Delhi-based Sr. Data Engineer at phData (India delivery), recognized as a Data Superhero in 2025 and again in 2026 for practitioner-level Snowflake writing and India user-group speaking (inference). Index: [[snowflake-data-superheroes/index|index]].
Known for
- Hands-on data-engineering how-tos on Snowflake: slowly changing dimensions (LinkedIn article, Oct 2023) and Avro loading/querying (phData blog, Apr 2024).
- Speaking at India Snowflake user-group events billed as a Data Superhero, e.g. the Snowflake Jaipur "Explore Snowflake's Capabilities with Data Superheroes" virtual event, 2025-11-01 (usergroups.snowflake.com).
- Co-presenting an official Snowflake virtual hands-on lab, "Accelerate Data Product Delivery with Snowflake CoCo" (2026-08-05, APJ time slot), with a Snowflake employee, on building governed data products with CoCo and machine-readable data contracts (snowflake.com).
Contribution channels
- Community answers: ? (no Snowflake Community forum profile found)
- User group: Speaker at Snowflake Jaipur Data Superheroes virtual event, 2025-11-01 (event page). Her LinkedIn activity feed references recent Snowflake Delhi User Group sessions (agentic migration, Horizon context, Cortex, Document Intelligence) (LinkedIn), but she is NOT listed as a Delhi chapter leader; the leaders are Shubhangi Singh (Snowflake), Ruchi Soni and Riya Khandelwal (Delhi chapter page). Treat her Delhi role as speaker/participant.
- Blog: Implementing SCDs in Snowflake (LinkedIn Pulse, 2023-10-25, uses India air-quality data as the worked example); Mastering Avro File Handling for Seamless Data Operations With Snowflake (phData blog, 2024-04-03). No phData author page is linked from the post. No Medium / Snowflake Builders Blog posts found under her name.
- YouTube / talks: Snowflake virtual hands-on lab co-presenter, 2026-08-05 (snowflake.com). No Summit/BUILD/World Tour speaker listing found.
- Open source: ? (no GitHub found)
- Books: ?
- Certs: Per LinkedIn: Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate, Microsoft Data Analyst Associate, DP-200/DP-201, Microsoft Certified Trainer (2021-2022), IBM Cloud Pak for Data V2.5 Solution Architect, Anaplan L1-L3 (LinkedIn). No SnowPro certification visible in public sources (it may exist; unverified).
Path to recognition
- 2019 onward: migrating data to the cloud (search-snippet summary of her LinkedIn; see Notes).
- 2020-2023: M.Tech (work-integrated) at BITS Pilani via Wipro's Data Analytics & AI line; Microsoft data certs and Microsoft Certified Trainer status in 2021-2022 (LinkedIn). Her cert stack is Azure-first, so she came to Snowflake from the Microsoft data ecosystem (inference).
- 2023-10-25: first dated public Snowflake content, the SCD article (LinkedIn Pulse).
- 2024-04-03: phData blog post on Avro in Snowflake (phData). Employer-published content likely helped with nomination visibility (inference).
- 2025: named to the 2025 Data Superheroes (Medium roster; directory member-since tag 2025).
- 2025-11-01: speaks at a Data Superheroes user-group event (Jaipur event).
- 2026: renewed; listed among 15 India Data Superheroes (CXOToday). Then co-presents an official Snowflake hands-on lab on CoCo (Aug 2026).
- Read: the visible pre-2025 footprint is thin (two articles). The recognition likely rests on India user-group activity not fully indexed publicly, since India has a dense Superhero cluster tied to the Delhi/Jaipur/Pune chapters (inference). Her trajectory shifted toward AI-assisted tooling (CoCo, agentic migration, Cortex) only after becoming a Superhero (inference).
Notes
- Directory card (scraped 2026-09-29): Sr. Data Engineer, phData. Member-since tag: 2025. On the 2025 Medium roster. 2026 membership is corroborated by the CXOToday India list, not only presumed from the directory. See [[_roster-notes]].
- Identity: many same-name people (a Yash Technologies blog author, a JSW Paints manager, a Zenoti employee, a Medium lifestyle writer, and others). This page ties only content that names phData or is linked to the LinkedIn profile above. The Medium account @Priyaachauhan returned 403 and is not attributed to her.
- LinkedIn public view shows headline "Data Engineer at phData" and location Delhi; the phData position is listed under Bengaluru. Title on Snowflake pages is Sr./Senior Data Engineer.
- The "migrating data to cloud since 2019" line comes from a search-engine summary of her LinkedIn, not a fetched page; treat as medium confidence.
- AI focus: emerging, not primary. Her public writing is core data engineering (SCD, file formats); AI-adjacent work (CoCo lab, agentic migration/Cortex user-group topics) appears in 2026.
- Relevance to Ben: the only phData Superhero, and her path shows a partner engineer can get in with a modest article count plus consistent regional user-group speaking; phData's blog is a usable channel (inference).
- Her earliest dated talk found (2025-11-01) postdates the 2025 roster announcement (2025-02-05).
- Open: Snowflake Community forum activity, SnowPro certs, and whether she spoke at World Tour Delhi/Mumbai are unknown.
Sources
- Snowflake Data Superheroes directory, APJ
- Celebrating the 2025 Data Superheroes (Medium)
- CXOToday: 15 India leaders in 2026 Data Superheroes
- LinkedIn profile (public view)
- Implementing SCDs in Snowflake (LinkedIn Pulse, 2023-10-25)
- Mastering Avro File Handling ... With Snowflake (phData blog, 2024-04-03)
- Snowflake Jaipur Data Superheroes virtual event, 2025-11-01
- Snowflake virtual hands-on lab: Accelerate Data Product Delivery with Snowflake CoCo, 2026-08-05
- Snowflake Delhi User Group chapter page