Data Engineer

Harsha Narendra Kulkarni

Austin, TX 979-***-**** **************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/harsha-narendra-kulkarni

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Advance SQL, Python, HiveQL

Technical Skills: Hadoop, Pyspark, Apache Kafka, Git, Hive, Docker, Microsoft Office, Tableau, RDBMS, JIRA, Confluence, Scrum, Bitbucket, API, ETL, Data Quality, Data Standardization, Agile, CI/CD, Microsoft Power Automate, Data Pipelines, Data Governance, Grafana

Datacamp Certifications: Introduction to Python, Intro to data science in python, Joining Data with pandas, pandas Foundation, Manipulating DataFrames with pandas

EXPERIENCE

Target Bangalore, India

Senior Data Engineer, Pricing & Competitive Intelligence Insights December 2020 – August 2021

Created ETL pipeline using Shell scripting, Python, hive and Oozie to ingest CSV data and process over 400 GB of data; analyzed data for gaps and coordinated with cross functional teams to ensure data democratization

Built certified foundation enterprise datasets using ETL on raw data leading to increased price realization metrics

Analyzed product overlap between two sources; evaluation led to integration of a new source decreasing sourcing costs by one third

Build pipeline data monitoring metrics using Grafana

Data Engineer, Pricing & Competitive Intelligence Insights July 2018 – November 2020

Led design and roll out efforts to integrate a new vendor, resulted in improved price intel information by 2 times

Evaluated an automated process to validate quality of pricing data, led to reduced processing time by 60%

Streamlined a data pipeline to transfer data between Hadoop and Postgres and APIs for a hackathon event winning 1st place in Data & Analytics; idea was further evolved as an enterprise product

Used Apache Sqoop to import/export data from RDBMS (Teradata, Oracle, Exadata) to Hadoop

Crowd Sourcing project at Target India August 2018 – January 2019

Developed API layer and CI/CD pipeline for an enterprise system, provided details of Learning and Development events across Target India; application to be used by 3000 team members

INTERNSHIPS

Texas A&M University College Station, TX

Graduate Assistant Research June 2022 – May 2023

Built dashboards for university graduate and undergraduate survey data using Tableau

Automate manual administrative tasks using Microsoft Power Automate

Marsh College Station, TX

Analytics Solutions Intern June 2022 – August 2022

Automated actuarial models for worker’s compensation using Python to calculate severity and frequency of losses

Built pipeline to parse & integrate Excel files from state wise NCCI data into automated actuarial model

VMware Bangalore, India

Intern, Cloud Management Business Unit January 2018 – June 2018

Implemented a Change Management System for queued and synchronized deployment of code changes

EDUCATION

Texas A&M University, Mays Business School College Station, TX

Master of Science in Management Information Systems (GPA:4.0/4.0) May 2023

Visvesvaraya Technological University Bangalore, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science (GPA:4.0/4.0) May 2018

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