About

Akshay Kashyap is an accomplished Data Engineer with over 8 years of experience in the Financial Technology and Professional Services industry. He has a proven track record of designing, developing, and scaling data science platforms that process and analyze massive amounts of data every day. Akshay has a diverse portfolio of professional achievements, including spearheading a POC to process multi-terabyte ATMs-generated IoT data to diagnose machine health and predict imminent failure, reducing downtime and operational cost by millions of dollars. He has also orchestrated resilient ETL data pipelines onboarding 100+ alternative datasets and supporting production environment to facilitate mission-critical investment research and analytics for a New York-based Hedge Fund with ~$18 billion AUM. Akshay is highly skilled in Apache Airflow, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Snowflake Data Cloud, Hadoop, Teradata, Linux, Git, and Tableau. He has authored custom Apache Airflow sensors and operators, including writing custom Python libraries for exclusive internal use-cases. He has also re-engineered Airflow DAGs to optimize performance and migrated underlying datasets from AWS RedShift to Snowflake, reducing computing cost and significantly improving performance. In addition to his technical expertise, Akshay is a lifelong learner and is passionate about leveraging his expertise in the data space to discover insights and identify patterns that have real human impact. He has recruited, onboarded, and mentored innovative data professionals and software engineers. Akshay has worked as a Senior Associate - Data Engineering at Cians Analytics, where he designed and orchestrated resilient data pipelines of alternative datasets to fuel mission-critical financial research platforms. He has also worked as an Associate - Data Engineering at Cians Analytics, where he acquired, transformed, and deployed production-level scalable data solutions for optimized data utilization to support data science projects. Akshay holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science (MCA) from GGSIPU and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (BCA) from GGSIPU. He is highly skilled in Data Engineering, AWS, Apache Airflow, Snowflake, Python, Data Scientist, Research Scientist, Hadoop, ETL, Web, and infra. Akshay has 7.86 years of relevant experience in the field.