About

GopalaRao Dirisala is an experienced Senior Software Engineer with over 11 years of experience in the information technology and services industry. Currently working at Apple as a Software Engineer - Big Data, GopalaRao is skilled in various technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Java, Big Data, and more. GopalaRao has previously worked at Walmart as a Senior Software Engineer - Big Data, where he was responsible for building and maintaining next-generation pharmacy (NGP) audit data pipelines. He utilized technologies such as Java, Spark, Hadoop, Hive, and Azure to build spark batch jobs to move NGP system and application audit data from various locations in Azure cloud to HDFS and then downstream systems. The audit data in HDFS was useful for adhoc querying (hive) and data retention. GopalaRao has also worked at Applift, where he built the dynamic retargeting product from scratch. He developed and maintained product feed, audience data management, and ad-serving systems using GO, Kinesis Firehose, Redshift, Java, Aerospike, S3, and SQS. He created an audience data management system that included data partners integration, saving the user in-app activity data, and user segmentation. He also provided the flexibility to segment the users using user in-app activity. Additionally, he developed a product feed crawling and caching system that downloaded and parsed advertiser-specific product feeds. GopalaRao holds a M.Tech degree in Computer Science from IITG and a B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from JBiet. He is skilled in various technologies such as Spark, AWS, HDFS, SQL, Kafka, Azure, Apache Hive, Redis, NoSQL, Hadoop, Puppet, C, Data Scientist, MySQL, Search, Integration, Amazon Athena, Elastic Search, and Spring. Overall, GopalaRao is a strong engineering professional with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. He is a valuable asset to any organization he works for.