Rohit Annasaheb Ragde
Available Now · Data Engineer · Philadelphia / Remote

I make slow queries fast.

And messy pipelines boring — the good kind of boring. A data engineer with one superpower: database internals and performance — proven across six years in financial services, utilities, and telecom, most recently on AML transaction monitoring pipelines at TD Bank.

Python · SQL · PySpark · dbt · Airflow · Snowflake · DuckDB · Azure · AWS

Trusted with production data at TD Bank · Exelon · Audi · Volkswagen · Bank of Ireland

// six years, drawn as a DAG — obviously. click any node · hover to trace the flow

career_pipeline.dag 6 succeeded · 1 queued — your team?
2018 · ORIGIN Oracle SQL · PL/SQL · DBA 2019 · MUMBAI Teradata Audi · VW · BOI · 2.5TB/day 2022 · BET ON MYSELF MS Comp Sci Drexel · Philadelphia 2023 · FORTUNE 100 Exelon 15TB+/day PySpark 2024 · STARTUP Cantonica owned the whole stack 2025 · BANKING TD Bank AML data pipelines 2026 · OPEN your team?
Rohit narrating this chapter
TD Bank
Oct 2025 — Jul 2026 · Philadelphia, PA
Data Engineer — AML Transaction Monitoring & Regulatory Reporting

    featured case study

    Slipstream: Legacy Teradata → Modern Stack

    A production ELT pipeline I originally led at Teradata, rebuilt end-to-end on the modern data stack — same data, same business logic, every line rewritten and re-architected by hand.

    $ slipstream_modern — subscriber voice & data plan ELT
    ingestion complete · dbt layer in progress
    Legacy (2019)
    IngestTeradata TPT scripts ×6
    TransformBTEQ stored procedures
    OrchestrateShell scripts + cron
    TestManual Excel test cases
    LogsPlain text files
    →
    Modern (2026)
    IngestPython + DuckDB + Parquet
    Transformdbt staging & mart models
    OrchestrateApache Airflow DAGs
    Testpytest + dbt schema tests
    LogsStructured JSON logging
    10
    CSV sources ingested
    6
    DuckDB staging tables
    100%
    Row-count reconciliation
    5
    Bugs found, fixed & documented

    Why this project: most portfolio pipelines run happy-path demos on toy data. This one migrates a real production system I built and operated — including the unglamorous parts: idempotent re-runs, file archiving, Windows path resolution, silent validation failures, and column-name mismatches that only surface on real files. Every bug is documented with its root cause and fix. Ingestion layer is complete and verified; the dbt transformation layer (replacing the original StgToTrn stored procedure) is the current milestone.

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    The Masterclass — not a project, a discipline
    SQL Performance Tuning Playbook

    "I make slow queries fast," written down so it's teachable — reading execution plans, indexing and partitioning strategy, join restructuring, and the tuning workflow refined in production across Teradata, Oracle, Snowflake, and SQL Server.

    Read the Playbook ↗

    Uber ETL Automation — Airflow + Mage

    Automated ETL over Uber trip data — ingestion, dimensional transformation, and analytics-ready loading, orchestrated end to end with Airflow and Mage. Demonstrates the orchestration patterns (DAG design, task dependencies, scheduling) that production pipelines live on.

    AirflowMagePythonETL

    Azure Olympic Data Engineering Pipeline

    End-to-end Azure data pipeline over Olympic datasets — cloud ingestion, Spark transformations on Databricks, and an analytics serving layer. A compact demonstration of the same Azure patterns used at Exelon on 15TB+/day production workloads.

    AzureDatabricksSparkData Factory

    Real-Time Financial Data Streaming Pipeline

    Real-time transaction streaming in active development: Kafka producers → AWS-hosted brokers → Snowpipe continuous ingestion → Snowflake Streams & Tasks for incremental transformation — with a Claude API multi-agent layer for automated orchestration. The next flagship alongside Slipstream.

    KafkaSnowpipeSnowflakeClaude API
    work history

    Experience

    Oct 2025 — Jul 2026
    Philadelphia, PA · Financial Services
    TD Bank via Protiviti
    Data Engineer — AML Transaction Monitoring & Regulatory Reporting
    • Architected SQL pipelines integrating 15+ source systems powering AML transaction monitoring, regulatory reporting, and financial crime analytics
    • Led analytics infrastructure migration to AWS — S3 data lake architecture, RDS, PySpark transformations, Airflow orchestration
    • Engineered 30+ automated data quality validation frameworks — reducing data incidents by 40% and ensuring SOX compliance
    • Automated reconciliation workflows saving 40+ hours/month via Python, Bash, and GitHub Actions CI/CD
    • Designed Power BI and Tableau dashboards tracking 20+ financial KPIs and AML metrics for compliance leadership
    Sep 2024 — Sep 2025
    Philadelphia, PA · Tech Startup
    Cantonica
    Data Engineer — Data Platform & Analytics
    • Built end-to-end pipelines with Snowflake and dbt — dimensional models reducing data prep time by 30%
    • Optimized SQL queries and schema design, improving processing performance by 25%
    • Integrated pipelines with Django backend via REST APIs and MongoDB for real-time product features
    Jun 2023 — Dec 2023
    Wilmington, DE · Utilities
    Exelon
    Data Engineer — Advanced Data Analytics
    • Built PySpark pipelines on Azure Databricks processing 15+ TB daily with 95% SLA reliability
    • Reduced pipeline execution time by 30% through bottleneck identification and optimization
    • Engineered Azure Data Factory workflows reducing data latency by 45% in on-prem to cloud migration
    Sep 2019 — Aug 2022
    Mumbai, India · Enterprise Consulting
    Teradata
    Data Engineer · Audi · Bank of Ireland · Volkswagen
    • Led SLIPSTREAM — automated ELT pipeline processing 10M+ telecom subscriber records daily, improving revenue forecasting accuracy by 25%
    • Architected 10+ enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines on Teradata Vantage, Talend, and SQL Server — 2.5TB daily at 95% reliability
    • Optimized 100+ complex SQL queries, transforming response times from minutes to seconds
    • Built 40+ Python/Bash automation scripts reducing mean time to resolution from hours to minutes
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    Certifications

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    Technical Skills

    Languages
    PythonSQL · T-SQLOracle PL/SQLBash / Shell
    Processing
    PySpark / SparkKafka · StreamingDelta Lake · DuckDB
    Cloud
    Azure Databricks · ADFAWS S3 · GlueSnowflake
    Orchestration
    Apache AirflowdbtGitHub Actions · Docker
    Data Quality
    dbt tests · pytestGreat ExpectationsSOX · Regulatory
    Databases
    Oracle (DBA · PL/SQL)Teradata · SQL ServerPostgreSQL · MongoDB
    GenAI
    Claude APIAgentic pipelinesLLM enrichment
    Visualization
    Power BI · Tableaudbt DocsExcel (advanced)
    contact

    The next node
    is open.

    Open to Data Engineer and Analytics Engineer roles — full-time, contract, W2 or C2C. Philadelphia, New York, remote, or relocation.

    rohit.ragde.de@gmail.com →