Krishna Prashanth Thummanapelly — Associate Consultant
I am a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Arizona and an M.S. Computer Science student, passionate about large-scale data systems, data engineering, and DevOps. With 2 years of industry experience at Zomato and Brane Enterprises, I have built and scaled real-time analytics systems, distributed pipelines, and cloud-native services, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and scalability. My expertise spans Python, Go, C/C++, Apache Kafka, Spark, Pinot, AWS, Docker, Ray, gRPC, MongoDB, and SQL. Key highlights: 🏆 Best Paper Award (COMSNETS 2024) for TEFAR, an efficient encryption system for secure big data storage. 🚀 Built a real-time mobile analytics platform using Apache Spark and Pinot, delivering sub-50ms query latency with 30-minute update intervals. ⚡ Built scalable LLM services and APIs with autoscaling on AWS, reducing costs and improving performance. I enjoy solving problems at the intersection of data engineering, distributed systems, and DevOps, and I’m eager to contribute to teams building scalable, high-impact data platforms. 💡 Actively seeking full-time opportunities in Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Distributed Systems, or DevOps for Summer 2026.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering and DevOps specialist with a focus on scalable systems.
Location: Tucson, Arizona, United States
Experience: 3 yrs 11 mos
Skills
- Python
- Aws
- Parallel Programming
- Distributed Systems
- Llmops
- Big Data
- Apache Spark
- Kafka
Career Highlights
- Best Paper Award for TEFAR encryption system.
- Built real-time analytics platform with sub-50ms latency.
- Developed scalable LLM services on AWS.
Work Experience
Department of Computer Science at The University of Arizona
Graduate Teaching Assistant (7 mos)
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
Graduate Research Assistant (1 yr 10 mos)
Brane Group
Associate Solutions Leader (DevOps) (6 mos)
Department of CSE, IIT Hyderabad
Research Assistant (5 mos)
Zomato
Software Engineer (1 yr 7 mos)
my-healthconnect
Product Development Intern (2 mos)
Education
Master of Science - MS at University of Arizona
Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad