About

Venkatesh Halli is a highly skilled Data Engineer with over 6 years of experience in the field. Currently working as a Tech Lead - Data Engineering at viooh, Venkatesh is responsible for designing and implementing Big Data pipelines to process TBs of events from over 1 billion mobile devices. Prior to his current role, Venkatesh worked as a Data Engineer II at helpshift, where he was involved in tracking 50+ metrics to bill customers using data pipelines spread across multiple data centers. He also re-architected a real-time streaming pipeline for obfuscating data on-the-fly for GDPR compliance using Kafka, Apache Storm, HBase, and AWS S3. Venkatesh's experience also includes designing and implementing a resilient, customer-facing data API using Clojure, which serves hundreds of TBs per month. Venkatesh is a strong advocate for in-house learning and regularly runs company-wide Lightning Talks, organizes public Meetups for Pune Clojure Users Group and the Emacs Users Group, and has been a part of the organizing team of the IN/Clojure 2020 Conference. He proactively mentors his teammates to bring them up to speed with various big data concepts outside of on-boarding. Venkatesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University. His technical skills include Data Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Clojure, Big Data, Mobile, AWS, Apache Storm, Spark, Kafka, ETL, and Apache Hive. With 6.45 years of relevant experience, Venkatesh is a highly skilled and knowledgeable Data Engineer with a passion for learning and sharing his knowledge with others.