Sai Sridhar Reddy Palli is a data engineer currently working at Principal Financial Group since September 2023, where responsibilities include leading the development and optimization of ETL pipelines using Python, SQL, Apache Spark, and Hadoop, as well as utilizing Airflow for monitoring and troubleshooting to enhance data quality. Prior experience at KPIT TECHNOLOGY from August 2019 to July 2022 involved developing and maintaining HiveQL queries for data exploration and reporting on large HDFS datasets, and building scalable Spark applications on Databricks, achieving a 40% reduction in infrastructure management overhead. Sai Sridhar Reddy Palli is pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at the University at Buffalo, anticipated completion in December 2023.