About

Prabhu Thiruvambalam is a Chief Manager at Samsung with over 13 years of experience in Data Warehousing and Data Engineering. He is a Scrum Alliance - Certified ScrumMaster and has designed and built critical, complex, and high-volume data pipelines. Prabhu is proficient in Spark, Python, Scala, Hive, Teradata, Informatica, Airflow, AWS, Cassandra CQL, and Kafka. Prabhu has worked in various industries such as E-Commerce, Health Care, and Financial Regulations. He has a proven track record of managing people and projects. Prabhu has also played a key role in platform migration and on-premise to cloud migration projects. In his current role at Samsung, Prabhu is responsible for designing and building data pipelines. He has also worked on streaming data consumption from message queues and reading data from APIs and Cassandra. Prabhu has worked on a team of 6 members and has experience in handling people and project management. Prior to his current role, Prabhu has worked at PayPal as a Member of Technical Staff and at Groupon as a Software Development Engineer IV. At Groupon, he designed, developed, and implemented complex incremental data pipelines in Spark. Prabhu also worked on Teradata performance optimization and reduced CPU and IO consumption for resource-intensive pipeline queries. He has experience in designing and implementing complex data pipelines in AWS EMR using PySpark and orchestrating data pipelines using Airflow. Prabhu holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from RVS School of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul. He is proficient in AWS, Apache Airflow, Spark, Data Engineering, Cassandra, Big Data, Software Engineering, Kafka, Mobile, Infra, Python, Scala, and Apache Hive. Overall, Prabhu has 15.54 years of relevant experience and is a highly skilled and experienced data engineer with expertise in designing and building critical, complex, and high-volume data pipelines.