About

Balaram Pradhan is a highly experienced Staff Data Engineer at Visa, with over 12 years of relevant experience in the field of Data Engineering. He is an expert in application development using Python, PLSQL, and shell script, with exposure to handling huge data volumes that span from Single node to clustered data systems. Balaram has a mastery of development in relational databases such as MY-SQL, DB2, and Oracle, and has delivered Business Intelligence solutions in the domain of Payment, Telecom, and Banking. He possesses solid computer science skills, including proficiency in OOP Concepts, DWH concepts, data structures, algorithms, operating systems fundamentals, and networking fundamentals. Balaram is language, platform, and technology agnostic, and will learn and use the right tool for the job. He has extensive experience with modern programming languages such as Python and PLSQL, operating systems such as Unix, Windows, and Mac platforms, BigData Technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, and Zookeeper, SQL Databases such as Oracle, DB2, and MySQL, and ETL Tools like Ab-Initio. Balaram has a particular interest in complex, real-time, high scale, enterprise-level solutions and applications such as dynamic programming, Metadata-driven applications, Microservice, and Generic re-usable coding, low latency high performance, high scale distributed systems, and hardware and software integrated solutions. He is currently working as a Senior Data Engineer at Visa, where he is serving as a Python Technical Lead and is emerging into data pipeline and microservice. Balaram has previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at RS Software and as an IT Analyst at TCS. His tech stack includes Data Engineering, SQL, Python, Microservices, ETL, Software Engineer, Spark, MySQL, Hadoop, Kafka, Backend, Senior Software Engineer, and Apache Hive. Balaram's extensive experience and skills in data engineering make him a valuable asset to any organization looking to develop and implement high-performance data solutions.