Pooja Tara Bhatt

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Data Engineer at Starbucks · Spark, Iceberg

Starbucks
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
1+ years experience
Boston University
English, German
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Overview

I've spent 1 years on data pipelines, now at Starbucks. Grew the data platform team from 3 to 12 engineers. Cut p99 latency on the data platform services from 882ms to 48ms. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

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Skills
KafkaSnowflakeSparkIceberg

Experience

  1. Data Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Starbucks · 1 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Cut forecast error from 35% to 9% across 748 SKUs.
    • Taught SQL to 116 non-analysts.
    • Reduced stock-outs by 34% in the first season.

Projects

Demand forecasting benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Iceberg and Snowflake on real workloads.

Write-up: demand forecasting in practice
2022

A long-form guide to demand forecasting for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Boston University
    BS, Computer Science
    2021 - 2025

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