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Phani YadlaPY

Phani Yadla

Senior Data Engineer

€680/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Phani

Senior Data Engineer | Python . GCP · AWS . Snowflake · DBT · Airflow | Paris

You need reliable, scalable data infrastructure — pipelines that actually work in production, costs that don't spiral and teams that stay autonomous. That's exactly what I deliver.

With 8+ years of experience across scale-ups and global tech companies (TheFork/TripAdvisor, Brevo, Aircall, IBM), I help organisations build and modernise their data platforms — from ingestion to transformation, observability, and self-service enablement.

What I bring to the table:

End-to-end pipeline engineering — ETL/ELT batch and streaming pipelines processing 500+ GB/day, built with Airflow, Spark, Kafka, and cloud-native tools (GCP, AWS, Snowflake)

Modern data stack expertise — dbt, Airbyte, Meltano, Sifflet; I've migrated legacy SQL transformation jobs to dbt and onboarded partner teams to full autonomy

Cost & performance optimisation — achieved 35% Snowflake cost reduction at TheFork; reduced pipeline build time and S3 storage costs through targeted architectural improvements

DataOps & infrastructure — Terraform (HashiCorp Certified), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD; I build data platforms that are maintainable, observable, and production-grade

Data observability — integrated Sifflet and data quality checks into live pipelines to enforce data trust at scale.

Typical missions I handle:

Data platform modernisation & cloud migration (AWS ↔ GCP)

Data mesh / self-service platform implementation

DBT project setup and team onboarding

Snowflake / BigQuery architecture & cost optimisation

Streaming architecture with real-time pipelines

Data lakehouse POCs (Apache Iceberg)

Based in Paris, available for remote or on-site freelance missions.
Fluent in English, advanced French
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • TheFork (Tripadvisor group)
    Senior Data Engineer
    July 2023 - March 2026 (2 years and 8 months)
    Paris, France
    [Tech stack : Python, Snowflake, AWS, Airflow, DBT, Power BI, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Sifflet]
    • • Developed ETL, reverse ETL pipelines to integrate new data sources, destinations.
    • • Enhanced the data mesh implementation and improved the autonomy of partner teams.
    • • Optimized data pipelines and reduced the data processing time and costs.
    • • Designed algorithm to check for cycles between multiple airflow DAGs in the project, which is a part of CI checks now and prevents Airflow issues on production.
    • • Migrated manual SQL(Jinja) transformation jobs to DBT project. Integrated partner teams on to DBT project to make them more autonomous on their requirements.
    • • Improved S3 storage archival process and optimized costs.
    • • Integrated Sifflet into our ecosystem for data observability and integrated data quality checks as part of our data pipelines via airflow
    • • Optimized Snowflake costs using Bluesky, leading to 35 % cost reduction annually.
    • • Collaborated on POC of data lakehouse architecture with Apache Iceberg
    • • Integrated Airbyte into our tech stack to optimize data pipelines build, cost and autonomy of stakeholders, which enhances our self-service data platform ideology
    ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Processes Python Apache Airflow DBT Snowflake
  • BREVO (ex – SENDINBLUE)
    Data Engineer
    May 2021 - July 2023 (2 years and 2 months)
    Paris, France
    [Tech stack : Python, Bigquery, GCP, Airflow, DBT, Power BI, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Terraform, Datadog]

    • • Lead the cloud migration of pipelines from AWS to GCP. Revamped legacy pipelines to put in place ELT architecture
    • • Deployed modern data stack tools like DBT, Airflow, Meltano, etc. into our architecture and built data pipelines using them along with tools from GCP.
    • • Implemented Best practices in DBT, Airflow tools and in Bigquery for optimized and cost efficient Datawarehouse.
    • • Implemented 'Infrastructure as code' using Terraform to manage cloud resources efficiently.
    • • Mentored and guided team members and other teams in the company to implement their use cases with DBT and to take autonomy in building analytics dashboards
    • • Built both batch and streaming data pipelines utilizing tools Dataflow, pub/sub, Airflow and cloud functions to handle processing of more than 500 GB of data every day.
    • • Worked with Data Scientists to develop and implement machine learning based use cases.
    • • Developed CI CD pipelines for our GitHub code repositories to be autonomous in code validations and deploying our code in a clean and efficient way.
    Google cloud DBT Terraform Apache Airflow Python
  • AIRCALL
    Data Engineer
    October 2020 - April 2021 (6 months)
    Paris, France
    [Tech stack : Python, AWS, Airflow, DBT, Docker, Terraform, Rollbar]

    • • Orchestrated data pipelines using airflow
    • • Built, optimized DBT models and made improvements on data modelling in Redshift
    • • Configured Rollbartool for better management of errors in data pipelines. It enabled our team to actively track and resolve each error
    • • Optimized layering of docker containers of applications to improve caching and reduced build time on each deployment on AWS ECS.

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Education

  • Applied MSc
    DSTI
    2021
    Applied MSc
  • Bachelor of Technology
    SASTRA University
    2016
    Bachelor of Technology

Certifications

  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
    HashiCorp
    2021
    Terraform

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