About

Avinash Potnuru is a Senior Data Engineer at Reliance Jio with 12.12 years of relevant experience in the field of Data Engineering, Azure, MySQL, AI, SQL, ML, Java, Software Engineering, Python, Kafka, and Backend. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science and an MSc (Hons) in Economics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Goa Campus. Avinash has been working as a Senior Data Engineer at SymphonyAI for the last two years, where he has been a part of the data team of an AI-enabled conversational chatbot. He has worked on developing different products like Ad Server, Affiliate Platform, and Survey Management Platform at Kratos Ads Pvt Ltd for more than three years. Before that, he worked as a Software Developer 2 in the MySQL engineering team, where he was mostly involved in developing and maintaining an in-house framework for new features in MySQL using Java and Perl. Prior to this, Avinash worked as an intern at NetApp for 11 months, where he developed tools in Perl for the team's internal projects. At SymphonyAI, Avinash developed a Python-based configuration-driven framework that ingests data from SQL and API sources and performs transformations. He used different Azure components like Azure SQL, Azure Warehouse, ServiceBus, Azure Function, Azure Webapp, Data Factory, Azure batch, etc., to develop the solution. At Kratos Ads Pvt Ltd, Avinash worked as a Core back-end Java developer in Ad Server Development, where he processed ad requests and served the best possible ads to users based on targeting and user dimensions. He was also involved in developing an Affiliate Management System that enabled advertisers to reach their target audience through multiple affiliates. Additionally, he worked on a Survey Management System that distributes user traffic from various resources into multiple surveys based on quotas and targets. Avinash also worked on developing REST API for an Android application named Kuber. He also worked on a generic Event collection system using Kafka and PostgreSQL, which stored, archived, and cleaned multiple events throughout the project life cycle and a reporting system that computed daily/hourly reports.