About

Hazarath Darapaneni is a skilled Data Engineer with over 17 years of experience in data integration and analytics. Currently working as a Data Engineer at Electronic Arts, Hazarath has a proven track record of transforming large, unmanageable data sets into competitive advantages for his clients. Hazarath has extensive experience in data integration from multiple areas and connecting various data points to support competitive analytics. He has led the data integration process life cycle from requirements gathering to business analytics and has developed re-usable frameworks for data integration processes to integrate data sources based on metadata. Hazarath has played a major role in data acquisition, transformation, and analysis at Electronic Arts, where he has worked on customer analytics projects. He has developed data extraction and data translation frameworks to acquire data from various sources and map HDFS files to tables in Hive with pre-defined serde from Apache. Hazarath has also worked on a sports pub project, where he gathered data from all sports titles to build a data hub and expedite analytics. Prior to his current role, Hazarath worked as a Senior Data Engineer at Groupon, where he was involved in mobile analytics, attribution, and creating a global data model. He used Hive and Spark to create UDFs to parse referrer URL or full URL to get utm parameters to derive traffic source based on rules defined by the marketing team. Hazarath began his career as a Software Engineer at Covansys, where he translated business requirements into Informatica mappings and developed complex mappings using the Informatica Power Center Suite. He also developed reusable transformations and shortcuts to share different mappings. Hazarath holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from JNTU. He has an extensive tech stack, including data engineering, Spark, AWS, GCP, Hadoop, Scala, Kafka, SQL, CI/CD, Docker, Python, HDFS, Snowflake, Search, MySQL, Cassandra, Apache Hive, mobile, web, Golang, and Elastic Search.