About

Gunish Jha is a skilled Data Engineer II with over 6 years of experience in Spark, Big Data, AWS, and Machine Learning. Currently employed at Expedia, Gunish is responsible for delivering big data, data engineering, Apache Spark, and ETL projects for the Data Systems & Insights team. He has extensive experience in stakeholder management and solution engineering for mission-critical applications. In his current role, Gunish is actively involved in design, development, data modeling, orchestration, and stakeholder management for the data platform team. He has developed REST and GraphQL-based web applications built on the Spring Boot platform and has troubleshooted, debugged, and fixed issues in cost platform solutions. Gunish has participated in code reviews, design and architecture discussions/reviews, and provided engineering support for integrations. He has collaborated with product management and cross-functional teams for requirements gathering, downstream dependency resolutions, and design finalizations. Gunish has also engaged in managing agile sprint activities, including team sprint status checks, sprint board management, and product releases. Before joining Expedia, Gunish worked at Impetus as a Software Engineer. He worked on large-scale design and optimization challenges for data engineering. Gunish has also worked on implementations of migration projects from legacy DW systems (Vertica/Teradata/Netezza) to CDH/HDP/Azure/AWS. He rewrote and optimized all components of source ingestion data pipelines and migrated SQL-based applications to tuned PySpark/Spark SQL and beeline scripts. Gunish has a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Netaji Subhas University of Technology, East Campus. He also holds a Class XII degree in Science from Vivekanand Public School, Anand Vihar, Delhi. Gunish is proficient in Data Engineering, AWS, Spark, Big Data, ML, SQL, product manager, Spring Boot, Spring, Web, ETL, Software Engineer, and Azure. With his relevant experience of 6.10 years, Gunish is a valuable asset to any organization.