About

Kushal L. is a highly experienced Data Engineer with expertise in Big Data, AWS, Spark, Hadoop, Hive, SQL, Python, Scala, Airflow, Data Pipelines, Pyspark, Spark Streaming, Sqoop, Hudi, Data Modelling, Data Warehousing, and consulting. He is currently working as a Lead Engineer at Airtel Africa Digital Labs, leading a data-driven product that is being built from scratch and is aimed to be scalable and replicable across 14 OpCos. He is an efficient team leader and mentor with a history of managing multiple squads and providing a data-driven strategic approach. Kushal has extensive experience in various domains, including Retail and Telecom, and has built data pipelines from scratch with a focus on data frameworks. Kushal has expertise in distributed computing technologies such as Hadoop, HDFS, Yarn, and Spark and programming languages such as Python and Scala. He is skilled in data modelling techniques such as Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, and established modern data lake. Kushal is also experienced in operating systems such as Linux and Unix, development tools such as JIRA, and databases such as Postgres, MongoDB, and Oracle Exadata. He follows Agile/Scrum methodologies and is proficient in Gitlab, BitBucket, CICD, and Cloud (AWS). Kushal has migrated Data Solutions on legacy systems to Big Data Stack and has published articles on Big Data Architecture and Data Engineering 101. He is open to hearing about exciting opportunities in meaningful industries, more tech connections, and both mentor/mentee relationships. Kushal has worked as a Lead Data Developer and Senior Data Developer at Dunnhumby in the past and holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science from Netaji Subhas University of Technology. He completed his schooling from St. Francis de Sales Public School, Delhi. Kushal has relevant experience of 9.71 years and has a Github profile showcasing his work.