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Prasanna Velagala

@prasannavelagala

Senior Data Engineer at J.B. Hunt who built an Azure data platform integrating 20+ sources and cut data refresh time by 45%.

United States
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At J.B. Hunt, I designed and built an Azure data platform integrating more than 20 data sources. I developed ELT pipelines that reduced data refresh time by 45%.

At Blue Cross of Idaho, I built an AWS data lake consolidating more than 15 data sources. I optimized Spark jobs on EMR, reducing compute costs by 30%.

At Visa, I built real-time pipelines processing more than 2 billion daily transactions and helped improve fraud detection accuracy by 18% with ML-ready datasets.

Earlier, at InComm Payments and Accenture, I developed data pipelines for financial transactions and migrated a legacy data warehouse to the Hadoop ecosystem. I work across Azure, AWS, and GCP, using tools such as Databricks, Spark, and Airflow.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Visa logoVI

Senior Data Engineer – Fraud & Payments Analytics (GCP)

Jun 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 2 months)

Built real-time pipelines processing 2B+ daily transactions using Airflow and Dataflow. Improved data processing efficiency by 40% using PySpark on Dataproc.

InComm Payments logoIP

Data Engineer – GCP Platform

Sep 2018 - May 2020 (1 year 8 months)

Developed ETL pipelines using Dataflow and BigQuery for financial transaction processing. Automated ingestion workflows using Python and Airflow, reducing manual effort by 35%.

Accenture logoAC

Data Engineer – Big Data Migration

Aug 2016 - Nov 2016 (3 months)

Migrated legacy data warehouse to Hadoop ecosystem (Hive, Spark). Improved ETL performance by 40% replacing MapReduce with Spark.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Texas A&M University logoTU

Texas A&M University

Master of Science, Computer Science

Master of Science in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada logoJK

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from JNTU Kakinada.

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