Balamurali Krushna Kopparapu

I’m a data-driven Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing and implementing end-to-end Azure data solutions for ingestion, processing, and analytics. I build and orchestrate Azure Data Factory pipelines to load and transform data into ADLS Gen2, ensuring data quality and reliability through validation steps, monitoring, and failure handling.

I focus on performance, scalability, and measurable impact—using Azure Synapse Analytics (SQL scripts and notebooks) to curate data and designing analytical models in Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool with partitioning, indexing, and performance tuning. In my work, I improved data processing efficiency by ~50%, reduced storage costs by 40%, and delivered a 50–60% query performance improvement; I also supported on-premises to Azure migration with a 30% cost reduction and stronger scalability. Certified in Databricks and Azure, I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams on data governance and compliance while continuously improving robust data pipelines.