Nikhil Ambati is a Senior Data Engineer at Noble Research Institute, where he leads data platform engineering on Azure and Databricks. He architected the migration of transformation logic to dbt, building 150+ Kimball-style models across research, finance, marketing, and learning domains bringing consistency to mission-critical metrics for one of America's oldest agricultural nonprofits. He also designed an AI copilot powered by the dbt Semantic Layer and MCP server, enabling conversational metric queries.