Aniket Soni — Product Manager

I’m Aniket Soni, a Senior Associate Developer / Data Engineer with a passion for building scalable data solutions that drive innovation. With over six years of experience, I specialize in designing ETL pipelines, automating data processes, and leveraging AI-driven analytics to improve accuracy and efficiency. Currently, I work at Cognizant Technology Solutions, where I focus on Databricks, PySpark, AWS, and Snowflake, helping businesses make sense of their data. But beyond my day-to-day work, I love giving back to the tech community. I’m a tech mentor who enjoys guiding aspiring engineers, and I’ve had the privilege of judging major AI and tech competitions, including the Globee Awards, the Asia-Pacific Stevie® Awards, Major League Hacking (MLH) and various Hackathons. I also contribute to climate research as a Research Analyst at Climate Change Xplorers, where I work on geospatial analytics and predictive modeling to analyze global weather data. Academically, I hold a Master’s in Computer Science from Southern Arkansas University and a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Gujarat Technological University. I’m also a Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer and a Databricks Certified Data Engineer. I thrive on collaborating with like-minded professionals, speaking at AI and data science events, and sharing insights through hackathons and research projects. If you’re interested in AI, cloud data engineering, or analytics-driven innovation, I’d love to connect!

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineer with expertise in AI-driven analytics and cloud solutions.

Location: New York City, New York, United States

Experience: 8 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Data Engineering
Etl Design
Data Governance
Compliance Management
Etl Development
Data Quality Management
Data Analysis
Research
Predictive Modeling
Web Development
Software Development
Data Visualization

Career Highlights

Built scalable ETL pipelines for data quality.
Mentored junior developers in data engineering best practices.
Contributed to climate research through advanced analytics.

Work Experience

Cognizant

Senior Associate Developer (1 yr 5 mos)

Associate Developer (3 yrs 7 mos)

Climate Change Xplorers

Research Assistant (6 mos)

Converseon.AI

Junior Software Developer (2 mos)

Southern Arkansas University

Graduate Assistant (4 mos)

Graduate Student Assistant (9 mos)

techaltius

Software Developer Trainee (1 yr)

Alok Enterprise - India

Computer Programmer and Analyst (1 yr 10 mos)

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

Cyber Security Trainee (2 mos)

Education

Master of Science at Southern Arkansas University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Gujarat Technological University (GTU)

Aniket Soni

Product Manager

New York City, New York, United States8 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built scalable ETL pipelines for data quality.
Mentored junior developers in data engineering best practices.
Contributed to climate research through advanced analytics.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineer with expertise in AI-driven analytics and cloud solutions.

Contact

aniket271993@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringEtl DesignData GovernanceCompliance ManagementEtl DevelopmentData Quality ManagementData AnalysisResearchPredictive ModelingWeb DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentData Visualization

Other Skills

DatabricksPySparkAWSSnowflakeTableauQuickSightReal-time MonitoringETLData QualityAWS S3SQLBig Data AnalyticsMachine LearningGeospatial AnalyticsPython

About

Experience

Cognizant

2 roles

Senior Associate Developer

Promoted

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

Built and managed Access Violation Framework by analyzing Snowflake query logs and HR data to track user requests vs. actual data accessed, identifying violations and reducing compliance risks by 35%.
Strengthened data governance processes by implementing security guidelines, privacy flag automation and metadata validation to support current and upcoming privacy regulations.
Implemented real-time monitoring and alerting (Slack API, email automation) to notify upstream teams of late or missing datasets, reducing downtime for data consumers by 25%.
Maintained Tableau and QuickSight dashboards to visualize DQ trends, violation metrics and partner-level transaction reporting, improving business transparency and decision-making.
Mentored junior developers on ETL design patterns, Spark performance optimization and best practices for metadata management and data observability.

