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Raghuveera N

Backend Engineer

New York, New York, United States4 yrs 3 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Reduced costs by millions through optimized data systems.
  • Enabled real-time decision-making with advanced data pipelines.
  • Mentored junior engineers while enhancing data quality.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineer with expertise in Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringBig Data ProcessingData VisualizationData AnalyticsMachine LearningData Pipeline ManagementData Quality Management

Other Skills

AWS AthenaAWS EMRAWS SageMakerAirflowAlteryx BI + Visualization SolutionsAmazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)Amazon MSKAmazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache HudiApache KafkaApache SparkApache Spark MLAzure Cosmos DBAzure Data Factory

About

Data Engineer with 4.5+ years of experience designing, scaling and optimizing cloud data systems on Microsoft Azure and AWS. Proven expertise in big data processing with Apache Spark and PySpark, real-time streaming with Kafka, orchestrating ELT pipelines with Airflow, dbt and Databricks and deploying ML/AI models (XGBoost, TensorFlow, BERT, LangChain) into production. Skilled in SQL, Python, tableau and data warehousing techniques (Kimball star schema), delivering solutions that reduce costs by millions and enable real-time business decision-making.

Experience

4 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 5 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Walgreens

Data Engineer

May 2024Apr 2025 · 11 mos · Albany, New York, United States · Remote

  • 1. Ensured 99.9% data availability by accelerating a 500M+ transaction data pipeline from 5 hours to 3 hours, supporting the Pharmacy Operations and Finance teams.
  • 2. Enabled real-time inventory replenishment for 9,000 stores by reducing P99 streaming latency to 110 seconds; implemented idempotent sinks and watermarking in Kafka and Spark Streaming to get exactly-once processing guarantees.
  • 3. Achieved 85% weekly adoption of 20+ critical reports among 50+ directors by enhancing data accessibility and report performance.
  • 4. Optimized Power BI performance by slashing report load times by 60% (<10s) through advanced data modeling (star schemas) and incremental refresh strategies on Azure Synapse.
Apache KafkaApache SparkPower BIAzure SynapseData ModelingData Engineering+1

Open financial technologies

Data Analytics Engineer

Aug 2022Mar 2023 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, IN · On-site

  • 1. Collaborated with 5 cross-functional leaders to reduce merchant churn by 15% and increase revenue by 5%, architecting an A/B testing framework using Snowflake, dbt, and Tableau for data modeling and visualization.
  • 2. Reduced financial losses by 20% by productionizing a tuned XGBoost model that lifted fraud detection precision by 15%, delivering real-time investigation signals to the Risk team.
  • 3. Led the development of an automated GenAI pipeline (LangChain, BERT) that saved the Product team 15+ hours weekly by summarizing and clustering customer feedback for sentiment analysis.
  • 4. Eliminated 20+ hours of manual reporting weekly by delivering >99.9% accurate daily ELT pipelines, orchestrating a CI/CD workflow with Airflow, dbt and Snowflake for 40+ GB of data.
SnowflakedbtTableauXGBoostLangChainData Analytics+1

Zentek infosoft

Data Engineer

Sep 2019Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India · On-site

  • 1. Drove an estimated $1.2M in annual savings for a retail client by re-architecting a nightly sales aggregation pipeline in Spark on AWS EMR, which improved demand forecast accuracy by 15% and enabled real-time reporting in Looker.
  • 2. Accelerated time-to-revenue by cutting new client onboarding from 4 weeks to 3 days; engineered a reusable CDC framework (Debezium, Kafka Connect) that reduced future onboarding costs by over 70%.
  • 3. Avoided significant SLA penalties by architecting a resilient, event-driven pipeline in Kafka that decreased data load failures by 70% and ensured 99.9% SLA compliance for 200M+ daily transactions.
  • 4. Mentored 2 junior engineers while partnering with compliance teams to build an automated data quality reporting process (SQL, Airflow) that cut client escalations by 30%.
Apache SparkAWS EMRLookerDebeziumKafka ConnectData Engineering+1

Education

Syracuse University School of Information Studies

Master of Science - MS — Applied Data Science

Aug 2023May 2025

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor's degree — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jul 2016Aug 2020

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