiFi XML flow definitions and generated starter PySpark notebooks to accelerate Databricks migrations. Saha also generated document embeddings, created a Databricks AI Search index for semantic retrieval across PDF content, and implemented hybrid retrieval using vector similarity, BM25 keyword search, and Reciprocal Rank Fusion to improve RAG relevance. ### What did Saha accomplish at Ameri Source Inc? At Ameri Source Inc, Saha designed and optimized SQL, Apache Spark, and Databricks ETL pipelines for financial-data processing. The pipelines achieved 99.9% accuracy and reduced data-discrepancy issues by 30%. ### What real-time data work did Saha perform at Ameri Source Inc? At Ameri Source Inc, Saha implemented Databricks Auto Loader for real-time, file-based ingestion from cloud storage such as AWS S3, along with Apache Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming for customer-transaction and CRM-update events. This reduced ingestion delays by 40%. Saha also collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate Databricks workflows with other data-engineering solutions. ### What governance work did Saha perform at Ameri Source Inc? At Ameri Source Inc, Saha implemented governance frameworks across Databricks, AWS S3, and Redshift, with documentation for audit and data-lineage tracking. Saha managed Unity Catalog to enforce organizational and regulatory governance policies, including GDPR and HIPAA requirements, and achieved 100% regulatory audit readiness. ### What did Saha accomplish at Amazon? At Amazon, Saha designed and optimized an ETL pipeline using AWS S3, HDFS, and PySpark to integrate and process more than 10,000 daily transactions from e-commerce-platform and MySQL databases. The work reduced processing time by 60% and enabled near-real-time inventory and sales insights. ### What analytics and data-quality work did Saha perform at Amazon? At Amazon, Saha used PySpark for real-time ingestion from order-management and inventory systems, supporting timely analysis of sales performance, customer transactions, and stock levels. Saha optimized SQL queries for Power BI and Tableau dashboards, improving sales-tracking and inventory-forecasting accuracy by 35%, and built error-handling and validation frameworks that increased data accuracy to 99.9% and reduced processing failures by 40%. ### What is Blueprint, where Saha is currently a Senior Data Engineer? Blueprint is a technology solutions firm headquartered in the greater Seattle area, with employees across the United States and Europe. The firm focuses on customer experience and intelligent supply chain across manufacturing, retail, financial services, and health and life sciences, providing technology solutions intended to support digital transformation, digital culture, employee productivity, satisfaction, and revenue. ### What is Saha’s education? Saha holds a Master’s in Business Analytics from Trine University. ### What programming, database, and cloud technologies does Saha use? Saha’s technical toolkit includes SQL, PL/SQL, SQL PL, Dynamic SQL, DDL, SQL Loader, Python, Pandas, Matplotlib, JSON, REST APIs, HTTP, APIs, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Azure SQL, NoSQL, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Redshift, cloud infrastructure, cloud computing, data warehousing, database administration, relational data modeling, schemas, metadata, data standards, database queries, query optimization, and OLTP. ### What additional analytics, monitoring, and professional skills does Saha have? Saha’s broader capabilities include data mapping, data conversion, data analysis, data analytics, exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis, mathematical statistics, quantitative analytics, marketing analytics, data visualization, DAX, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, dashboard creation, Excel dashboards, business metrics, key performance indicators, business requirements, data-driven decision-making, ETL tools, automation, real-time monitoring, cloud monitoring, application performance management, Dynatrace, Dynatrace SaaS, DQL, Grail log analysis, ServiceNow, incident management, system performance, site reliability engineering, monitoring engineering, networking, network switches, network engineering, research, strategy, communication, oral communication, interpersonal skills, reasoning, analytical skills, attention to detail, problem solving, creative problem solving, optimization, database consulting, SaaS, product lifecycle management, B2B, and English. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saha-charan-m-846a9a229