About

Naga Aravind BalaSubramanian is an experienced Staff Engineer in Data Platform with over 11 years of experience in the fintech and startup industry. He has a proven track record of building and leading teams across various products and platforms. Naga is well-versed in Java, Python, Scala, and big data technologies, as well as modern OLAP data stores such as Pinot, Druid, Elastic search, Kafka, Hadoop & HBase, Airflow, Postgres, spark, Flink, and Presto. Naga's experience includes analysis, design, and development of various cloud-native platform data pipeline components and distributed data-intensive applications with micro-services architecture. He has also migrated legacy monolith apps to modern cloud-native microservice architecture using AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker. Naga has developed a strong engineering culture and engineering practices around design, code quality, testing/automation, documentation, and deployment. Naga has managed several projects concurrently and demonstrated the ability to prioritize as per goals and strategies. He has experience in managing teams and building world-class highly scalable platforms. Naga has architected multiple projects for the Platform Infrastructure and Data Pipeline Teams at Brane Enterprises, where he worked as a Senior Architect (Staff Engineer). He also redesigned the insurance claim processing Orchestration system skeleton at Optum, where he worked as a Senior Software Engineer. Naga holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Anna University. He is proficient in AWS, Microservices, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, Java, Apache Airflow, Elastic Search, Hadoop, Search, test, Spring, Postgres, Docker, Big Data, Python, infra, Scala, SQL, Spring Boot, Azure, Backend, Data Engineering, and Apache Hive. Currently, Naga is working as a Principal Engineer at Ola, where he continues to leverage his expertise in data platform engineering to drive innovation and growth. With his extensive experience and skills, Naga is an asset to any organization looking to build scalable and robust data platforms.