About

Pramod Toraskar is a Principal Data Engineer at Red Hat with over 13 years of relevant experience in the field of data engineering and automation. He is interested in open source tools, technologies, and frameworks and has a passion for mastering the latest technologies in the field. Pramod is a skilled Python-Django and web application developer with basic exposure to PHP, cloud computing (AWS), and a good understanding of software development (i.e. SDLC). He has strong communication skills, is a strong team player, an enthusiastic learner, sincere, and committed. At Red Hat, Pramod designs and builds data architectures for ingestion, processing, and surfacing data for large-scale data-intensive applications. He contributes more to have visible technical impact on key elements of marketing operation business, strategic direction, improving time-to-market, cost reduction, and/or address unmet needs. He leads and/or provides expertise to functional project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives. Pramod has previously worked as a Senior Application Developer (Marketing Data Applications) at Red Hat and as a Senior Software Engineer at Cybage. At Red Hat, he enhanced technical components of key marketing systems (marketing automation, CRM) used to plan and execute campaigns, and generate, distribute, and report on leads. At Cybage, he worked on various phases of product development life cycle in a variety of technical areas like design, prototyping, and development. He worked on programming languages like Python and Big data ecosystem tools such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Python, Flask, Nginx, Amazon Web Services like ELB, EC2, Kinesis, Redis, S3, EMR, Cassandra, Spark, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation, and intermediate experience in NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra. Pramod holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Maharashtra Academy of Engineering and Educational Research (MIT, Pune) and a Diploma in Computer Engineering from AISSMS Institute. He is proficient in data engineering, Python, SQL, AWS, web, Django, software engineering, NoSQL, MongoDB, PHP, MySQL, Salesforce, Javascript, Spark, Cassandra, Big Data, Redis, Hadoop, and Flask.