Aniket Abhishek Soni

Senior Data Engineer at Cognizant with 7+ years in ETL pipelines, AI-driven analytics, and cloud-native systems (Databricks, PySpark, Snowflake, AWS). Writing about data engineering, AI & cloud.

Brooklyn, New York, United States of America Joined on May 27, 2026 https://aniketsoni.com

Education

MS Computer Science - Southern Arkansas University

Pronouns

He/Him/His

Work

Senior Data Engineer at Cognizant Technology Solutions

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 27

Why I Stopped Caring Which Table Format You Use

#datalake #engineering #architecture #bigdata

5 min read

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Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 25

Is Snowflake-managed Iceberg the ultimate Trojan horse or your data’s salvation?

#snowflake #iceberg #data #architecture

5 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 25

Why you should stop manual Z-ordering today

#databricks #deltalake #bigdata #engineering

5 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 21

Stop waking up at 3 AM: Why your data pipelines must be idempotent

#dataengineering #pipelines #architecture #data

5 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 20

What building HIPAA-compliant lakehouses taught me about real-world encryption

#data #security #cloud #compliance

4 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 19

Stop letting bad data break your production pipelines

#data #engineering #dlt #pipelines

4 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 16

Why your Iceberg catalog choice is costing you more than your storage

#iceberg #data #architecture #storage

5 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 15

Text-to-SQL is a solved problem: why you’re about to leak your PII

#sql #llm #security #data

5 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 14

Time Travel isn't a Debugging Luxury: Why Delta and Iceberg are Compliance Essentials

#data #engineering #iceberg #delta

4 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 14

Is BigLake the End of Your Vendor Lock-in Delusion?

#gcp #bigquery #iceberg #dataengineering

5 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 14

Querying Petabytes of Iceberg Tables via BigLake without Breaking Production

#dataengineering #gcp #iceberg #bigquery

4 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 14

Why I’m finally ditching Hive Metastore for BigLake Iceberg

#gcp #iceberg #bigquery #dataengineering

5 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 14

How I Finally Killed the Full-Refresh Silver Layer

#delta #databricks #spark #dataengineering

5 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 14

Cutting Snowflake compute costs 40 percent: warehouse sizing, auto-suspend, and query pruning

#snowflake #cloud #data #engineering

5 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 13

Streaming Tables vs. Materialized Views: Stop Guessing Your Databricks Refresh Strategy

#databricks #dataengineering #spark #delta

5 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 12

Stop Burning Cash: Databricks Cost Optimization Patterns That Actually Work

#databricks #cloud #finops #dataengineering

5 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 12

Navigating Schema Shifts: Keeping Your Streaming Pipeline Smooth for Everyone

#streaming #schema #data #engineering

4 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 12

The Silent Killer in Your Streaming Pipeline: Schema Evolution Without Tears

#schema #streaming #datapipelines #production

10 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 11

Zero to Hardened: A Practical Migration Playbook for Docker Hardened Images in Regulated Industries

#docker #security #devops #containers

7 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 10

It Works on My Cluster: Containerizing Spark and Lakehouse Development with Docker

#docker #dataengineering #spark #devops

7 min read

Aniket Abhishek Soni

Jun 8

Biohack Your Brain with Neural Implants: Why Silicon Valley's Elite Are Betting Big in 2026

#ai #neuroscience #technology #future

5 min read