{
  "name": "Utkarsh Shukla",
  "role": "Data Engineer",
  "status": "Open to work",
  "contact": {
    "email": "utkshukla30@gmail.com",
    "github": "https://github.com/your-username",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/your-handle"
  },
  "summary": "Data Engineer at Cognizant building SQL-based data validation systems, Python automation and CI/CD-integrated data quality pipelines. Hands-on with PySpark, Databricks, Delta Lake and Medallion Architecture.",
  "experience": [
    {
      "company": "Cognizant Technology Solutions",
      "title": "Programmer Analyst",
      "start": "2025-05",
      "end": null,
      "highlights": [
        "50+ SQL validation scenarios for source-to-target reconciliation across healthcare claims and customer data ETL pipelines",
        "Root-cause analysis of production data defects",
        "REST API validation with Postman (JSON/XML)",
        "Automated data-quality checks in Maven and Jenkins CI/CD"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "Real-Time Food Delivery Event Streaming Platform",
      "date": "2026-05",
      "stack": ["PySpark", "Apache Kafka", "Spark Structured Streaming", "Delta Lake", "Databricks"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Multi-Source Retail Data Reconciliation Engine",
      "date": "2026-04",
      "stack": ["PySpark", "Databricks", "Delta Lake", "SQL", "Dimensional Modeling"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Automated Data Reliability Gateway",
      "date": "2026-01",
      "stack": ["Python", "PySpark", "SQL", "Data Contracts", "Jenkins", "CI/CD"]
    }
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  "education": {
    "school": "KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad",
    "degree": "B.Tech, Computer Science and Information Technology",
    "years": "2021-2025",
    "cgpa": 8.23
  },
  "certifications": [
    "Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate (2026)",
    "Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 (2026)",
    "Amazon Web Services (2026)",
    "Gen AI Fluency, Anthropic Academy (2026)"
  ]
}