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DATA ENGINEER · FREIBURG, GERMANY

Rakshan
Bhandary.

Complex data. Clear possibilities.

I build reliable data pipelines and automate complex workflows. From India to Germany, curiosity has always been the connecting thread.

MY TOOLKIT

The skills behind the systems.

Currently learning dbtSnowflake

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Built for the real world.
01 / ACCENTURE
2020–2023

From batch to streaming.

Worked across legacy ETL systems and a new Azure streaming platform, from proof of concept to production. Helped reduce processing latency from 20–30 minutes to about 10 seconds.

~10 secondsprocessing latency
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Data Engineer / Software Engineer
India · October 2020 – September 2023

Modern Azure data platform

  • Designed and developed PySpark streaming pipelines to ingest, transform, and standardize JSON data from multiple sources using Azure Event Hub, Kafka, and ADLS Gen2.
  • Helped design a hybrid architecture combining near-real-time streaming with batch retries for failed events, reducing end-to-end latency from 20–30 minutes to about 10 seconds.
  • Contributed to a team-designed standardized JSON schema, allowing different data sources to flow through a shared pipeline.
  • Implemented configuration-driven Spark SQL transformations so queries and business logic could change without code deployments.
  • Enriched streaming order events with PostgreSQL customer master data, delivering complete records downstream.
  • Led the integration of independently developed pipeline modules into one end-to-end system, coordinating code changes across teams.
  • Orchestrated batch and streaming workloads with Azure Data Factory, including scheduling, dependencies, and automated triggers.

Legacy ETL & production support

  • Maintained Informatica PowerCenter ETL workflows and Oracle batch systems for commission calculations, running on roughly 30-minute cycles.
  • Developed Unix shell scripts to validate incoming files, verify checksums, and check date integrity before ingestion.
  • Extended existing workflows to onboard new sources, adding field-level transformations and loading logic for new files and tables.
  • Troubleshot production pipeline failures and coordinated their resolution with the operations team.

PySpark · Spark SQL · Azure Event Hub · Kafka · ADLS Gen2 · Azure Data Factory · PostgreSQL · Informatica · Oracle · Unix

02 / SENSOPART
2024–2026

Less repetition.
More automation.

Designed and built an automated software compliance platform, reducing recurring work from two weeks to a few days per release.

Weeks → daysrecurring compliance effort
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Data Engineer · Working Student
Germany · March 2024 – June 2026

Platform ownership & automation

  • Sole architect and engineer of an automated open-source compliance and Cyber Resilience Act platform, from initial design through production deployment.
  • Replaced manual, UI-based license scanning with an end-to-end FOSSology pipeline, cutting recurring compliance effort from about two weeks to a few days per release.
  • Split 2–3 GB release codebases into 10–15 components and reused previously scanned, curated results to avoid redundant scans across releases.

Data, reporting & internal tools

  • Built a PostgreSQL single source of truth for curated license and copyright data, generating SPDX, Excel, plain-text, and client-specific reports from one dataset.
  • Created a Streamlit application for colleagues to review and edit data through a browser, with role-based permissions and restricted operations for each access level.
  • Built ingestion pipelines for CVE vulnerability data from the NVD API and Yocto build manifests, combining the sources for vulnerability coverage and automated SBOM generation.
  • Integrated scans and report generation into GitLab CI/CD with the DevOps team, triggering the pipeline on production releases.

Python · PostgreSQL · FOSSology · Streamlit · NVD API · Yocto · SPDX / SBOM · GitLab CI/CD

EDUCATION

Engineering, from systems to data.
MASTER’SIn progress

M.Sc. Embedded Systems Engineering

University of Freiburg

Germany · October 2023 – Present

GPA 1.8 German scale

Master’s timeline
In progress
Oct 2023In progress
BACHELOR’S2016–2020

B.E. Electronics and Communication Engineering

NMAM Institute of Technology

India

CGPA 9.01 / 10