Amit Ranga Akkinepalli
Chertsey,Surrey
Summary
Dynamic IT professional with a robust 12-year background in software development and data engineering. Successfully led a migration project to Snowflake, enhancing operational efficiency while designing scalable data solutions in the AWS ecosystem. Aiming to contribute to a forward-thinking organization as a Senior Data Engineer by driving impactful data integration initiatives.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Data Engineer
AXS Europe Ltd
London
01.2023 - Current
- Led Data Engineering team in UK to design and implement scalable data pipeline architectures, enhancing data accessibility and processing capabilities.
- Migrated data warehouse from AWS Redshift to Snowflake, upgrading orchestration components to Kubernetes, Streamsets, and Kafka to improve system performance and reliability.
- Utilized Terraform to build and maintain the data platform environment.
- Collaborated with clients to identify data integration needs, developing tailored solutions that aligned with their business objectives.
DBA & Data Engineer
AXS Europe Ltd
London
01.2020 - 01.2023
- Designed and built robust data replication pipelines using AWS DMS.
- Implemented the entire ELT framework using Airflow.
- Developed a real-time data framework to support a live reporting app using AWS Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Dynamo DB, AWS Data Firehose.
- Implemented real-time data streaming pipelines to work with API integrations within Airflow and AWS Lambda/Python.
Database Administrator
AXS Europe Ltd
London
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Created, Managed and Administered production relational databases like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MariaDB, PostgreSQL DB, AWS Aurora MySQL & PSQL DBs.
- Collaborated with Development teams to handle database deployments, issue debugging and periodically performed critical tasks such as performance tuning, optimizing queries and designing disaster recovery plans etc.
- Created automation for DB refreshes on non-production databases in Python and automated DB migration from MariaDB to Aurora MYSQL RDS.
Systems Operations Engineer
AXS Europe Ltd
London
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Created and maintained production and non-production infrastructure in AWS Eco-system.
- Worked with the Development and QA teams to handle code deployments using Octopus Deploy, Bamboo and AWS Code build.
- Performed regular tasks such as performance monitoring, troubleshooting instances and application issues, instance patching, security etc.
Application Support Specialist
Outbox Technology
London
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Provided application support for the product built on Python microservices & MS SQL.
- Designed and developed complex SQL queries to pull data for ad-hoc reports.
- Built an automation framework for provisioning a self-service portal to the end user for their day-to-day tasks.
- Bug tracking and reporting, troubleshooting, performance monitoring etc.
Graduate Software Engineer
Cengage Learning
Andover
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Developed tools with Python & Django to streamline development processes in Linux environment.
- Created integration testing environments with Selenium Webdriver to enhance application reliability.
- Performed SQL development for DB integration to optimize data management within the application.
Education
Master’s degree - Information Technology
University of the West of England (UWE)
Bristol01-2012
Bachelor’s Degree - Computer Technology
RTMNU
Nagpur, India01-2010
Skills
- Data pipeline design
- ETL framework implementation
- Data modeling
- Data orchestration
- Cloud data migration
- Database management
- Python and SQL
- AWS tools
- Version control
Languages
Telugu
Native
Native
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
C1
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Timeline
Senior Data Engineer
AXS Europe Ltd
01.2023 - Current
DBA & Data Engineer
AXS Europe Ltd
01.2020 - 01.2023
Database Administrator
AXS Europe Ltd
01.2017 - 01.2020
Systems Operations Engineer
AXS Europe Ltd
01.2015 - 01.2017
Application Support Specialist
Outbox Technology
01.2013 - 01.2015
Graduate Software Engineer
Cengage Learning
01.2012 - 01.2013
Master’s degree - Information Technology
University of the West of England (UWE)
Bachelor’s Degree - Computer Technology
RTMNU