Mahima Aakriti Ahuja

Overview

Currently at Drift Bio, where I lead data pipelines with a team of 5. Moved 76% of data platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Tata Motors and PwC. Most at home with Spark and dbt. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Feb 2025 - Present
   Drift Bio · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Shipped 30 launches on the data platform team without a rollback.
   • Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 34 a week to 4.
   • Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 21% in two quarters.
2. Data Engineer

   Nov 2022 - Feb 2025
   Tata Motors · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
   • Reduced stock-outs by 35% in the first season.
3. Senior Data Engineer

   Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
   PwC · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Reduced stock-outs by 16% in the first season.
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
4. Engineering Manager

   Apr 2017 - Sep 2019
   SAP · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
   • Wrote the Airflow service that now handles 20 million requests a day.
5. Engineering Manager

   Dec 2013 - Apr 2017
   Swiggy · 3 yr 4 mo · Contract · Noida, India
   • Shipped 28 launches on the data platform team without a rollback.
   • Built the experimentation framework 29 product teams use to ship changes safely.

Projects

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Education

1. St. Xavier's College, Mumbai

   B.A., Electrical Engineering
   2003 - 2007