Selina Khan

Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience building scalable, data-driven platforms across cloud and on-premises environments. Skilled in C#, .NET, and PowerShell scripting, with expertise in real-time streaming (Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect) and ETL pipeline development. Experienced in multi-cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), schema governance, AI solutions and CI/CD automation, delivering high-performance, secure data platforms with 50%+ performance improvements and $450K+ in annual cost savings.

Packaged App Development Analyst - Accenture

(2023-08)

• Led migration of 200+ BigQuery and HTTP Sink Connectors within distributed systems, from vendor-managed to self-managed, ensuring data integrity and delivering $150K annual cost savings.
• Developed scalable microservices and Web APIs using .NET Core, integrated with Schema Registry, enforcing data governance and compatibility policies that reduced Kafka streaming errors by 40%.
• Integrated middleware into backend services to monitor customer usage, enabling service analytics and operational insights to leadership.
• Contributed to a governance model to monitor and control data production to Kafka topics, ensuring data volumes remained within expected thresholds and detecting significant deviations from historical patterns.
• Enabled secure, cloud-native authentication (AWS IAM, Microsoft Entra ID) on connectors, eliminating static credentials and reducing security risks by 90%.
• Worked as SME for the Self-Service tool across multiple releases, ensuring production validation, data quality, and defect resolution with 100% deployment reliability.
• Engineered an ESP test strategy standardizing non-production connector archival and retention, bolstering data governance, and delivering $300K in savings via optimized resource utilization.
• Delivered a Kafka Connect SMT for PII detection and redaction using regex-based matching, supporting multiple data formats and improving data privacy and compliance across pipelines.
• Led the design and implementation of an intelligent chatbot using Amethyst Studio for building and deploying AI-powered agents, effectively leveraging Artificial Intelligence to enhance operational workflows.
• Collaborated with a cross-functional team to implement Apache Flink, driving process improvement and production support for the backend self-service platform with 99.2% test coverage, reducing data-to-insight latency by 50%.
• Implemented advanced observability and real-time monitoring using Splunk, while adhering to secure coding principles to ensure system integrity across publisher and subscriber systems.
• Utilized Power BI to create and optimize dynamic, insightful dashboards from the data stored in the Insights table, enabling key stakeholders to analyze and visualize critical business metrics.
• Managed source code versioning and collaborative development workflows using Git, facilitating rigorous code reviews to ensure high code quality and seamless integration across multi-team project environments.
• Managed CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows on Azure DevOps, orchestrating build, test, and deployment processes across multiple environments to ensure 100% release reliability and zero-downtime deployments.
• Implemented replay topic partition controls by enforcing a single replay partition regardless of source-topic partitions, preventing partition-limit exhaustion across 50+ Kafka topics and strengthening cluster governance.

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering - Haldia Institute of Technology, West Bengal (2019-01 - 2023-12)