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DATA ENGINEER / GEOSPATIAL SYSTEMS

Nitheesh
Chanambatla.

I build reliable data pipelines across batch, streaming, cloud, and geospatial systems. 4+ years of experience.

EARTH OBSERVATION
From source signals to trusted systems.

DRAG TO INSPECT

THE ENGINEERING BEHIND THE OBSERVATION

One system.
Six responsibilities.

GEOSPATIAL DATA ENGINEERING

From orbit to insight.

Select a stage to trace the engineering.

Trace the lineage

Six engineering responsibilities, one connected system. Select a stage above to explore the verified implementation.

01 / OBSERVESCROLL TO TRACE THE SYSTEM ↓CINEMATIC SCALE + ACCELERATED MOTION

An original observation spacecraft connects source acquisition, validation, transformation, governance, storage and serving. The interactive scene is optional; the evidence remains accessible below.

SELECTED WORK / VERIFIED SYSTEMS

Selected data engineering projects

Three verified projects show distributed processing, dimensional modeling, data-quality controls, and honest system boundaries.

01 / FLAGSHIP

NASA Earth Observation
Event Intelligence Platform

A governed NASA FIRMS platform preserving source truth, deterministic lineage and replay-neutral analytics.

  • Python
  • Kafka
  • Spark
  • Airflow
  • PostgreSQL/PostGIS
  • FastAPI
  • AWS EMR Serverless
View project case study ↗
AWS MANAGED
5,000,000 replay events
MEASURED
8,734.80 events / second
VERIFIED
82 SHA-256 matches
SCIENTIFIC GRAIN
10,000 source detections
LOCAL BOUNDARY
1M complete platform

Explicit limit AWS 10M not executed. Spacecraft, solar activity and acquisition signals are illustrative, not measurements or live mission data.

02 / SUPPORTING

Customer360 Analytics Warehouse

PostgreSQL dimensional warehouse loading 400,000 sales facts across five source domains, with tested SCD Type 2 dimensions, quarantine, and repeat-safe loading.

20 analytical SQL queries · 20 automated tests · hosted CI passed

  • PostgreSQL
  • Dimensional modeling
  • SCD Type 2
  • Quarantine
Pipeline responsibilities
  • Govern — quality quarantine and repeat-safe loading.
  • Store — PostgreSQL dimensional warehouse with tested SCD Type 2 dimensions across five source domains.
View repository ↗

03 / SUPPORTING

RetailSync Data Platform

Deterministic local batch ETL with a separately verified 100,000-order run, transactional SQLite snapshot replacement, and invalid-measure quarantine.

6 local tests passed · hosted CI passed on a 1,000-row fixture

  • SQLite
  • Batch ETL
  • Transactional snapshot
  • Quarantine
Pipeline responsibilities
  • Transform — deterministic local batch ETL.
  • Govern — invalid-measure quarantine.
  • Serve & Measure — transactional SQLite snapshot replacement.
View repository ↗

ENGINEERING IDENTITY

Technical capabilities

Capabilities are presented as working engineering patterns—not a keyword inventory.

  1. 01 / Express

    Programming

    Python, SQL, Java, Scala, Shell, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS.

  2. 02 / Move

    Data platforms

    Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Airflow, Hadoop, HDFS, YARN, Hive, Presto, AWS Glue, Informatica, ETL/ELT, batch and streaming pipelines, and CDC.

  3. 03 / Operate

    AWS data platforms

    AWS EMR Serverless, S3, Glue Data Catalog, Athena, Kinesis, Data Firehose, Lambda, Redshift, IAM, KMS, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.

  4. 04 / Model

    Databases

    PostgreSQL, PostGIS, SQLite, dimensional modeling, star and snowflake schemas, SCD Type 2, partitioning, bucketing, and indexing.

  5. 05 / Locate

    Remote sensing

    NASA FIRMS, satellite-derived active-fire observations, geospatial event processing, EPSG:4326/WGS84, spatial indexing, bounding-box queries, acquisition-time semantics, replay-neutral spatial-temporal aggregation, and lineage/provenance.

  6. 06 / Assure

    Delivery

    Data validation, reconciliation, idempotency, retries, failure recovery, quarantine, CI/CD, Git, Jenkins, Docker, ELK, observability, and root-cause analysis.

  7. 07 / Publish

    Portfolio engineering

    Node.js, Vercel, Supabase, Zod, responsive design, accessibility, and Content Security Policy.

CAREER FOUNDATION

Experience and education

Experience across financial-services and healthcare environments, supported by independently verified portfolio systems.

  1. Data Engineer · Discover (Client Engagement)

    Batch, streaming, AWS data-lake, warehouse, quality, delivery, and operational reliability work.

  2. Data Engineer · Cigna

    Distributed Spark/Hadoop processing, dimensional modeling, CDC, validation, governance, and production support.

Education Master’s in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence · Campbellsville University · December 2024

Certifications AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty · AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer

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