About

Priya Narayana is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer at Target with a passion for learning new technologies and working on emerging trends. She has a strong background in analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation covering multiple technologies. Priya is an incisive solution-oriented professional who maintains a positive attitude towards challenging environments. Priya holds a Master's degree in Software Engineering from PSG Tech and was awarded the Best All-rounder student award. She has presented her work in Hadoop at the APACHE HADOOP SUMMIT and IBM ICARE. With over 10 years of relevant experience, Priya has a deep understanding of data engineering, Hadoop, software engineering, Spark, MapReduce, SQL, Big Data, integration, Scala, Java, and Apache Hive. Prior to joining Target, Priya worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Visa, where she worked on the Advanced Acquirer Analytics platform to enrich merchant location information. She also certified acquiring banks data, which helped to enrich merchant information. Before that, she worked as a Software Engineer - Bigdata at Cognizant, where she explored ideas to bring BigMachine (Mainframe) to the Bigdata world. She developed parsing techniques for parsing complex Mainframe data, based on cobol logic, and processed fixed and variable length large data sets with redefine logic using mapreduce techniques. Priya's education history includes a Master of Technology (MTech) in Computer Software Engineering from PSG College of Technology and a B.Tech in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Adoor. She also completed her Higher Secondary education in Computer Science from TDHSS Alleppey, Kerala. Overall, Priya Narayana is a highly motivated and skilled Senior Data Engineer with a proven track record of success in multiple technologies. She is a valuable asset to any team and is always eager to learn and grow in her field.