About

Nirod Baran is a certified AWS Solution Architect and Data Engineer with over 8 years of experience in the data warehouse domain. He has a strong understanding of Retail, Promotional Advertising, and Media Advertising domains and has worked on full-time projects based on Agile/Scrum models as an individual contributor and team lead. Nirod has extensive experience in dimensional data modeling (Snowflake/Star Schema) and implementation of DWH on RDB and Cloud-based MPP databases like Redshift and Snowflake. Nirod is a quick learner, team player, and keen to explore new ways for any given tasks. He has good experience in Python-based ETL frameworks and scripting for various automation and API extraction processes. He has written complex SQL codes using window functions, joins, CTEs, and tuning the scripts for performance improvements. He has also performed POCs on various Serverless ELT pipeline using AWS and Snowflake services. Nirod is currently working as a Data Engineer III at Thermo Fisher Scientific. In his previous role as an Assistant Manager - Data Engineering at Meredith, he was responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the advertising data of Meredith Corporation. He led the team, managed the deliverables, and maintained and monitored the infrastructures as well. Nirod has also worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Meredith. Nirod holds a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela. He has also completed his High School Certificate from Sri Aurobindo Institute of Integral Education and his CBSE from Mother's Public School. Nirod's tech stack includes Data Engineering, AWS, Snowflake, Data Warehouse, Python, SQL, Spark, ETL, Senior Software Engineer, Infra, and Software Engineer. He has relevant experience of 9.86 years.