About

Prashanth Rapolu is a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer with extensive experience in Data Engineering, Data Analytics, and Management. He is currently leading multiple Data Engineering teams at The Home Depot, where he is spearheading the development of cutting-edge Marketing frameworks that enable marketing at scale, driving more than $50B in annual revenue. Prashanth is a key contributor to business decisions, working closely with Strategic Marketing Leadership to implement new strategies that drive marketing effectiveness. He partners with Data Science, Analytics, and IT teams to build visualizations for executive-level KPI reporting, while simultaneously leading his team in Agile settings to manage and build data products to production. Prashanth is highly skilled in architecting end-to-end cloud-native data solutions, building state-of-the-art cost-effective data pipelines with logging, alerting, and monitoring mechanisms in both Finance and Marketing Domains. He specializes in data strategy, exploratory data analysis, extracting insights, data visualization, machine learning, hiring, and building teams, guiding teams to success by focusing on business strategy. Prior to joining The Home Depot, Prashanth worked as a Data Engineer II at Decooda, where he successfully led a team of three in building ETL transformations and designed a relational data model for an NLP project. He also improved the efficiency of customer service agents by fine-tuning the chatbot system using BERT trained on clients’ chat data. Prashanth holds a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Osmania University. He is highly proficient in Data Engineering, ETL, Snowflake, SQL, AWS, BERT, ML, Data Scientist, NLP, Scikit, Data Warehouse, Python, Kafka, and Senior Software Engineering. With 3.86 years of relevant experience, Prashanth is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer with a proven track record of success in the field.