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GuruPraveen V A is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Labs India with over 17 years of relevant experience. He is an expert in Java, Scala, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, REST, Web, Airflow, and Architecture. He is also Scala EPFL Certified, which demonstrates his expertise in the language. At Walmart, GuruPraveen is responsible for driving technical tracks on Spark adoption, Cloud migration, and Digital transformation across Pricing, Replenishment, and Data partnership teams. He played a key role in driving the initiative across GDO to migrate all existing hive/traditional ETL to Spark and developed the SparkETLArchetype framework to catalyze the Spark adoption. For his contributions, he received the SPOT award for Spark elevation. GuruPraveen has also worked on several projects at Walmart and other companies. He was a Senior Engineer-Development at Walmart where he worked on Flight Deck, an advanced business analytics system to reduce the merchant’s analysis time. He also trained the team on Spark and mentored them during design, development, and delivery of MVP. For his contributions, he won the Hackathon (Operational Excellence) for instrumenting Dr. Elephant. At Thomson Reuters, GuruPraveen was a Lead Software Engineer where he worked on several projects, including SNI – Strategic Novus Ingest and SDP – Social Data Platform. For his work, he won several awards, including the Hall of fame Q2 2017 award for troubleshooting data skew and time lag in the application and the INSPIRE award for the above work. GuruPraveen's technical skills include Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, Spark, Scala, Apache Airflow, Hadoop, Kafka, ETL, Web, Java, Apache Hive, and Big Data. He is a highly motivated individual with a passion for technology and a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions.