Shivakumar Valpady

Shivakumar Valpady is an accomplished Data Engineer II at Arbella Insurance Group since March 2022, previously serving as Data Engineer I, where significant projects included transitioning from the Talend ETL tool to Pyspark and Apache Hadoop. Prior experience includes a role as a Data Engineer at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and teaching assistant positions at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, leading undergraduate labs in Electricity and Magnetism and Digital Signal Processing. An internship as a Data Scientist at Embue involved developing a UI dashboard for monitoring thermostats, utilizing a MongoDB database. Shivakumar holds a Master’s degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is currently pursuing an Executive MS in Information Technology Project Management at New England College. An undergraduate degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering was obtained from Bangalore Institute of Technology.