Summary
Yogita Darade is a Microsoft- and Databricks-certified Solution Architect and data engineer based in Houston with 11+ years of experience building scalable cloud data platforms and analytics solutions, primarily on Azure. She combines deep hands-on expertise in PySpark, Azure Databricks, Data Lakehouse architectures, Data Vault methodology and ELT orchestration with a strong background in capital markets and brokerage systems, giving her a rare blend of domain and technical fluency. Her career spans hands-on engineering through leadership roles—developer to project manager to architect—reflecting an ability to translate complex business requirements into production-grade pipelines and cost-aware cloud designs. Notably, she architected a modular PySpark ingestion framework that scaled across 20+ transit agencies and reduced development effort by ~90%, and she frequently bridges onshore/offshore teams and stakeholders through clear documentation and CI/CD automation. Passionate about continual learning, she pairs a McCombs postgraduate focus in data science with active portfolio and GitHub projects that showcase practical data engineering and analytics work.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Data Science And Business Analytics, Postgraduate Degree Data Science And Business Analytics at Texas McCombs School of Business
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Usha Mittal Institute of Technology, S.N.D.T University
Diploma Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Diploma Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at University of Mumbai