Parikshit Chauhan is a Senior Database Expert and AI-Driven Data Engineer with 20+ years of experience spanning database administration, intelligent automation, digital transformation, and enterprise-scale data solutions. He brings deep expertise across MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure, Azure Databricks, AWS, Azure SQL, SQL Azure Managed Instance, PowerShell, Python, PySpark, Shell Scripting, and emerging AI/ML integration frameworks, including MCP (Model Context Protocol) server architectures that enable real-time, context-aware AI agent interactions with live data systems.
He currently serves as a Senior Database Administrator / Data Engineer at The David J. Joseph – NBT – NUCOR Company, where he architects and manages a modern, AI-augmented data platform. His responsibilities include Azure SQL Server administration, Databricks Unity Catalog governance, Delta Lake pipeline engineering, and deploying Databricks Apps for self-service analytics and operational dashboards. He drives AI/ML model integration into production data workflows, enabling predictive maintenance on engineering equipment data streams, anomaly detection across database
performance metrics, and intelligent automation of SOX audit requirements. He also leverages MCP server integrations to connect large language model agents directly to enterprise data sources, enabling natural language querying and AI-assisted data operations across approximately 15 database servers in the DJJ environment. Additional focus areas include data warehouse modernization, API-based data ingestion, and end-to-end DataOps across the Databricks Lakehouse platform.
Parikshit has worked with organizations and clients, including Fifth Third Bank, Nationstar Mortgage LLC, NHS, Alta College Inc., Conexa, NYUMC, NYPH, AT&T, and the Government of Gujarat projects. His experience includes SQL Server upgrades, high-availability setup, security, monitoring, replication, capacity planning, partitioning, data compression, index optimization, backup and restore, and RCA analysis.
He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from North Gujarat University, Gujarat, India, and has completed certifications and trainings, including MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Administration, SAFe 4.0, ITIL Foundation, Cloud Computing Foundation, Big Data and Hadoop Ecosystems Foundation, Web Modernization-BFS Foundation, and LDP_ASCENT Leadership Journey Certificate.
Parikshit is known for his problem-solving capabilities, communication skills, self-motivation, quick learning ability, and ability to work as both an independent contributor and collaborative team leader.