Viral Patel

Senior Data Engineer at Lakemont Group · Data pipelines · Iceberg, Kafka

Lakemont Group

Indore, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

6+ years experience

IIT Kharagpur

English, Hindi

Collaborating Open to work

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Overview

Based in Indore. I work on data pipelines at Lakemont Group. Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 36% in two quarters. Most at home with Kafka and Airflow. Learning to sail.

Good reasons to reach out

Roles in product analytics
Collaborators for my side project
Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Second opinions on Snowflake decisions
Speaking or podcast invitations

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Skills

dbtPythonIcebergKafkaSnowflakeSQLAirflow

CollaboratingLooking to collaborate

closes in 3 months

Co-writing an essay series about data pipelines - looking for a co-author

Project: An essay series about data pipelines - looking for a co-author
Skills needed: SQL, Writing
Time commitment: Part-time
Outcome: Small product with real users

No money involved, just a good project. Async-first.

Indore, Indiasqlpythoniceberg

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Open to workLooking for a role

closes in 3 months

Staff Data Engineer roles in payments - Indore or remote

Target roles: Staff Data Engineer
Level: Staff / Principal
Industries: B2B SaaS, Consumer apps
Work mode: Remote
Available: From next quarter
Work authorization: Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for: Early-stage company (Series A) where product analytics is core to the product.
Not interested in: Night shifts

6 years in data pipelines. Strongest at Snowflake and SQL. Can start in about six weeks.

Indore, India · remote OKpythonairflowsql

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Experience

Senior Data Engineer
Dec 2025 - Present
Lakemont Group · 10 mo · Contract · Indore, India
- Replaced 47 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Built the product analytics models now used in 10 product decisions a quarter.
- Taught SQL to 148 non-analysts.
Data Engineer
Dec 2023 - Dec 2025
KPMG · 2 yr · Full-time · Indore, India
- Replaced 35 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Data Engineer
Sep 2021 - Dec 2023
Airtel · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Indore, India
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Data Engineer
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Mphasis · 11 mo · Full-time · Indore, India
- Replaced 97 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Taught SQL to 93 non-analysts.

Projects

Side project: a reading list app

2026

Built with Iceberg and Kafka. 1286 people used it last year.

Conference talk: lessons from product analytics

2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling product analytics.

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Education

IIT Kharagpur
B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
2016 - 2020

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