Swapnil Phulse

About Me

Honestly speaking, these 'About me' sections are so hard to write; there's either so much to say that you don't know where to start, or there is nothing to say at all. But I'll give it a go.

I'm a data-enabled software engineering professional with focus on cross-functional enterprise applications and data acccess platforms. Architecting and building highly available, performant and scalable distributed systems. Industry experience with writing RESTful APIs, backend design, efficient data access layers, big data, modeling/warehousing, and building ETL pipeline solutions.

Having had the fortune of working on both software enineering and big data architecture, I bring in a diverse set of skills and an end-to-end expertise in clean and efficient coding, practical knowledge of design patterns(for APIs as well as database solutions) and test-driven development.

I'm also a chronic automator and web scraper, which blends in well with my innate DRY(Don't-Repeat-Yourself) personality type. Besides my work, I also work on creating pro-bono infomercial products aimed at teaching software development to the less priviledged.

Quite recently, I joined Thoughtworks Inc. as a Sr. Data Engineer(Remote). Super stoked to start this new journey!!

In the recent past, I was working with with Deloitte in their Analytics and Technology practice. The sheer exposure to range of technology at my workplace has made me comfortable working fullstack and back - right from digging into css, to writing APIs, to creating batch/streaming backend solutions. I write software backends that power performant data analytics platforms for leading banks across the globe. I also have previous experience working with top US Pharma giants, mainly on optimizing their data refineries & adjusting Incentive Compensation programmes. Banking and Pharma - needless to say, code that I commit has to respect the country specific boundaries, regulations and policies. But this complexity drives me to create simple yet maintainable solutions.

When I'm not fighting fire at home, I enjoy automating mundane tasks on the web (admittedly a life-hacker). I keep keen interest in shortform video editing - a skill I picked up while creating inhouse tutorial videos for firms I work(ed) at.Other interests include pondering about life, sometimes long enough to drop nuggets of wisdom - I'm my personal 'quote philosopher'. Besides that, I also have a penchant for humor, memes & staying woke.