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A pipeline that ran unattended for months, a Spark project with a measured speed-up, and an internship that moved reports into SQL. Every tool sits in a bullet.
The sample
HARSH PATEL
Ahmedabad, Gujarat · harsh.patel@email.com · +91 98765 43210 · github.com/harsh-patel
Summary
B.Tech Computer Engineering graduate (2025) aiming for a Data Engineer role, skilled in Python, SQL and Airflow. Built a pipeline that loaded 2.1 million rows of city bus data over 90 days without a missed run.
Education
B.Tech, Computer Engineering, Nirma University, Ahmedabad2021 – 2025 · CGPA 8.0
Class XII, Gujarat State Board2021 · 89%
Skills
Languages: Python, SQL
Tools: Apache Spark, Airflow, PostgreSQL, AWS (S3), Docker
Concepts: ETL, data modelling, data quality checks
Projects
City bus data pipeline | Python, Airflow, PostgreSQL | SoloFeb 2025
An ETL pipeline that pulls a city’s open bus-arrival data every 15 minutes and loads it into PostgreSQL.
Scheduled it in Airflow with retries, kept the raw files on AWS S3, and wrote SQL views for a daily delay report.
Ran for 90 days without a missed load and collected 2.1 million rows.
Order analytics with Spark | Apache Spark, Python, Docker | Team of 2Sep 2024
Processed 5 GB of public e-commerce orders with Apache Spark (PySpark) running in Docker on a laptop.
Did the data modelling: a star schema with one fact table and four dimensions.
Queries that took 40 seconds on the raw CSV files ran in 3.
Internship
Data Engineering Intern, Shopwise, BengaluruMay 2024 – Jul 2024
Moved 6 daily Excel reports into scheduled SQL jobs, saving the analytics team about an hour a day.
Wrote Python data quality checks for missing and duplicate rows before each load; they caught 3 bad loads in two months.
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What data engineer postings ask for
The share of 132 open postings in this field, across all experience levels, whose requirements name each skill. A tick means the sample shows it. List only the ones you can show; the rest are what to learn next.
- ✓Data engineering50%
- ✓Analytics43%
- ✓Python41%
- ✓SQL39%
- ✓AWS30%
- ✓Spark27%
- ✓ETL27%
- ·Azure24%
Counted on 18 October 2026 from postings of the previous 45 days. How we counted, and other fields.
Why it works
1
Show it ran, not only that it was built
“90 days without a missed load” is what a data team wants to hear. Pipelines are judged on the days nothing happened.
2
Name the orchestration and the store
Airflow, Spark, PostgreSQL, S3: data engineering postings name tools, and so should your bullets.
3
Data quality is a skill
A check that caught bad rows before they reached a report is worth a bullet of its own.
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