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Prashant Borhade

@prashantborhade

Lead Data Engineer building scalable petabyte platforms, observability, and GenAI-driven data experiences for measurable impact.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a senior data engineering role where I can lead scalable data-platform architecture, build observability-driven ETL, and apply GenAI (RAG/multi-agent) to deliver measurable business results.

I’m a Lead Data Engineer with 12+ years architecting and scaling petabyte-scale data platforms—from distributed ingestion to enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure. I lead end-to-end data feature lifecycles, with deep expertise in Spark, Snowflake/Vertica, AWS, and distributed systems.

At Samsung Ads, I was hired as a Lead Engineer to architect the Audience Builder platform and set engineering standards across the team. I spearheaded a multi-region initiative (USA, Korea, India) that created a net-new TV viewership dataset and delivered $20M+ in estimated business value, while designing an observability framework that reduced customer-reported production issues by 60%.

I also push practical innovation—deploying RAG (React, LangGraph, ChromaDB, AWS Bedrock) to cut internal doc search time by ~40%, and architecting a multi-agent text-to-SQL system (AWS Bedrock, Anthropic Claude) to democratize data access. Earlier, I led CPRA compliance architecture using Spark and Airflow and maintained 99.9%+ availability for a mission-critical 16 PB Cloudera Hadoop cluster at Verizon.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Data Engineer / Lead

Current

Samsung Electronics America

Jul 2021 - Present (4 years 11 months)

Architected Samsung Ads Audience Builder platform from ingestion to Vertica analytics, including a multi-region initiative delivering $20M+ in new business value. Designed observability that reduced production issues by 60% and deployed RAG and multi-agent systems to cut internal doc search time ~40% and enable natural-language to Vertica SQL.

Apache Spark Scala Apache Airflow Vertica Grafana VictoriaMetrics Kafka Apache Iceberg ChromaDB

Senior Data Engineer (Design Lead)

Walmart Global Tech

Mar 2021 - Jul 2021 (4 months)

Led CPRA compliance architecture using Spark and Airflow to automate auditable PII deletion and retrieval across 30+ data domains. Built modular Python tooling for dynamic DAG generation, reducing code duplication by 60% and onboarding new regulations from weeks to days.

Apache Spark Apache Airflow Python Compliance Engineering DAG Design Data Auditing SQL

Data Engineer / Streaming ETL

Verizon Wireless Inc.

Oct 2018 - Mar 2021 (2 years 5 months)

Administered and performance-tuned a mission-critical 16 PB, 300+ node Cloudera Hadoop cluster, maintaining 99.9%+ availability for petabyte-scale ingestion pipelines. Architected Kafka/Zookeeper event-driven streaming ETL for unified monitoring of 200+ Oracle systems, reducing on-call intervention by 9+ hours/week and improving proactive incident response.

Apache Kafka ZooKeeper Cloudera Python BASH Oracle Pl SQL Flask

Data Engineer / Oracle DBA

Tata Consultancy Services

Dec 2010 - Jan 2016 (5 years 1 month)

Developed Apache Spark ETL to migrate application logs from Linux file systems to HDFS, enabling advanced log analytics and reducing storage costs via optimized layouts. Optimized Oracle performance using AWR/ASH, implemented Sqoop archival to Hadoop, and provided Oracle RAC DBA support with automated health checks.

Apache Spark HDFS Sqoop Oracle Database Python Shell Scripting