About

Kedar Kodkani is a Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in software development and data engineering. He is proficient in Python, SQL, and NoSQL databases, and is an Azure Certified Data and AI Engineer. Kedar is passionate about writing clean code and documentation while maintaining a balance between reliability, maintainability, and performance. He is always eager to learn and improve his skills by reading forums and staying up-to-date with the latest tools, techniques, and frameworks. Kedar is a technology generalist and comfortable with multiple stacks. He has worked on various data-oriented projects and is currently involved in end-to-end design of performant APIs in Python and Node for a fintech company. He has experience in designing and optimizing Python-based data extraction systems and REST-callable scraping services on-demand in Azure with Azure Kubernetes Service. He has also designed and implemented Azure Function App, Event Hub-driven data extraction pipelines. Kedar has gathered and distilled requirements from clients for design and user story gathering into feature conversion for data model design. He has implemented business logic through SQL procedures and triggers to ingest PDF document data in a short timeframe into tables. Kedar is passionate about mentoring his junior engineers and occasionally learning from them as well. He is a technology enthusiast and loves reading Hackernews, dev.to, and Medium during his commutes. Kedar has previously worked as a Technology Consultant and Software Engineering Consultant, where he has developed web-based MIS systems, automated backup tools, and watermarker systems. Kedar holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from SIES College and is currently pursuing a Data Engineer for Shell certification from Udacity. His tech stack includes SQL, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Python, Azure, AI, NoSQL, Spark, AWS, Big Data, Javascript, infra, Selenium, Kubernetes, MySQL, Web, Microservices, ETL, and Flask. With 6.70 years of relevant experience, Kedar is a seasoned professional who is always eager to take on new challenges and contribute to the success of his team.