About

Lakshmi Areti is a Senior Data Engineer at Microsoft, based in Atlanta, GA. With over 15 years of experience in the field of data engineering, Lakshmi has a strong working knowledge of cutting edge technologies like Hadoop ecosystems HDFS, YARN, Map Reduce, Spark, Scala, Hive, Sqoop, Python 3.0, Data Stage, and Cloud technologies (Google Cloud Platform and AWS). She manages a team of professional service consultants responsible for projects in the above technologies and leads projects for agile transformation, assisting businesses to increase productivity. Lakshmi's ability to facilitate the exchange of information with all management levels in an easy and transparent manner, coupled with her strong organizational skills, make her an asset to any team. She possesses superior analytical, troubleshooting, team building, and presentation skills, which have been honed through her experience working across multiple companies both large and small. Lakshmi is a Certified Developer in Amazon Web Services and has been trained in Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer by Coursera and SAS CI Tool for Query building and Optimization. She has been recognized for her outstanding performance with an award from Microsoft, as well as two Macy's Make Magic Awards for Team Player and Innovations and Ideas. Lakshmi's past experience includes working as Vice President at JP Morgan and Senior Data Engineer at The Home Depot. At The Home Depot, she worked with a technology stack that included Google Cloud Big Query, Data Flow, Cloud Composer, AirFlow, DAGs, Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline, and SNOW (Service Now). Lakshmi holds a B Tech degree in Computer Science from Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology. Her tech stack includes Data Engineering, AWS, HDFS, Spark, Hadoop, Web, Python, Scala, Apache Hive, Apache Airflow, CI/CD, and Jenkins.