About

Suri Babu Veernapu is an experienced data engineer with over 6 years of experience in building cloud-native robust and scalable data infrastructure. He has expertise in building batch/streaming ETLs, data modelling, and setting up and optimizing query engines. Suri is skilled in Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka, Kinesis, Data Modelling in Redshift/BigQuery, RDBMS, and NoSQL. He is proficient in Scala, Java, SQL, and Python programming languages. Suri graduated from IIT Hyderabad with majors in Computer Science and Engineering. He is currently working as a Data Engineer-3 at slice. In his current role, he is responsible for building and maintaining data infrastructure and pipelines. He has also worked as a Senior Data Engineer at unacademy, where he was responsible for building a data lake, ingesting raw data from sources like RDBMS, APIs, and event streams(kinesis), Spark ETLs to process raw data into structured Hudi tables using schema evolution, data validation, and integrating Hive to serve lake house queries from tableau, airflow, and supports lineage tracking, data cataloging, auto recovery, dull observability. Suri has also worked as a Software Developer Engineer II at sigmoid, where he was responsible for building numerous pipelines ingesting up to billions of impressions in near real-time using Spark and migrating Spark and Snowflake ETLs to BigQuery. He also developed a search engine to filter high cardinality dimensions from fact tables using ElasticSearch. Suri's tech stack includes data engineering, Spark, SQL, ETL, infra, Hadoop, NoSQL, Kafka, Apache Airflow, Apache Hive, software engineering, Python, Scala, Java, test, data science, Elastic Search, search, AWS, Snowflake, Kubernetes, Javascript, microservices, GCP, and integration. With his relevant experience of 6.7 years, Suri is a highly skilled and experienced data engineer capable of delivering high-quality solutions to complex data engineering problems.