Ram Avasarala

Ram Avasarala is a seasoned data engineer with extensive experience in building data and streaming pipelines, data lake design, and supporting data science initiatives. Currently serving as a Senior Data Engineer at U-Haul International, Inc, since June 2020, Ram utilizes Azure Databricks, executes Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for ML model deployment, and creates metrics dashboards with Grafana. Prior experience includes a role at Ford Motor Company, where responsibilities involved data design and supporting analytics insights, as well as work at Walmart focused on developing a data lake and ETL processes. Ram's career began at SoftHQ Inc, where job responsibilities included developing MapReduce jobs and implementing Hive UDFs. Ram holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering and a Master's degree in Applied Computer Science from Northwest Missouri State University.