About

Raghu Nittala is a Senior Staff Data Engineer at Solarwinds with over 11 years of relevant experience in the field of Data Engineering and Machine Learning. He holds a Master's degree in Data Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Raghu has extensive experience in applying methodologies such as Random Forests, CART, Bayesian methods, etc. on monitoring, classification, and financial research projects. He is proficient in performing exploratory and targeted data analyses and determining technical approaches to be used on major challenges. Raghu is skilled in communicating technical analyses and results to business management effectively. Raghu is a hands-on expert in statistical/ML tools like R, Python, KNIME, and text mining tools like GATE. He is successful and proficient in distributed computing systems like Hadoop and has hands-on expertise on all the Hadoop components. Raghu is an excellent team player with a can-do attitude, self-motivated, and has strong interpersonal and communication skills. In his past roles, Raghu has worked as a Senior Data Engineer at Ericsson and as an Independent Contractor - Data Science at Fidelity. At Fidelity, he was part of the Data Science team and worked on predictive analytics and multiple classification models. Raghu's specialties include Machine Learning and Data Mining, Analytics, ML Tools - Python/R Development, Text Analytics - Named Entity Recognition, noun chunking, POS taggers, sentence/token splitters, and Hadoop - Hive, Pig, HBase, Sqoop, Flume. Raghu's education history includes a Master's degree in Data Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, a Certificate in Engineering Excellence (CPEE) from the International School of Engineering (INSOFE), and a B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada. He completed his schooling from SVSM Best Convent High School. Raghu's tech stack includes Data Engineering, SQL, ML, Hadoop, Python, SVM, Parts-of-speech, test, Research Scientist, Integration, Data Scientist, and Apache Hive. Raghu is a highly skilled data engineer with a strong track record of delivering high-quality results.