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ACHUTH BALAN

Bangalore

Summary

Senior Data Engineer with 6+ years experience delivering scalable big data solutions for financial and e-commerce sectors. Led multiple teams of engineers through agile sprints, code reviews, and technical guidance as a subject matter expert in Spark, Azure, Kafka, Airflow and other Big data tools. Proven track record in cloud migrations, ML product development, and optimizing pipeline efficiency and costs.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Data Engineer

Wipro Ltd.
03.2024 - Current
  • Led the design and implementation of scalable big data architectures for HSBC's credit lending financial systems.
  • Managed and mentored a team of 15 engineers, overseeing daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and task allocation to ensure project milestones are met on schedule.
  • Served as the primary technical point of contact, resolving complex challenges and guiding team members on architecture, code optimization, and data engineering best practices.
  • Conducted detailed code reviews, merged team contributions (Python & PySpark), and maintained high coding standards for production releases.
  • Developed, deployed, and optimized Spark data pipelines leveraging Airflow orchestration and Jenkins CI/CD, processing high-volume financial transactions efficiently.
  • Consistently enhanced data processing performance, reducing delivery times and improving solution reliability for banking workloads.
  • Improved the overall SLA of existing finance ML models by minimum 20 % using spark optimization techniques.

Data Engineer

Argoid Analytics Pvt Ltd.
07.2021 - 03.2024
  • Architected and deployed data pipelines (Python, Scala, Spark, Kafka) powering ML-driven recommendations for e-commerce clients.
  • Integrated diverse data sources (APIs: Shopify, Magento, PostgreSQL, GraphQL) for seamless ingestion and transformation.
  • Implemented automated workflows (Airflow, Jenkins, YARN) reducing maintenance overhead and ensuring robust CI/CD.
  • Delivered a revenue-generating Analytical Dashboard product (Shopify Integrated) for live data analytics and reporting.
  • Achieved 40% improvement in resource utilization via code and workflow optimization.
  • Led a team of 8 engineers delivering high impact projects on time.

Risk Analyst

PWC - US (PriceWaterHouseCoopers)
01.2019 - 12.2021
  • Automated data extraction and reporting with advanced Excel and VBA, streamlining analyst workflows globally.
  • Selected as top-five finalist in a global PWC hackathon for innovative automation and analytics solutions.

Education

PG Diploma - Quantum Computing and Machine Learning

IIT-Delhi
01.2023

PG Diploma - Machine Learning and AI

IIIT-Bangalore
01.2021

Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering

PES University
Bengaluru, India
01.2018

PCM-C -

Shri Mahaveer Jain College
Bengaluru, India
01.2014

Accomplishments

  • Programming: Python, Scala, PySpark, SQL, Shell Scripting, VBA
  • Big Data & Cloud: Apache Spark, Hadoop, YARN, Kafka, Azure Data Factory, Amazon S3, Nifi, GCP services, Databricks
  • Orchestration/ CI CD: Airflow DAGs, Jenkins, GitHub
  • Data Storage: Postgres, Elasticsearch, Hive
  • API & Streaming: REST APIs, GraphQL, Kafka
  • Visualization: PowerBI, Tableau, Redash
  • Machine Learning & AI: ML Pipelines, NLP, Deep Learning (NNs), GenAI (Google Gemini, ChatGPT), Agent & Tools, Langchain, Quantum Algorithms for ML
  • Tools: Presto, Advanced Excel

Certification

  • Cloud Data Engineer Professional Certificate, Google 2025
  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate, Databricks, 2025
  • PG Diploma in Machine Learning and AI , IIIT-Bangalore, 2021
  • PG Diploma in Quantum Computing & ML , IIT-Delhi, 2023


Timeline

Senior Data Engineer

Wipro Ltd.
03.2024 - Current

Data Engineer

Argoid Analytics Pvt Ltd.
07.2021 - 03.2024

Risk Analyst

PWC - US (PriceWaterHouseCoopers)
01.2019 - 12.2021

PG Diploma - Quantum Computing and Machine Learning

IIT-Delhi

PG Diploma - Machine Learning and AI

IIIT-Bangalore

Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering

PES University

PCM-C -

Shri Mahaveer Jain College

Projects and Achievements

  • GenAI POC: Pioneered a GenAI (Google Gemini) meta-data generator for fashion recommendations—accelerated data enrichment pipelines.
  • Analytical Dashboard: Led a team of engineers to develop a analytical dashboard with automated pipelines integrating into Shopify.
  • Team Leadership: Mentored and led data analysts, business analysts and engineers, upskilling teams on Spark, Scala, and Python best practices for production deployments.
  • Multiple national-level Olympiad and hackathon awards , demonstrating advanced analytical skills and innovation.

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