Chirag Jatin Gajiwala is an AWS Certified Lead Cloud Data Engineer with over 14 years of experience building scalable data platforms, cloud architectures, and business intelligence solutions across the healthcare, financial services, and enterprise SaaS industries.
Currently at Equifax Analytics, Chirag leads data and cloud integration initiatives spanning GCP and AWS environments. His work involves developing Python and Terraform modules for large-scale data ingestion and reconciliation, conducting proof-of-concept evaluations for cloud-native databases including DynamoDB, Aurora, and RDS, and driving automation that has measurably streamlined cloud engineering workflows. He regularly communicates architectural findings and data engineering practices to global leadership teams.
Prior to Equifax, Chirag spent nearly four years at Nutanix Inc. as a Senior Data Engineer, where he led the end-to-end design and deployment of scalable ETL pipelines for the Xi DRaaS platform. His work there encompassed distributed batch and streaming pipeline development using Kafka, Databricks, Airflow, BigQuery, and Snowflake, reducing log latency by 35% and generating significant annual cost savings. He also led GCP-based Identity and Access Management initiatives and built data quality frameworks aligned with NIST and SOC2 compliance standards.
Earlier in his career, Chirag held data engineering and analytics roles at Humana Inc., Colibri Group, and Santander Bank, where he built dimensional models, star schema data warehouses, and analytics dashboards supporting credit risk, claims processing, and customer segmentation at scale. He began his career at Syntel Limited and Infosys Limited, contributing to large-scale ETL pipeline design, legacy database migrations, and application data modelling. His technical toolkit spans Python, SQL, PySpark, Apache Spark, Snowflake, Tableau, Power BI, and cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Chirag holds a Master of Science in Information Systems with a focus on Big Data and Data Science from Northeastern University, Boston, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication from Mumbai University.