About

Santhosh Kumar Dhanasekaran is a highly skilled Data Engineer with a passion for expanding his knowledge in the field of Web and Web security. He has a strong background in Electronics and Communication Engineering and Computer Science, having completed his B.E from Kongu Engineering College and his higher secondary education from Holy Cross Matriculation Higher Secondary School. Santhosh is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and holds six Azure certifications, including Azure Data Scientist Associate, Azure Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure, Azure Fundamentals, Azure AI Fundamentals, Azure Data Fundamentals, and Power Platform Fundamentals. He is also proficient in programming languages such as Python and Scala and technologies like Spark and Apache Hive. Santhosh has won eight hackathons, including the Deepgram X DEV Hackathon 2022, Microsoft Azure Trail Hackathon 2022, and Azure Developer Stories 2021. He is a public speaker and has presented at events such as AzConf 2022. He is also a YouTuber, with a channel called Late Night Code With Santhosh, where he shares his knowledge and expertise with others. Santhosh is currently working as a Data Engineer and Jr. Software Engineer at Cognizant, where he is responsible for building data pipelines for ingestion and improving data quality. He has previously worked as a Software Engineer Trainee, where he worked on migrating a Legacy Web Application to ASP.NET. In his leisure time, Santhosh actively participates in community events of GDG, GCD, and TensorFlow User Group and writes technical blogs on Medium and develops open-source projects to help budding developers. He is also an avid gamer and enjoys playing games such as Rocket League, CS:GO, R6, and COD: Mobile. Santhosh is a hardworking individual with a programmer brain and a gamer vein. He believes in the quote "Try Try until you reach the sky" and considers coders to be those who code to the core. He is always eager to catch up over coffee and discuss the latest trends and developments in the field of data engineering and software development.