Balaji Sankar Konakalla

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over ten years of experience in big data and analytics.
Expertise in building scalable data platforms.
Strong knowledge of data science and engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Big Data Engineer with expertise in analytics and data platform development.

Contact

balaji.konakalla@bazaarvoice.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Big DataData Engineering

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsAnsibleApache HiveApache NiFiApache NutchApache PigCC++D3.jsData AnalysisData MiningDistributed SystemsDremio

About

I have over ten years of experience in big data and analytics and contributed to various projects that involved building DataLakes, performance tuning, observability, and stability. I have also acquired a strong knowledge of both data science and data engineering, as well as exposure to DevOps and the cloud. I hold a master's degree in big data analytics from the Vellore Institute of Technology, where I learned the theoretical and practical aspects of data analysis, machine learning, and distributed computing

Experience

11 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 8 mos

Average Tenure

9 mos

Current Experience

Bazaarvoice

Staff Data Engineer

Jul 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Mystifly

Staff Engineer (Data)

Jul 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

As a staff engineer at Mystifly, I am responsible for building and maintaining a scalable and reliable data platform that enables data-driven decision making and insights for the global travel industry. I leverage my expertise in GCP, Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, and other big data technologies to design, develop, and deploy data pipelines, dashboards, and analytics solutions that meet business needs.

GCPHadoopSparkNoSQLBig DataData Engineering

Walmart labs india

Senior Data Engineer

May 2020 – Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building a centralized analytics platform for ASDA. Overseeing data from inception to impactful Insights.

ScalaData Engineering

Maersk gtd

Senior Data Engineer

Apr 2018 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

Oversaw all stability and performance related issues in hadoop cluster
Create pipelines from ingestion to visuvalization
Building CI CD Pipelines using Jenkins and GoCD

HadoopJenkinsGoCDData Engineering

Thoughtworks

Data Engineer

Feb 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

Responsible for product performance
Effective way of price recommendation at scale using Spark
Took part of release management, coordinating with different teams
All spark related efficiency problems

SparkData Engineering

Kogentix inc.

Big-Data Engineer

Jul 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad

Building data pipelines from data source to report generation and sollutions for variety of exciting applications. Distributed computation and MapReduce techniques to implement compute hungry transformations
Planning workforce and task distribution according to requirement and helping the team in solving problems in effective manner
Developing Spark-Scala programs equivalent to Java and oracle tasks which efficiently work in distributed environmnet

SparkMapReduceBig Data

Tiger analytics

Intern

Oct 2014 – May 2015 · 7 mos · Chennai

Analyzing past deals data and identifying parameters that effects the success rate of proposal and validating there dependency by statistical parameters
Statistical analysis, pre-processing and validation of collected data from various resources. Make sure to supress all the anomolies while crawling from different resources
Sentimental analysis on data (comments) fetched from various financial sites. Sentiment score is calculated by analysing comment data and news related to particular organisation

Statistical Analysis