Experience

Data Engineer

Carl Zeiss AG

July 2022 — Present

Leading development of enterprise data products, AI protocols, and cloud infrastructure across 7 business units and 15 countries.

  • Led development of Zeiss Master Data product across 7 Business Units and 15 countries, streamlining data availability and consistency
  • Generated €850,000 in revenue by building an ETL pipeline using Databricks with Unity Catalog, acquiring over 30 customers
  • Saved 60% in data retrieval and integration time by developing the Model Context Protocol (AI-MCP) to standardize AI–data interactions across 15+ products
  • Reduced access management time by 60% by deploying Azure Entra ID authentication across 15+ products
  • Developed business dashboard for Zeiss Global Customer Center showcasing 30+ metrics to global stakeholders and the Zeiss CFO
  • Engineered a reduction of 30+ hours per week by developing 10+ Azure Function Apps, acquiring 115 business customers
  • Reduced resource deployment time by over 40% for 20+ data products using Terraform scripts
  • Led the creation of eVA 3.0 data platform with mesh architecture using Data Products as nodes

Data Analyst

Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory

January 2018 — September 2019

Performed root cause analysis, automated reporting, and optimized distributed database systems for client-facing analytics.

  • Generated $10M in revenue by performing RCA on client claims analytics data, identifying risk and saving 2% of cost
  • Reduced latency by 1.2% for dynamic data loading over a distributed database by fragmenting data across nodes
  • Reduced monthly error rate by up to 80% by implementing VBA-based automation in report generation using Excel Macros
  • Awarded client appreciation award for reducing anomaly reporting time by 91.6% by automating data retrieval, processing, and reporting

Data Analyst

Regiocom Netzdienste

September 2021 — February 2022

Built data processing pipelines and machine learning models for energy demand prediction and optical character recognition.

  • Improved energy demand prediction by 22% by building a data processing pipeline and modeling on 90+ dimensions using PCA
  • Generated interactive visualization graphs for dashboards comparing real-time data and past forecasts using Seaborn and Matplotlib
  • Achieved 96.73% accuracy on handwriting recognition for digital cataloging of manual energy readings using OpenCV and Keras
  • Implemented an RNN-based model using TensorFlow trained on handwriting data samples with and without text separation

Education

MSc. Data and Knowledge Engineering

Otto-Von-Guericke University

October 2019 — July 2022

Research focus on computer vision, generative adversarial networks, and deep learning for image processing and video analysis.

  • Achieved 93.26% accuracy in deepfake video detection using a multimodal approach combining teeth detection and lip–audio synchronization
  • Achieved a Jaccard coefficient of 91.44 and Dice score of 93.27 in unsupervised image registration using a deep model based on VoxelMorph
  • Generated 200+ fingerprints with a 97.83% no-artefact detection rate using StyleGAN and its style transfer property

Bachelor of Engineering

Chandigarh University

August 2014 — May 2018

GPA 8.52 | Top 1% of Graduates. Built a Java application for automated exam question paper generation integrated with a SQL database.

  • Graduated in the top 1% of the batch with a GPA of 8.52
  • Reduced time for exam question paper generation by 40% by building a Java application integrated with a SQL database over the network

Skills

Languages

Python SQL Java

Data & AI

Databricks dbt TensorFlow PyTorch Keras

Cloud & DevOps

Azure Terraform Azure DevOps Git CI/CD