Siva Pandeti

Siva Pandeti has a strong background in data engineering and solution architecture. Siva started their career at AMD, where they worked as an ETL Consultant and built a data warehouse to capture machine sensor data for a new chip manufacturing plant. This data warehouse played a crucial role in predicting machine and process failures, resulting in reduced defective chip output and increased yield and profit margins.

Siva then joined Southwest Airlines as a Sr ETL Consultant, where they built an enterprise data warehouse to improve analytics on pricing, sales, marketing, and productivity. This enabled the company to gain better insight into customer traveling patterns, leading to better ticket pricing and increased sales. The data warehouse also provided valuable insights into inefficiencies in airline operations, which were useful in contract negotiations and increased profitability.

After Southwest Airlines, Siva worked at Fannie Mae as a Senior Data Engineer and later as a Solution Architect. As a data engineer, they led a team in building a large-scale data warehouse and BI layer, providing the company with a near real-time view of the asset and liability portfolio. This empowered executives to make better and faster business decisions. In their role as a solution architect, Siva played a crucial role in shaping the company's data architecture and solutions.

Siva then joined Netflix as a Senior Data Engineer, where data-driven decision making was at the core of the company's objectives to acquire and retain millions of customers worldwide. Working on top of a petabyte-scale warehouse in AWS, Siva contributed to business intelligence and data science initiatives.

Currently, Siva is working at Nextdoor.com as a Senior Data Engineer, where they continue to leverage their expertise in data engineering to drive insights and support the company's objectives.

Siva Pandeti has a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, which was earned from 2000 to 2002. Prior to that, Siva obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, from 1996 to 2000. Additionally, Siva has obtained various certifications including AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH) from Cloudera, Cloudera Certified Specialist in Apache HBase (CCSHB) from Cloudera, ITIL v3 from APMG-International, and Six Sigma White Belt from the Aveta Business Institute. The exact dates of obtaining these certifications are not specified.