Hello, I'm

Ashna T

Data Engineer

About Me

Data Engineer at UST with hands-on experience in Azure and AWS data engineering stacks, end-to-end ETL pipeline development, PySpark, Spark SQL, and GenAI integration. Backed by 1.5+ years of full-stack software development experience building scalable, production-grade applications.

Technical Skills

Data Engineering

PySparkSpark SQLAzure Data FactoryAzure DatabricksAWS GlueApache AirflowETL PipelinesData ModellingMaterialized Views

Cloud & Storage

Azure Cosmos DBAzure SQL DatabaseAzure Data LakeAWS S3RedshiftRDSLambdaECSIAM

SQL

Window FunctionsCTEsSubqueriesIndexingPartitioningQuery Optimization

Python & AI

PySpark DataFramesUDFsLLM APIsPrompt EngineeringRAGLangChain

Full-Stack

JavaScriptNode.jsReact.jsFastAPIREST APIs

Tools

GitGitHubPower BIJenkins CI/CDFigma

Professional Experience

Apr 2025 – Present

Data Engineer

UST

  • Built end-to-end Swiggy analytics pipeline: Azure Data Factory → Cosmos DB → Databricks (PySpark) → Azure SQL (Materialized Views) → Power BI.
  • Designed ETL workflows ingesting multi-format data (CSV, JSON, API); handled data cleaning, schema modelling, and enrichment across restaurant, menu, cuisine, and cost entities.
  • Implemented AWS data engineering workflows using Glue (Crawlers, PySpark jobs), Airflow DAGs, and Lambda-S3 event-driven pipelines.
  • Developed LLM-powered Python applications with prompt engineering, RAG, and LangChain for AI-assisted data workflows.
  • Applied advanced SQL — window functions, CTEs, partitioning, query optimization — across Azure SQL and Redshift.
June 2024 – Mar 2025

Software Developer

Curate Health Technologies

  • Built wellness AI agent with task automation and personalized chat; maintained Node.js/FastAPI backend with Jenkins CI/CD on AWS at 99.9% uptime.
  • Developed company web app from scratch (replacing Webflow), reducing costs; migrated admin panel from Appsmith to React.
  • Delivered feature releases driving 100% user growth.

Education

Nov 2021 - Mar 2025

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University - KMEA Engineering College

Project Experience

Swiggy Restaurant Analytics

Azure data pipeline (Capstone): architected full cloud data pipeline; modelled dataset into relational entities; wrote Spark SQL for top-rated restaurant detection, rating anomalies, and cross-city cuisine analysis.

EpiPredict

Healthcare pandemic prediction platform using Random Forest ML, FastAPI, Flutter, and Node.js.

GitHub

Artificium

AI text generation app using React.js and Gemini AI API with prompt engineering techniques.

GitHub

Leadership & Mentoring

Web Developer Mentor

Kottukal Women’s Polytechnic College

Trained students in full-stack web development, responsive design, and software architecture optimization.

Hackathon Mentor

St Joseph College TVM

Led Yukthi Hackathon mentoring participants in web development fundamentals, Git workflows, and technical problem-solving.

Lead Mentor

KMEA Engineering College

Spearheaded "After-Hours Coding" program for MERN stack development training and competitive programming.

Certifications

Get in Touch

aashnaspeaks@gmail.com

ashna.t@ust.com

+91 8606542678