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Real-Time Data Pipeline

A streaming pipeline that turned a batch job nobody trusted into a system the whole company queries with confidence.

The old pipeline ran once a night and broke more often than anyone wanted to admit, quietly feeding different answers to different teams. We rebuilt it as a streaming system on a tested, documented data model, so freshness is measured in minutes and a failure gets caught before it ever reaches a dashboard.

Challenges we solve

Nightly batch jobs kept failing

Volume had outgrown the original pipeline, and failures went unnoticed until someone asked why a report looked wrong.

No single source of truth

Different teams queried different copies of the same data and got different answers.

Schema changes broke downstream reports

A single upstream change could silently corrupt dashboards relied on company-wide.

What we deliver

Streaming ingestion pipeline

Event data processed as it arrives instead of in overnight batches.

Modeled, tested data tables

A documented data model with automated tests that catch issues before they reach reports.

Monitoring and alerting

The team is notified the moment a pipeline step fails, not days later.

Outcomes

Data freshness improved from a day to minutes
One tested, trusted data model company-wide
Pipeline failures caught automatically
Reporting incidents dropped significantly

Technologies

PythonPostgreSQLDockerKubernetesFastAPI

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