Cover Letter

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Dear ,

I am excited to apply for the Data Engineer position at . With over one year of hands-on experience in building scalable data pipelines, transforming raw data into actionable insights, and managing cloud-based infrastructures, I am confident in my ability to contribute significantly to your team's success.

Throughout my internship at Accenture, I gained valuable experience in working with AWS, Azure, GCP, and big data technologies like Apache Spark. I was responsible for developing machine learning models, optimizing ETL pipelines, and designing cloud data architectures. Additionally, my knowledge of SQL, Python, and tools like Apache Airflow and dbt has allowed me to build robust data engineering solutions, which I believe would be an asset to your team.

Key Skills

• Extensive expertise in AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms
• Proven proficiency with Python, Apache Spark, and SQL
• Strong experience with data warehousing solutions such as Snowflake and BigQuery
• Experience with Django web development and PostgreSQL integration

Highlighted Projects

• Real time voting data engineering project

  This repository contains the code for a realtime election voting system. The system is built using Python, Kafka, Spark Streaming, Postgres and Streamlit. The system is built using Docker Compose to easily spin up the required services in Docker containers.

• RealtimeStreamingEngineering

  Data Pipeline with Reddit, Airflow, Celery, Postgres, S3, AWS Glue, Athena, and Redshift

• Sparkify ETL Pipeline with Airflow and Redshift

  This project builds a complete ETL pipeline to ingest Sparkify’s music data into an AWS Redshift data warehouse. It uses Apache Airflow for orchestration and scheduling. Data is extracted from AWS S3, transformed using custom Python scripts, and loaded into a star schema in Redshift to support analytical queries about user activity and song preferences.

• Digital CheckIn System

  A complete employee management and attendance system built with Django. The application allows employee registration, face recognition-based attendance marking, leave request management, department management, and admin dashboards for full control. Employees can update their profile, while admins can monitor attendance records, approve leave requests, and manage employee data efficiently.

• Full-Stack Django Personal Portfolio with AWS Deployment

  Designed and developed a full-stack personal portfolio website using Django as backend and Bootstrap 5, AOS, and custom JavaScript libraries for interactive frontend. Implemented complete CRUD operations for dynamic project management using Django Admin interface. Integrated media upload functionality for project images and GitHub repository linking for each project entry. Enabled real-time category-based filtering of projects using Django ORM, slugify filters, and Isotope-style filtering logic. Configured secure contact form with CSRF protection, form validation, and Django form processing. Optimized static file handling using Django Whitenoise and Nginx for efficient production-ready deployment. Fully deployed on AWS EC2 instance with Gunicorn, Nginx, systemd, and PostgreSQL database integration. Managed source code and deployment lifecycle using Git, GitHub, and SSH remote synchronization.

• Django Tailwind Blog - Developer Portfolio Site

  Created a complete developer portfolio website with Django backend and TailwindCSS frontend. Created dynamic blog, project showcase, categories, and contact form and implemented custom error handling. Built Django models, templates, and PostgreSQL database integrations. Deployed responsive web application with static/media file management.

Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to the possibility of discussing how my skills and background can contribute to your team's success.

Sincerely,
Akhil Bonthinayanivari