Data & Automation Engineer • Technical Product Owner

Hi, I'm Rishav Kumar

Data & Automation Engineer | Technical Product Owner (iMigrator) • Cognizant

Results-driven Data & Automation Engineer (Programmer Analyst at Cognizant) and technical product owner specializing in high-throughput data validation engines, autonomous CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise automation utilities. Technical Product Owner and Lead Developer of iMigrator scaled across enterprise migration programs—re-engineering core reconciliation pipelines with Polars LazyFrames and DuckDB for up to 3x throughput gains and zero-OOM execution on 50M+ row tables in benchmark runs. Proven leadership integrating GenAI (AWS Bedrock / Anthropic Claude) for automated failure diagnostics, PyInstaller multi-tier self-updaters, and collision-safe Jenkins automation.

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⚡ Cognizant • Automation Team

Rishav Kumar

📍 Kolkata, India

Product Owner • iMigrator Core Platform

LANGUAGES & CORE TECH

Python 3.12 SQL Bash

HIGH-PERFORMANCE ENGINES

Polars LazyFrames DuckDB In-Memory Pandas PyArrow psutil (Dynamic RAM)

AI DEVELOPER TOOLS (IDE & CHAT)

Google Antigravity Claude Code (CLI) GitHub Copilot Agentic Workflows

AI MODELS & SYSTEMS

AWS Bedrock (Claude Sonnet) Google Gemini API Google ADK Prompt Engineering Agentic Workflows

DATA PLATFORMS SUPPORTED (iMIGRATOR)

Microsoft Fabric Snowflake Databricks DynamoDB Oracle PostgreSQL MS SQL Server IBM DB2 & AS400 Sybase MongoDB +17 Heterogeneous Connectors

DEVOPS, PACKAGING & QA

Jenkins CI/CD (Groovy) PyInstaller (3-Tier Hot-Swap) Agile Lifecycle Automation (Rally) Git / GitHub

// TECHNICAL ARSENAL

Core Technical Competencies

Engineered for high-throughput distributed computation, heterogeneous cloud databases, GenAI pipelines, and autonomous test harnesses.

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Programming & Core Tech

Production-grade systems programming, AST parsing, high-concurrency multiprocessing, and Windows OS API automation.

Python 3.12 (OOP & AST) SQL (Complex DDL / DML) Bash / Shell Multiprocessing & Concurrency Windows API Process Handling PyInstaller Packaging

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High-Performance Data Engines

Memory-optimized columnar computation engines replacing traditional memory-bound iterations with zero-OOM processing for 50M+ rows.

Polars LazyFrames DuckDB In-Memory Pandas PyArrow psutil (Dynamic RAM Sizing)

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AI Developer Tools & Workflows

Deep daily integration of frontier AI coding tools, autonomous agents, and conversational intelligence across VS Code and terminal workflows.

Google Antigravity Anthropic Claude Code (CLI) GitHub Copilot Agentic Pair Programming

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Database Connectors & Cloud (17+)

Multi-platform integration adapters developed for iMigrator with native cross-database staging and temporary table joins.

Snowflake Microsoft Fabric Databricks AWS DynamoDB Oracle & Exadata PostgreSQL Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL / MySQL) MS SQL Server (MSSQL) MySQL IBM DB2 & DB2 AS400 Sybase (jConnect & jTDS) MongoDB Amazon Redshift Amazon Athena & AWS S3 IBM Netezza SAP HANA SAS SQLite Cross-DB Staging Tables

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File Formats & Extraction (12+)

High-throughput extraction adapters handling big data serializations, enterprise nested structures, and legacy enterprise formats.

Apache Parquet Apache Avro Nested JSON (Deep Flattening) XML / XSD Excel (OpenPyXL / XlsxWriter) CSV / Delimited DAT Files Flat Files Fixed-Width Formats CLOB / BLOB Extraction SAS7BDAT PDF Extraction CTRL Control Files

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Generative AI & Diagnostics

Autonomous failure clustering and root-cause diagnostics integrating cloud foundational models for automated reconciliation.

AWS Bedrock Anthropic Claude Sonnet Google Gemini API Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) Prompt Engineering Structured JSON Extraction

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CI/CD & Enterprise Packaging

Collision-safe distributed test runners, atomic self-updating desktop distribution, and robust execution telemetry.

Jenkins Parameterized Pipelines Groovy Scripting Pipeline Concurrency PyInstaller (3-Tier Hot-Swap) Windows API Handling Enterprise Network Distribution

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Test Governance & Data Validation

Enterprise QA orchestration, automated defect lifecycle management, DDL schema drift tracking, and Informatica pipelines.

