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Akhil Prasad

Skilled in practices around Data Warehousing, Data Marts, Data Models, ETL & ELT for large-scale data management.


Built batch & streaming pipelines using Spark & Hadoop ecosystem capable of handling terabytes of data on day-to-day basis.


Worked on Cloud migration of thousands of pipelines (On-Primm to GCP).


Part of the Data Management team, involved in Automation & Support, Platform Engineering, and Data Governance activities.


Build & managed Data Pipeline frameworks (using Python, Scala) used for data ingestion activities across teams/markets.


Expert in writing Optimized SQL queries for OLTP & OLAP workloads using Indexes, Join, Aggregate, Window functions, CTEs, and more.


Worked in Retail, Banking, Financial Services & Insurance domain.


Collaborated on quarterly roadmaps, optimizing resource allocation and ensuring clear stakeholder communication.


Led sprint planning, prioritizing backlog, managing team capacity, and providing technical guidance for timely & high-quality delivery.

  • Role

    Senior Data Engineer

  • Years of Experience

    7 years

Skillsets

  • PostgreSQL
  • ETL pipelines
  • Data Modeling
  • data marts
  • cloud platforms
  • Cloud Migration
  • CI/CD
  • Big Data
  • Tableau
  • SQL optimization
  • Spark SQL
  • Spark
  • Scala
  • Power BI
  • Data Warehousing
  • Kafka
  • Jenkins
  • Java
  • Hive
  • Hadoop
  • Git
  • Docker
  • C++
  • Airflow
  • Python - 6 Years
  • Snowflake - 1 Years
  • PySpark - 6 Years

Professional Summary

7Years
  • Oct, 2023 - Present1 yr 10 months

    Senior Data Engineer

    Walmart Global Tech India
  • Feb, 2022 - Oct, 20231 yr 8 months

    Data Engineer - III

    Walmart Global Tech India
  • Sep, 2018 - Jan, 20223 yr 4 months

    Data Engineer - Associate

    Infosys Limited

Applications & Tools Known

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    Spark

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    Hadoop

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    GCP

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    SQL

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    Python

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    Scala

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    Java

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    C

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    C++

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    Bash scripting

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    Hive

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    HDFS

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    Sqoop

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    Kafka

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    Kafka Connect

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    Oracle

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    MSSQL

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    MySQL

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    Dremio

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    PostgreSQL

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    Snowflake

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    Dataproc

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    Batch

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    IAM

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    BigQuery

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    Airflow

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    Looker

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    Power BI

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    Tableau

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    Apache Superset

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    Docker

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    Jenkins

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    Git

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    Maven

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    Excel

Work History

7Years

Senior Data Engineer

Walmart Global Tech India
Oct, 2023 - Present1 yr 10 months
    Led data pipeline frameworks, supported data lake monitoring, optimized Airflow, implemented CI/CD components, and mentored junior engineers.

Data Engineer - III

Walmart Global Tech India
Feb, 2022 - Oct, 20231 yr 8 months
    Built scala Spark app for fraud detection, optimized migrating pipelines to GCP, and collaborated with data science team for model integration.

Data Engineer - Associate

Infosys Limited
Sep, 2018 - Jan, 20223 yr 4 months
    Performed data ingestion, cleaned data, optimized pipelines, and created technical documentation for solutions.

Achievements

  • Achieved a 70% reduction in pipeline creation effort.
  • Empowered L1 support personnel for independent initial failure analysis.

Education

  • B.C.A

    GGSIPU (Delhi) (2018)
  • 12th

    KV JNU (Delhi) (2015)
  • 10th

    KV Vasant Kunj (Delhi) (2013)

Certifications

  • Az-900 - microsoft certified azure fundamentals

  • Dp-900 - microsoft certified azure data fundamentals