Akarsh K.

Akarsh K. has a strong background in data engineering and development. Akarsh is currently working as a Sr Data Engineer at The Public Health Company. Prior to this, they served as a Lead Data Engineer at Public Storage from 2020 to 2022.

Before that, Akarsh worked at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK as a Senior BigData Developer from 2016 to 2020. In this role, they were responsible for designing and setting up a data platform for consolidated analysis and reporting using various tools such as Airflow, BigQuery, DataFlow, PubSub, BigTable, Qubole, and Redshift.

Akarsh also gained experience at McDonald's (CapGemini) as a Hadoop Developer Lead, where they played a vital role in migrating the onPrem HDP platform to AWS and transitioning from Mapreduce workflows to Spark and SparkSql.

Prior to that, Akarsh worked as a Hadoop Developer Lead at Under Armour (CapGemini), analyzing customer workout activities and creating user categorizations based on workouts and external factors. Akarsh also performed geospatial analysis using customer data at this role.

Earlier in their career, Akarsh served as a Senior Java Developer at Apple (Tata Consultancy Services), developing the Mobile Genius application for Apple Stores. Akarsh also worked as a Java Developer at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Tata Consultancy Services) on the Webstats project, which was an internal portal for JPMorgan employees and managers.

Throughout their career, Akarsh has consistently demonstrated their expertise in data engineering, development, and analysis, making valuable contributions to various organizations.

Akarsh K. earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Science & Technology, completing the program from 2005 to 2009. In terms of additional certifications, Akarsh obtained an Oracle OCA certification from Oracle in June 2004. Later, in January 2013, Akarsh also obtained an Oracle Java J2EE certification from the same institution. Akarsh also pursued a Big Data and Hadoop certification from Edureka, although the specific month and year of completion are not provided.