DatabricksPySparkAWSSnowflakeTableauQuickSight+2

Associate Developer

Mar 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

Built ETL pipelines to perform Data Quality jobs such as Consistency, Validity, Completeness and Timeliness between the origination source and destination data
Automated and migrated reports from Nebula to Exchange Catalog and re-processed them for the respective team
Using Databricks, write scripts to generate daily and weekly reports in an automated fashion
Using API, automated Privacy Data Flags using Bulk Util Tool to process over 1M datasets on AWS S3 and over 3M datasets on OneLake and Snowflake platform for team’s data steward
Implemented security guidelines to manage and process privacy data registration and ensure accurate metadata to support compliance
Provided data governance support and processed multiple datasets with current and future privacy acts/regulations

ETLData QualityDatabricksAWS S3SQLData Engineering+1

Climate change xplorers

Research Assistant

Sep 2020 – Mar 2021 · 6 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Remote

A Earth Science Informatics Partners (ESIP) backed research project.
Evaluate the data quality of large, open weather data sources coming off of IoT and AWS devices.
Employing big data analytics and machine learning skills to accomplish the project objectives.
Visualizing spatial density of weather observations and their impact on prediction.
Models and tools to inform expansion of Mesonets.
Development of IoT solutions to fill gaps in the models.
Decision processing for informed IoTwx deployments.
Visualize relationship between data and build applications atop an easy-top-use API of EarthCube's CHORDS systems.
Integration into IPFS and blockchain platforms such as ocean protocol.

Big Data AnalyticsMachine LearningGeospatial AnalyticsData AnalysisResearch

Converseon.ai

Junior Software Developer

Jul 2020 – Sep 2020 · 2 mos · New York, United States · Remote

Working on JIRA tickets in Python-Django webapp on the back-end & HTML, CSS, Bootstrap on the front-end.
Writing cron-jobs to collect data from Twitter API and Youtube API and store them into ElasticSearch.
Analyzing data and creating new Tableau dashboards for visualizing data from PostgreSQL database.
Implemented logging of test results in clean readable format with SQL queries and Tableau path.
Committed and Pushed necessary changes to Git in pull request branch.
Wrapping data source with uniform API and processing data for the data targets for visualization.

PythonDjangoHTMLCSSWeb DevelopmentSoftware Development

Southern arkansas university

3 roles

Graduate Assistant

Jan 2020 – May 2020 · 4 mos · Magnolia, Arkansas, United States · On-site

Graduate Assistant at Honors College SAU
Managing content transfer on SUSE Linux and RedHat Linux servers.
Performing regular maintenance task on servers such as cleaning and wiping temporary cache file
Build simple and dynamic webpage using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

LinuxHTMLCSSJavaScript

Graduate Assistant

Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 · 4 mos · Magnolia, Arkansas, United States · On-site

Graduate Assistant at Magale Library SAU
Managing records and helping out students with an inventory
Solving issues related to informational database and hardware connections of library systems
Providing computer assistance to patrons in need

Microsoft OfficeREST APIsPublic Speaking

Graduate Student Assistant

Nov 2018 – Aug 2019 · 9 mos · Magnolia, Arkansas, United States · On-site

Microsoft OfficeREST APIsPublic Speaking

Techaltius

Software Developer Trainee

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · Ahmedabad, Gujarat · On-site

Completed a structured training program in software web designing and development
Mastering aspects of web designing and development from basics of programming such as HTML5, CSS3, concepts of OOPs and basics of programming in C++
Brush-up skill development by hand coding using JavaScript and practiced database queries in Microsoft SQL
Implemented new site content architecture with better look-n-feel as well as better navigation schema
Designed, built and maintained internal web applications in ASP .Net using Microsoft .Net in Visual Studio 2010 on the system

.NETHTMLCSSMicrosoft OfficeSoftware DevelopmentWeb Development

Alok enterprise - india

Computer Programmer and Analyst

Sep 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · On-site

Developing and mainting small-scale applications using the .NET Framework to support
day-to day operations.
Designing and updating internal web pages using HTML and CSS for company use.
Preparing and analyzing business reports in MS EXCEL to track sales,inventory and
customer service data.
Assisting in automating routine reporting and data entry tasks to improve accuracy and
efficiency.
Providing basic technical support for software and system issues reported by staff.
Documenting workflows and analysis reports for management review.
Collaborating with team members to test and troubleshoot applications.

Microsoft OfficeREST APIsPublic Speaking

Bharat sanchar nigam limited

Cyber Security Trainee

Oct 2013 – Dec 2013 · 2 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat · On-site

Completed a hands-on training program
Worked in close touch with Regional Telecom Training Centre and learned how to they implement security for internet at Software Level
Gained practical understanding Cyber Security techniques currently implemented at BSNL along with the networking protocols used by them
Worked with Software Network Engineers at BSNL on a small project to track the telecom usage using Microsoft .Net programming language
Also performed Black-box and Ad-hoc testing on their application and reported 15 bugs