Prajakta Pohare.

Data Engineer · 5+ years building production pipelines & BI platforms

GitHub @ppohare26

Data Engineer with 5+ years designing and operating production data pipelines, BI platforms, and automation workflows across enterprise environments. Background spans engineering, project management, and analytics — delivers measurable business impact at SLA scale.

Experience

Data Engineer III

Caterpillar Inc. · Mossville, IL Contract

  • Build and orchestrate end-to-end data pipelines powering analytics across Construction Industries (CI) segments, serving decision-makers organization-wide.
  • Translate stakeholder requirements into digital data products with analysts, data scientists, and business owners; deliver intuitive Power BI reporting layered on transformed warehouse data.
  • Own release-aligned database changes and run pre-production validation checks, ensuring data integrity across every deployment cycle.
  • Automate recurring manual processes to reduce technical debt and improve system reliability across the analytics stack.
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Data Analyst

Illinois State University · Normal, IL Part-time

  • Redesigned the VanillaSoft CRM interface, cutting new-hire onboarding time and standardizing daily workflows for the team.
  • Automated repetitive operational tasks via Excel macros and Python scripts, reducing manual effort by 40%.
  • Performed data cleaning and quality control across large datasets, improving data accuracy by 35%.
  • Built and maintained Power BI dashboards tracking KPIs, trends, and performance gaps to drive data-informed decisions.
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Application Development Analyst

Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd. · Bengaluru, India

  • Delivered user stories as part of an Agile delivery pod, consistently meeting client expectations across the project lifecycle.
  • Refactored and upgraded application logic to maintain 95% SLA compliance across releases.
  • Drove a 40% reduction in development cycle time by streamlining build and review workflows.
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Skills
Languages Python · SQL · R · Java · C# / .NET
Data & Pipelines PySpark · Pandas · MS SQL Server · ETL / ELT · Data Wrangling · Data Quality
BI & Visualization Power BI · Tableau · Minitab
Tools & Methods Git · Jira · Agile · Six Sigma · AnyLogic
Education

M.S. — Technology Project Management

Illinois State University

Thesis: Enhancing Data Wrangling Efficiency Using AI.

Graduate Cert. — Business Information Systems

Illinois State University

Graduate Cert. — Quality Management & Analysis

Illinois State University

B.E. — Electronics & Telecommunication Eng.

G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, India

Selected Projects

Interactive Data Analysis Dashboard

Self-service tool that ingests any CSV, auto-cleans, and generates configurable visualizations. · GitHub

Customer Churn & Retention Insights

Full-cycle exploratory analysis surfacing churn drivers with actionable retention recommendations. · GitHub

Data Cleaning & Visualization Pipeline

End-to-end data prep on an education / employment dataset with exploratory visualization. · GitHub

Student Performance Tracking

SQL schema consolidating grades, attendance, and extracurricular data to flag at-risk students. · GitHub

Customer Behavior & Predictive Analysis

Wrangled Kaggle customer-behavior data in R and built predictive models to forecast customer segments. · GitHub

Publications
Cutting Edge Network Technology: Creating Li-Fi and Wi-Fi Hybrid SITE 2024 · AACE · pp. 1066–1071 · Las Vegas, NV · 2024 · learntechlib.org/primary/p/224091