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Karthik Karavadi

Karthik Karavadi

Summary

Experienced Data Engineer with 10+ years of expertise in ETL development, data integration, and pipeline orchestration. Skilled in data modeling, data quality assurance, database performance optimization, and workflow automation for actionable insights through analytics and visualization. Proficient in leveraging technical skills to streamline processes and improve efficiency.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Data Engineer

EMAAR
02.2025 - Current
  • Leading the migration of data workflows from Informatica PC to IIDC, ensuring seamless transition and
    optimized performance.
    • Troubleshot and resolved bugs in existing Informatica workflows and monitors, enhancing reliability
    and reducing downtime.
    • Supported and maintained Airflow orchestration for data pipelines, ensuring efficient scheduling and
    execution.
    • Provided ongoing support for Snowflake Data Warehouse, ensuring high availability, performance
    tuning, and efficient data management.

Data Analytics Engineer

Pepsico
01.2023 - Current
  • Established a seamless data pipeline integrating diverse cloud storage sources for unified data ingestion
  • Improved data quality and consistency by 100%, leveraging DBT for robust data transformations
  • Boosted efficiency by 70% through streamlining task orchestration and scheduling with Airflow, minimizing manual intervention
  • Utilized Snowflake and GCP Data Warehousing for scalable, cost-effective advanced analytics and reporting
  • Designed and automated end-to-end data pipelines with Cloud Composer, orchestrating PySpark jobs on Google Cloud Dataproc for real-time analytics in BigQuery

Senior Data Lead

Ernst & Young
01.2021 - 01.2023
  • Built a data warehouse on Azure Synapse with Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) transformations, improving customer data accuracy by 95%
  • Automated data ingestion from multiple sources using Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines, reducing manual data entry by 70%
  • Optimized Azure Synapse performance by 60% through indexing, query optimization, and partitioning
  • Enhanced PySpark job performance by optimizing using broadcast joins, data partitioning, caching, and filter pushdown, improving processing speed by 40%
  • Implemented a hybrid data warehouse model combining Inmon's top-down architecture with Kimball's dimensional modeling, optimizing both enterprise-wide integration and subject-specific reporting

Technical Data Engineer

State Street Corp
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Leveraged Alteryx for efficient extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of client data, significantly boosting processing efficiency and reducing data handling time
  • Developed and optimized complex SQL queries to ensure robust data quality, supporting detailed, in-depth analysis and accurate decision-making
  • Designed data models and documented data flows, strengthening system architecture and promoting transparency, leading to improved data integrity and streamlined processes

Big Data Engineer

Infosys
01.2017 - 01.2020
  • Migrated data from Oracle to HDFS using Sqoop/Talend for efficient extraction and loading
  • Optimized Hive and Impala queries to enhance performance and shorten data processing times
  • Developed and maintained ETL Talend/Sqoop pipelines, integrating Oracle data with Hive and Impala for analytics
  • Executed data transformation and cleansing using HiveQL and Python, preparing data for reporting

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering

K L University
Vijayawada, AP, India
04-2013

Skills

  • Airflow
  • DBT
  • SQL
  • Informatics IICS
  • Pyspark
  • Azure Synapse
  • Databricks
  • ADF
  • Data Modelling
  • Snowflake
  • GCP
  • CloudComposer
  • Data Proc
  • Big query
  • Github
  • Hive
  • Impala
  • Sqoop
  • PowerBI

Personal Information

Nationality: Indian

Languages

English
Hindi
Telugu

Timeline

Senior Data Engineer

EMAAR
02.2025 - Current

Data Analytics Engineer

Pepsico
01.2023 - Current

Senior Data Lead

Ernst & Young
01.2021 - 01.2023

Technical Data Engineer

State Street Corp
01.2020 - 01.2021

Big Data Engineer

Infosys
01.2017 - 01.2020

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering

K L University
Karthik Karavadi