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Srilekha Jakkula - Senior Data Engineer in Chicago, IL

Srilekha Jakkula

Senior Data Engineer specializing in scalable data pipelines and API-driven data services

Northern TrustNorthern Illinois UniversityChicago, IL5 Years ExperienceSenior LevelWorks Remote

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Data engineer focused on building scalable, reliable end-to-end data pipelines and backend REST data services, spanning API ingestion plus batch/stream processing with Airflow, Kafka, Spark/PySpark, and SQL. Emphasizes strong data quality validation, monitoring/fault tolerance, and performance tuning for large datasets, with experience deploying in cloud environments using containerization and CI/CD.

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Key Strengths

  • Owned end-to-end data pipelines (ingestion → validation → transformation → serving via APIs)
  • Built and operated batch and streaming pipelines (Airflow + Kafka) with monitoring and fault tolerance
  • Implemented multi-stage data quality/validation checks to prevent downstream issues
  • Performance optimization for large-scale data processing (SQL tuning, Spark/PySpark job optimization)
  • Delivered backend REST APIs for reliable, real-time access to processed datasets
  • Handled ambiguous requirements by partnering with stakeholders and making pragmatic batch vs real-time tradeoffs
  • Production debugging and incident response with monitoring and root-cause analysis

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Experience

Senior Data EngineerNorthern Trust · Apr 2024 – Present
Data EngineerMedline Industries, Inc · May 2023 – Mar 2024
Data EngineerHDFC ERGO Health Insurance (Accenture) · Oct 2021 – Dec 2022
Data EngineerLifestyle International · Oct 2020 – Sep 2021

Education

Northern Illinois Universitymaster, Operations Management and Information Systems

Languages

English

Certifications

Google Cloud Professional Data EngineerAWS Data Analytics – SpecialtyMicrosoft Azure Data Fundamentals

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Srilekha JakkulaSenior Data Engineer specializing in scalable data pipelines and API-driven data services