About
Anima Acharya is a Data Engineer based in Sydney, passionate about building scalable and reliable data pipelines that drive real business value. With a strong emphasis on automation, testing, and deployment, she bridges the gap between data engineering and DevOps - bringing modern software development practices into the data space. Anima focuses on incorporating CI/CD principles, version control, and automated testing into data workflows to improve trust, reduce errors, and enable faster, more reliable delivery. She enjoys speaking at tech meetups and conferences and is an active member of women-in-tech communities, advocating for diversity and knowledge-sharing in data.
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Deploying Data Models with Confidence: A CI/CD Approach in Data Engineering
We often rave about the latest data engineering tools - modern warehouses, transformation frameworks, and orchestration platforms but we rarely talk about how these models get deployed with confidence. CI/CD (Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment) is often seen as a software development practice, but in reality, it plays a game-changing role in data engineering. Without CI/CD, data teams face manual deployments, broken pipelines, and inconsistent data models, leading to unreliable insights.