Kaushal K.

Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer with 13+ years of experience delivering enterprise-grade data platforms for clients across the US, UK, and Europe. I help organizations retire legacy systems, modernize their data infrastructure on Azure, and build reliable, governed pipelines that feed clean data into analytics and BI. What I Deliver Production-ready ETL/ELT pipelines in Azure Data Factory — parameterized, metadata-driven, and built for scale. Complex data migration and transformation using SSIS with scheduled orchestration. Snowflake data ingestion leveraging Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Time Travel, and Zero Copy Cloning. Full legacy-to-cloud migration from Oracle, MS Access, and SQL Server (2005/2008) to Azure IaaS and PaaS. Enterprise data warehousing on Azure Synapse and Azure SQL with built-in performance tuning. Reporting layers using SSRS and Power BI on well-modeled, analytics-ready data. Technologies I Work With Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Synapse Analytics, ADLS Gen2, Delta Lake, Databricks (PySpark), Snowflake (SnowSQL, Snowpipe), SSIS, SSRS, Power BI, SQL Server (2012/2014/2019), PostgreSQL, T-SQL, Self-Hosted Integration Runtime, Azure Key Vault, Azure VMs Results I've Delivered Designed a secure ADF-to-Snowflake ingestion pipeline for a UK motoring services client operating under FCA compliance, using SHIR in IP-restricted environments. Migrated over 500 tables spanning 10 years of historical data from on-premises Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server into Azure Synapse. Modernized a legacy stack comprising Oracle, MS Access, and SQL Server 2005 for a major US chemical company — including schema conversion via SSMA, SSIS-based data transfer, TDE encryption, and replication setup. Reduced pipeline runtimes and resolved slow-running queries through parallel loading, partitioning, and targeted indexing. Certifications Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate. Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals. Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals. How I Work Clear communication, Agile delivery, and full ownership from requirements through deployment. I ask the right questions upfront to eliminate surprises down the line. Equally comfortable leading independently or integrating into an existing team.