Shikha Sharma is a Senior Data Engineer at Pure Insurance, where she builds large-scale data ingestion and streaming pipelines on Spark and Databricks. Her work focuses on bronze-layer pipeline engineering, EAV-based data architectures, and compliance-driven encryption pipelines for regulated data. She has designed change-data-capture streaming jobs, integrated diverse sources from SQL Server to REST APIs, and deployed FastAPI data services in production. Before moving into insurance data, Shikha worked in clinical research data engineering and science policy,experience that shapes her practical approach to turning messy, highly regulated data into reliable foundations for analytics.