Megha Rama Shesha
Data Solution Engineering Senior Specialist
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced software developer specializing in Big Data and Data Science with a strong computer science background. Proven expertise in the big data ecosystem, machine learning, and building lakehouses using Databricks. Extensive experience in building large-scale data warehouses and data marts for information processing. Thrives in a collaborative work culture that values teamwork, ownership, and initiative.
2+ years of leading, solution designing, optimizing and unblocking technical issues for the team.
2+ years building solutions using Azure Databricks
5+ years of experience building data solutions using Spark/Scala.
3+ years of experience building solutions using Informatica/SQL
1+ years of experience in solving real-world data analytics problems by applying techniques of NLP, regression, clustering, topic modeling etc.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Data Solution Engineer - Senior Specialist
Telstra
7 2023 - Current
- Optimized spark code which leads to 40% improvement in run time
- Led migration of entire code base from GitLab to GitHub, streamlining code versioning and history management
- Demonstrated strong technical expertise in providing solutions, code reviews, and unblocking technical issues
- Enhanced code quality and maintainability through regular code cleanups
- Progressed from individual contributor to FTL and technical FTL, demonstrating leadership capabilities.
Senior Data Engineer
Baker Hughes
2021.11 - 2023.07
- Data lake with Databricks and Delta table is a solution to modernize existing data layer on Greenplum
- This solution is based on Lakehouse architecture to serve the needs of both data warehouse and data lake
- Built robust data ingestion framework which connects from different sources and target as delta
- Framework is purely metadata driven where users doesn't need spark knowledge to onboard new jobs
- Responsible for unblocking team whenever they are stuck with some technical challenges in Databricks
- Designed a DevOps process to implement CICD to deploy code changes to framework and Databricks jobs
- Responsible to evaluate and understand pain points to operationalize the pipelines and to build a sustainable solution.
Technical Lead - Lead Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2018.01 - 2021.09
- Digital supply chain management for a Fortune 500 client
- Responsible for end-to-end feature design, development, deployment to support of an automated centralized processing engine which processed user defied rules on the warehouse stock (shortage) and notify the intended management
- Delivered over 50+ data processing pipelines with medium to complex requirements
- Refactored code to improve performance
- Lead the data team
- Designed the entire backend module
- Was responsible for the entire lifecycle of the project.
Lead Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2017.09 - 2017.12
- Named entity recognition and information extraction from scanned PDF
- Requirement was to extract entities/information specified by the client
- Sample entity/information was provided by the client and the similar entity/information was extracted from all the other documents using NLP techniques
- As a prerequisite, all the PDFs were converted into readable text which was then faced with OCR issues
- Built a preprocessing engine to remove as many OCR issues as possible.
Lead Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2017.10 - 2017.11
- Involved in developing a Deep Learning based model to identify tables in document images
- Used Luminoth framework along with object detection algorithms to get the co-ordinates of the table in each page.
Lead Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2017.04 - 2017.08
- Built a model that predicts the gap areas in testing using actual customer feedback of the product experience
- Read all the customer reviews, preprocessed them by tokenizing, cleaning, stop word removal etc
- Applied clustering on the cleaned reviews to bind the similar reviews together and then applied LDA topic modeling technique to get the top-most topics out of each cluster
- Then mapped each topic to the relevant test cases to see if all the topics were covered
- NLP techniques were used to map test cases to topics.
Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2016.10 - 2017.03
- Enhanced Personal Health Care is a value-base, patient-centered care program
- Based on the patient's history/affinity he/she is attributed to a provider
- The application was designed and developed using agile methodology.
Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2014.04 - 2016.09
- The project was to implement a system to process the new health care plan related information as part of the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare).
Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2013.08 - 2014.03
- Individual Infomart - Part of Health Insurance Exchange
- A system to process individual member records from different sources and load it to our data mart.
Tata Consultancy Services
2012.11 - 2013.07
Education
PG Diploma in Data Analytics -
IIIT-Bangalore & UpGrad
Bengaluru 2017.03 - 2018.03
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Malnad College of Engineering
Hassan 2008.06 - 2012.06
Skills
Azure Databricks
Apache Spark
Apache Kafka
Spark Streaming
Scala
Python
Shell
SQL
R
Solution Design and Architecture
Machine Learning (Regression, Classification, Clustering, Deep Learning, Forecasting, Artificial Neural Networks)
Timeline
Senior Data Engineer
Baker Hughes
2021.11 - 2023.07
Technical Lead - Lead Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2018.01 - 2021.09
Lead Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2017.10 - 2017.11
Lead Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2017.09 - 2017.12
Lead Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2017.04 - 2017.08
PG Diploma in Data Analytics -
IIIT-Bangalore & UpGrad
2017.03 - 2018.03
Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2016.10 - 2017.03
Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2014.04 - 2016.09
Developer
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
2013.08 - 2014.03
Tata Consultancy Services
2012.11 - 2013.07
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Malnad College of Engineering
2008.06 - 2012.06
Data Solution Engineer - Senior Specialist
Telstra
7 2023 - Current
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