Gokul

Engineering Portfolio

About Me

Software & Data Engineer building scalable data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and backend systems. Skilled in Python, SQL, AWS, GCP, Snowflake, and modern data tools. Previously delivered ETL automation, REST APIs, and analytics solutions for SaaS, civic tech, and digital advertising. Seeking Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or Cloud Engineering roles.

Work Experience

ChiEAC – Software and Data Engineer

Jun 2025 – Present Chicago, IL (Remote)

Cleaned & transformed library, transit, and student wellness survey data in Python + SQL on Snowflake, automated prep in Airflow, reducing weekly manual prep from 6 hrs → under 2 hrs.
Integrated open civic datasets on GCP BigQuery with Snowflake pipelines, enabling cross-platform analysis for transit & survey reporting.
Standardized 12 KPIs in Snowflake and built an executive Tableau scorecard, reducing ad-hoc metric clarification requests from 15/week → 5/week.

ISQL Global – Cloud Engineer

Oct 2022 – Jul 2023 Remote

Delivered near-real-time CRM dashboards for 10K+ users by streamlining SQL/Python pipelines into Tableau.
Rebuilt REST APIs, reducing backend calls by 30% and cutting account provisioning time from 10 min → 7 min.
Optimized Redshift queries by restructuring joins and filtering early → dashboard load time reduced 45 s → 30 s and compute spend cut by 15%.
Built cost & capacity forecasts in SQL/Python to guide AWS auto-scaling, lowering over-provisioned instances by 10% and reducing monthly cloud costs.

Out In Dreams – Software Data Engineer (Product & Ads Analytics)

Sep 2021 – Oct 2022 Remote

Modeled creator & campaign data in Snowflake, built Power BI ROI dashboards, reducing campaign reporting turnaround from 5 days → 3 days.
Automated payout validation with SQL, eliminating manual checks → saved 20 hrs/week for finance and reduced payout errors.
Ingested Google Ads BigQuery exports into Snowflake, giving marketing a unified spend & ROI view across ad platforms.
Analyzed $23K/month ad spend; reallocated 25% of budget to top-performing creators → freed $3.4K/quarter and improved ROI.
Partnered with product, marketing, and analytics to define KPIs, codify logic, and roadmap based on engagement trends.

Portfolio Projects

EV Charger Uptime & Coverage Pulse (U.S.)

End-to-end data pipeline analyzing EV charger reliability and coverage across the U.S. using BigQuery and Tableau.

Python BigQuery Tableau GCP

Yoga Posture Classification using Deep Learning

End-to-end deep learning project classifying yoga poses using CNN architectures (VGG16, VGG19, MobileNet).

Python TensorFlow CNN Deep Learning

Analysis of Pre and Post COVID-19 Pandemic Layoffs

End-to-end data & machine learning analysis investigating layoffs before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic (2019–2023).

Python XGBoost Data Analysis ML

GPU Cluster Telemetry Lakehouse

End-to-end GPU cluster telemetry ingestion, processing, and analytics pipeline using AWS, dbt, Airflow, DuckDB, and ML for anomaly detection.

Python AWS dbt Airflow DuckDB

Education & Certifications

MS in IT and Management

Aug 2023 - May 2025

Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, USA

Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering

Apr 2020 - May 2023

SREC

Coimbatore, India

Certifications

Academy Accreditation – Databricks Fundamentals

Databricks

dbt Fundamentals

dbt Labs

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

NVIDIA

Foundations of Project Management

Google

AI For Everyone

DeepLearning.AI