About

Vijayakumar Arunachalam is a Research Associate and Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Data Engineering. He is currently working at C1X Inc as a Data Engineer, where he is responsible for creating ETL pipelines using Apache Airflow for batch and streaming processes, as well as developing Kibana and Tableau dashboards. With over 5 years of experience in the IT industry, Vijayakumar has worked on web and mobile application development. He also has 2 years of experience working on the Big Data Hadoop ecosystem, including Hive, Spark, and Snowflake. Vijayakumar is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences from Anna University, where he is researching reinforcement learning, behavior cloning, and imitation learning in autonomous vehicle-based computer vision and video processing using machine learning and deep learning processes. Prior to his current role, Vijayakumar co-founded Fastrand Technologies, where he worked as a Product Manager and Technical Team Member. He also worked as a Software Developer Trainee at Wiredelta, where he developed front-end applications using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery. Vijayakumar holds a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences from Anna University, an M.Tech. in Computer Science from SRM University, and a B.E. in Computer Science from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology. He completed his higher secondary education in Computer Science from Perks Matriculation Higher Secondary School. Vijayakumar's technical skills include data engineering, research scientist, software engineering, reinforcement learning, computer vision, snowflake, deep learning, Spark, Apache Airflow, big data, ML, Hadoop, ETL, mobile, web, product manager, Apache Hive, Javascript, and frontend. With 9.53 years of relevant experience, Vijayakumar is a highly skilled and knowledgeable professional in the field of data engineering and machine learning.