Welcome, Data Wanderers!

You’ve crash-landed on the digital playground of a SQL sorcerer, ELT whisperer, and self-proclaimed “Director of Data Chaos” (official title: Director of Data Engineering & Analytics). No ‘regerts’ here – just a stash of Milky Way bars, a soft spot for K-dramas (thanks, wife!), and a decade of turning data dumpster fires into well-oiled insights.

Whether you’re a SQL aficionado (or a Sequel enthusiast) or simply curious about the magic behind data engineering, BI, and analytics, you’re in the right spot.

Hi, I’m Anil Thapa.

By day, I architect data empires that turn raw bytes into boardroom gold. By night, I’m a dad-chaperone, nonprofit volunteer, and relentless debugger of “BUT IT WORKED IN DEV!” moments.

What I Do

I’m the data plumber you never knew you needed. My toolkit includes:

• Building bulletproof data pipelines (Spark, Fivetran, Glue, and enough Python to make a snake jealous).
• Herding JSONs into Parquet: Taming unstructured data for cloud-native warehouses (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift – you name it).
• Orchestrating data symphonies: Conducting Apache Airflow DAGs so smooth, they’d make Beethoven jealous and wiring observability tools to catch pipeline tantrums before they crash your Friday.
• Turning data into crystal balls: Building ML models that predict the future (or at least next quarter’s sales) with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and a dash of “please don’t overfit” prayers.
• Data discovery for the lost & confused: Tagging metadata like a GPS for your data lake, so analysts stop asking, “Wait, what’s this column?” for the 100th time.
• Playing data cop: Enforcing governance policies that even GDPR would nod at, because “wild west data” is only fun in movies.
• Real-time analytics that don’t crash: Because “refresh failed” should never ruin your Monday coffee.
• Teaching CSV files to behave: Migrating legacy systems to scalable data lakes without summoning the downtime kraken.
• Leadership: Scaling teams faster than a GROUP BY on a terabyte table.

Think of me as the Gandalf of data: “You shall not pass… bad data!”

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My Mission

I like to share the tools, tricks, and occasional tech humor that have helped me navigate the wild, ever-evolving data landscape. This isn’t just about building reports or fixing dashboards; you will see my rants/tips on everything from dbt models to debugging Airflow’s “it works on my machine” lies.