About

Poulami Bala is a skilled Data Engineer with a focus on Smart Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence at Micron Technology, Inc. With over 6 years of relevant experience, Poulami has worked with some of the top companies in the industry, including Deloitte and Cognizant. Poulami's technical expertise includes a wide range of skills such as Hadoop, Spark, SQL, Python, Apache Hive, Big Data, HDFS, Kafka, ETL, GCP, Apache Airflow, MapReduce, Scala, test, Jupyter, Databricks, ML, Data Scientist, and Jenkins. She has extensive experience in the Big Data ecosystem and its various components such as SPARK, HDFS, HIVE, PIG, Sqoop, and Phoenix. Poulami has a good understanding of Hadoop Architecture and its components such as HDFS, Job, and MapReduce concepts. She has experience in ingesting different file formats like CSV and JSON and fixed width files using Pyspark and Pig Latin scripts. Poulami has exposure in writing PIG Latin scripts and Hive UDF’s to perform various transformations to pre-process data. She has knowledge of Oozie and Zena scheduler to manage Hadoop jobs in PROD environment. Poulami has a good understanding of Spark Core and RDD concepts. She has knowledge in developing applications in Spark using Scala/Python with RDD’s and Dataframes to load data from different file formats. She has used SQL queries in SPARK to generate various insights based on KPI’S as per business requirements. Poulami has experience in suggesting the minimal number of resources per job run in Production for optimal allocation and maximum throughput. She also has exposure in working in Agile setups, sharing best practices, and improving processes within and across sprint teams. She constantly collaborates with high-performing teams and individuals throughout the firm to accomplish common goals. Poulami holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from St. Thomas College of Engineering & Technology, Kolkata. She completed her schooling from Delhi Public School, Ruby Park, Kolkata.