Athira Kumar

Senior Data Engineer at Saffron Works · Data pipelines

Saffron Works

Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

6+ years experience

Christ University

English, Hindi, Marathi

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Overview

Senior Data Engineer at Saffron Works, focused on data pipelines. Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 16 a week to 4. Before that: KPMG and Uber. Most at home with SQL and Kafka. Kannada theatre fan.

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dbtIcebergSQLKafkaPythonSnowflake

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

closes in 3 months

Need a technical co-founder: loyalty programmes in the Nordics

The idea: Loyalty programmes in the Nordics
Stage: Prototype
I bring: 13 years in product analytics
Looking for: Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment: Part-time to start
Location: Pune or remote

I bring 6 years of data pipelines (currently Saffron Works). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Full-time from day one.

Pune, India · remote OKicebergpythondbt

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Experience

Senior Data Engineer
Jul 2025 - Present
Saffron Works · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
- Replaced 118 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Taught SQL to 177 non-analysts.
Data Engineer
Aug 2023 - Jul 2025
KPMG · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
- Replaced 52 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Data Engineer
Oct 2020 - Aug 2023
Uber · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
- Replaced 67 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Taught SQL to 88 non-analysts.

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Education

Christ University
BBA, Computer Engineering
2015 - 2019

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