Lakshmi Isha Desai

Senior Data Engineer at Swvl · Data pipelines · Snowflake, Kafka

Swvl

Dubai, UAE · GST (UTC+4)

8+ years experience

Cairo University

English, Arabic

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Overview

Senior Data Engineer at Swvl, focused on data pipelines. Grew the data platform team from 3 to 26 engineers. Wrote the Snowflake service that now handles 2 million requests a day. Most at home with Iceberg and dbt.

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Skills

IcebergAirflowdbtKafkaSnowflake

Experience

Senior Data Engineer
Feb 2023 - Present
Swvl · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
- Built the product analytics models now used in 10 product decisions a quarter.
- Replaced 60 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Data Engineer
Sep 2019 - Feb 2023
Qatar Airways · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
- Replaced 67 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Data Engineer
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Majid Al Futtaim · 11 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
- Taught SQL to 93 non-analysts.

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Education

Cairo University
BSc, Information Technology
2014 - 2018

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