Data Engineer · Dublin, Ireland
Pratik Barve
Building data systems at scale — payment pipelines, observability, and ML tooling at AIB. Physics researcher turned engineer; building things on the side.
Currently @ AIB · Previously TIFR Astronomy & HEP · Northwestern Code/Astro
Things I've Built
Production SaaS · Full-Stack
DividendCase
dividendcase.com ↗Full-stack fintech SaaS for dividend stock analysis. Portfolio tracking, income calendars, benchmark comparison, watchlists with drag-and-drop. Daily GitHub Actions pipeline fetches S&P 500, FTSE 100, NIFTY 50, TSX 60, ISEQ 20, ASX 200.
Education Platform · Interactive
PhysicStuff
physicstuff.com ↗Interactive physics education platform with real-time browser simulations — Lorenz attractor, Fourier synthesis, Mandelbrot explorer, projectile motion, wave packets. Migrated from WordPress to Next.js.
Python · PyPI Package
Maglimit
Published PyPI package for astronomical observability — determines if an object is observable given its magnitude and a telescope's limiting magnitude. Built at Caltech's CodeAstro workshop.
Where I've Worked
Allied Irish Bank (AIB)
Aug 2025 – Present
Data Engineer
Building large-scale Python automation tools for data preprocessing across Payments teams. Splunk Observability, Enterprise, and ITSI for infrastructure and payment monitoring.
Sep 2023 – Jul 2025
Data Analyst · Technology Graduate Programme
3 rotations: ETL pipelines in Python → Splunk dashboards for SWIFT/SEPA/Instant Payment monitoring (reduced MTTR) → NLP-based PII anonymisation with Microsoft Presidio + OpenTelemetry microservice monitoring.
Dec 2024, Jun 2023, May 2021
Dec 2024, Jun 2023, May 2021
Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT)
Python Tutor
Taught Python for scientific computing and astronomical data analysis at Winter & Summer Schools. Topics: NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, Astropy.
Jul 2023
Jul 2023
Northwestern University
Teaching Assistant — Code/Astro 2023
Assisted participants in publishing Python packages on PyPI and documenting them with ReadTheDocs at Caltech's Code/Astro workshop.
2021 – 2022
2021 – 2022
TIFR · Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Research Project
Fast Radio Burst detection rate estimation using Schechter luminosity functions. Optimised radio telescope array design for astrophysical event detection.
Jan – May 2019
Jan – May 2019
TIFR · Dept. of High Energy Physics
Master's Thesis
Fabrication and characterisation of Resistive Plate Chambers for the Cosmic Muon Tracker (INO project).
Technical Stack
Data Engineering
Observability
ML / AI
Scientific
Certifications