Agile Test Management (Rally) Schema Drift Detection STTM & Data Vault Validation MD5 Keyless Reconciliation Informatica PowerCenter DML Execution Blockers

// CAREER TRAJECTORY

Professional Experience

Proven product ownership, architectural migrations, and production-grade engineering at Cognizant.

Experience at Cognizant

Cognizant Technology Solutions • Full-Time & Internship

Intern → Trainee → Programmer Analyst 03/2025 – Present

Programmer Analyst

Automation Developer • Technical Product Owner & Primary Developer (iMigrator)

★ Promoted Aug 2026 08/2026 – Present

Platform Ownership & Scale: Primary Product Owner and Lead Developer of iMigrator (v6.4 → v6.6/v7), scaling validation and automated reconciliation across diverse enterprise client engagements using generic, reusable architecture.
High-Performance Engine Migration: Re-architected core comparison from Pandas memory-bound execution to Polars LazyFrames and DuckDB in-memory relational engine, delivering up to 3x faster processing and an up to 60% memory reduction in benchmark runs.
Adaptive Memory & Chunk Streaming: Implemented psutil-based dynamic memory allocation (sizing to 70–85% of available RAM) and disk-backed chunk streaming (fetch_to_disk), enabling low-memory systems (8GB/16GB RAM) to process 50M+ records across 50 columns in 10–15 minutes in high-volume benchmark runs with zero out-of-memory errors.
Cross-Database Join & Snowflake Pushdown Engine: Engineered a specialized cross-database reconciliation engine that stages heterogeneous source data into temporary Snowflake tables, executing distributed in-warehouse joins directly on Snowflake compute to eliminate multi-terabyte network data transfer and client-side memory limits.
GenAI Failure Diagnostics (AWS Bedrock & Claude): Architected an autonomous diagnostic module clustering failure patterns, sampling 3 unique records per mismatch pattern, and generating structured JSON containing root-cause classifications, remediated SQL queries, and confidence scores; decoupled architecture ensures zero impact on validation runs if AI is offline.
Heterogeneous Data Connectors (17+ Platforms & 12+ Formats): Engineered high-throughput extraction connectors, query adapters, and cross-database staging modules supporting heterogeneous sources/targets—including Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, DynamoDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2 & DB2 AS400, AWS Athena/Aurora, Amazon Redshift, MongoDB, MS SQL Server, Sybase, and formats like Parquet, Avro, nested JSON, XML, and legacy CTRL files.
Enterprise Packaging & Multi-Tier Self-Updater: Designed a 3-tier zero-downtime updater (Launcher → Updater → Production Runtime) using PyInstaller, Windows API process handling, and enterprise network distribution with rollback protection and zero console flashing.
CI/CD Pipeline Orchestration: Deployed multi-script automation pipelines on Jenkins using parameterized Groovy scripts, dynamic runtime environment fetching, and distributed concurrency locking to prevent collisions across concurrent pipeline runs.
Agile Test Automation (Rally): Built standalone spreadsheet-driven automation for bulk test case/step creation, result uploads, and log deletion, alongside hybrid live streaming of execution verdicts directly into Rally.

Programmer Analyst Trainee

ETL Testing & Data Quality Specialist → Automation Developer

★ Top Performance Rating 08/2025 – 08/2026

Phase 1: ETL Testing (First 7 Months) Phase 2: Automation Developer (Automation Team)

Top Performance Rating & Accelerated Promotion: Conferred top performance rating in 1st-year confirmation appraisal; recognized by leadership for rapid engineering mastery and pivotal architecture contributions to the iMigrator platform, earning accelerated promotion to Programmer Analyst in August 2026.
Automation Team Transition (Subsequent Months): Following the initial 7-month ETL testing phase, transitioned into the Automation Team as an Automation Developer; authored modular Python utilities for automated test case generation, data-stat profiling, defect verification, and foundational reconciliation routines for iMigrator.
Enterprise ETL Testing (First 7 Months): Executed comprehensive end-to-end source-to-target test verification, data quality audits, and migration testing across multi-LOB data warehouse pipelines.
SQL & Reconciliation Verification: Formulated complex SQL reconciliation queries across Snowflake and Oracle targets, validating business transformations, primary key constraints, null bounds, and precision.
Defect Lifecycle Management: Documented and tracked critical ETL pipeline anomalies, schema mismatches, and data drift in CA Agile Central (Rally), collaborating closely with data engineering teams to remediate pipeline bugs prior to production cuts.

