Jyoti Maheshwari is a globally recognized Senior Data Engineering Leader with over 17 years of experience architecting enterprise-scale data platforms and AI-driven analytics solutions. Currently serving as Senior Data Engineer and Lead Architect for Fintech at Airbnb, she functions as the Single Threaded Owner (STO) for critical GBV and Revenue pipelines that power SEC filings and quarterly earnings reports. She partners with Finance and Treasury leadership to model global cash flow and safeguarding metrics, incorporating AI-driven anomaly detection and forecasting models while maintaining audit-grade architecture on AWS using S3, Redshift, Spark, Trino, and Iceberg.
At Meta Inc., Jyoti led Data Engineering efforts in the iOS 14 War Room to mitigate multi-billion-dollar revenue loss from Apple's App Tracking Transparency changes, developing KPI volatility monitors and trust dashboards that restored advertiser confidence. She also spearheaded Meta's flagship End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) initiative for Messenger and Instagram, building AI-enhanced telemetry and analytics infrastructure while maintaining GDPR/CCPA compliance as the Data Engineering representative in technical design councils.
Throughout her career, Jyoti has delivered transformational results across multiple industries. At Arthur J. Gallagher, she pioneered the company's first greenfield, enterprise-wide Advanced Analytics Platform on Microsoft Azure, serving as the chief architect to deliver a unified data infrastructure that integrates Salesforce, APIs, and third-party vendors. At Zurich North America, she spearheaded the implementation of an enterprise data lake and played a critical role in the RCIS acquisition by architecting data integration pipelines. Her early career included modernizing pharmacy data platforms at Walgreens and designing trading algorithms at CCIL for national banks and financial institutions.
Her technical expertise spans cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), big data technologies (Hadoop ecosystem, Spark, Kafka), AI/ML frameworks (Azure ML, Databricks, MLflow), and modern data architectures (Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Snowflake), along with comprehensive DevOps and data governance frameworks. Jyoti holds a B.Tech from U.P. Technical University (2007) and is pursuing her M.B.A. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2025-2027). She maintains multiple industry certifications, including Microsoft Certified Azure Solution Architect Expert and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Professional, with recognition through awards, including the Bronze Award for Strategic Execution at Zurich NA.
Beyond her technical achievements, Jyoti serves on Airbnb's elite Data Engineering Interview Panel, mentoring incoming talent and crafting technical assessments. She also functions as Scrum Master for the FinTech Data Engineering team. Based in Aurora, Illinois, she continues to drive innovation at the intersection of data engineering, artificial intelligence, and business strategy.