Data Engineering Intern

Informatica PowerCenter & ETL Foundations

03/2025 – 07/2025

Healthcare Data Integration Pipeline: Designed and implemented an end-to-end ETL integration system using Informatica PowerCenter to process multi-source healthcare insurance feeds (Group, Subgroup, Subscriber fixed-width and comma-delimited flat files) into dimensional Oracle tables.
Transformations & Data Cleansing: Built robust mapping logic leveraging Expression, Filter, Router, Joiner, and Sequence Generator transformations to standardize formats, eliminate duplicate records, and route error data to dedicated exception tables.
XML Generation & XSD Validation: Engineered a downstream publishing workflow converting transformed subscriber data into structured, personalized XML welcome letters complying with strict XSD schema validation standards.
Workflow Design & Scheduling: Created, configured, and monitored automated workflow sessions in Informatica Workflow Manager, analyzing session logs and performance metrics to optimize throughput.

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Featured Engineering Projects

Core platforms, autonomous assistants, and enterprise distribution systems engineered for high scale.

iMigrator Platform Evolution (v6.4 → v6.6/v7)

Python 3.12 • Polars • DuckDB • Snowflake Pushdown • Multi-DB Connectors (17+ Platforms) • AWS Bedrock • Claude • Jenkins

High-throughput enterprise data reconciliation platform adopted across large-scale migration programs. Re-engineered core pipeline with Polars LazyFrames and DuckDB, delivering up to 3x processing speed and zero-OOM execution on 50M+ row tables in benchmark runs.

• Enterprise Adoption & Extensibility: Scaled platform across large-scale enterprise client engagements, expanding validation coverage to 35+ automated verification rules across 10+ heterogeneous connectors.

• In-Warehouse Pushdown Reconciliation: Staged heterogeneous source data into temporary Snowflake tables, executing distributed joins directly in-warehouse to eliminate multi-terabyte network data transfers.

• Adaptive Memory Allocation: Utilized psutil to evaluate free host RAM at runtime, scaling batch chunks between 70–85% memory capacity with disk-backed chunk streaming (fetch_to_disk).

• Keyless Fallback & Safety: Built automated MD5 hash keyless fallback reconciliation, extraction adapters for MongoDB/DynamoDB document schemas, and automated DML execution blockers to prevent accidental destructive SQL operations.

• GenAI Integration: Decoupled AWS Bedrock / Claude Sonnet diagnostics with pattern clustering, sampling 3 mismatch records per pattern and returning structured JSON root-cause classifications.

DataCraft — Autonomous SQL & Data Engineering Assistant

Python • Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) • Gemini API • Firestore • Snowflake • BigQuery • PostgreSQL • Vertex AI

Autonomous multi-modal data engineering agent built with the Google ADK during Google's 4-Hour "Build with Gemini" hackathon, earning the official Google Developer Badge & Credly Certification.

• Dynamic Schema Catalog: Automated Firestore schema registration cataloging database schemas, primary keys, and data types across heterogeneous sources (list_tables, get_table_details, add_table).

• Anti-Pattern Detection: AST parsing with sqlparse to detect full table scans, missing filters, and uncapped sorting with Snowflake, BigQuery, and PostgreSQL optimizations.

• Multi-Modal Architecture Generation: Produced visual ER diagrams and animated Kafka event-streaming architecture diagrams leveraging Gemini multimodal models on Vertex AI with GCS storage.

• Vertex AI Memory Bank: Integrated PreloadMemoryTool for session-level dialect persistence, paired with AgentEngineSandboxCodeExecutor and a responsive FastAPI/A2UI card interface.

Enterprise Packaging & Multi-Tier Self-Updater

Python • PyInstaller • Windows OS Architecture • SQLite • Enterprise Network Distribution

Architected a zero-downtime, atomic client updater (Launcher → Updater → Production Runtime) distributing updates across enterprise client installations with delta synchronization.

• Atomic Hot-Swap: Decoupled process execution so the updater replaces running binaries without file-lock collisions, backed by rollback protection.

• Zero Console Flashing: Leveraged Windows API process handling to provide silent execution with clean SQLite telemetry logging and network distribution.

• CLI Maintenance Utility: Authored automated CLI diagnostics and repair utilities for rapid environment health checks and client distribution audits.

Healthcare Payer Data Integration Pipeline

Informatica PowerCenter • Oracle SQL • XML / XSD • Flat File Processing

Production ETL integration pipeline processing fixed-width and comma-delimited healthcare feeds into dimensional Oracle tables with automated XML welcome letter distribution.

• Multi-Feed Processing: Cleaned, validated, and normalized multi-tier patient datasets across complex business transformations.

• Schema Compliance: Validated outgoing XML welcome records against strict enterprise XSD schema definitions.