Data engineerwith a habit ofshipping AI products.
I design and run large-scale Spark and Kafka pipelines on the AWS lakehouse stack, and build AI products on the side, from multi-agent systems to RAG apps.
- Now
- Software Engineer · Citi
- Focus
- Data engineering · AI systems
- Based
- Chennai, India
- me@praddy.dev
Experience
From on-prem Hadoop to AWS-native lakehouses, with a founder detour in between.
- Roles
- 04
- Organisations
- 03
- Since
- Feb 2024
- 01
Jul 2025 — Present · Hybrid · Chennai
Citi
Software Engineer — Big Data & Cloud Platforms
Build PySpark pipelines on AWS (EKS, S3, Airflow) with Snowflake and Apache Iceberg for large-scale financial data. Led the migration path for 10,000+ pipelines from Snowflake to Iceberg, and built an L3 autonomous triage agent on Google ADK that diagnoses and remediates Airflow and Autosys failures.
- 02
Jul 2024 — Jul 2025 · Hybrid · Chennai
Citi
Technology Analyst — Big Data
Built real-time ingestion and reconciliation pipelines with Kafka and Spark (Scala) for high-volume payment platforms. Cut a transaction-reporting job on 800M+ records from ~80 to ~10 minutes through Hive optimization.
- 03
May 2024 — Jun 2025 · Remote · Incubated at Nirmaan, IIT Madras
Vessel Match
Co-Founder — AI & Data Systems
Co-founded a full-stack AI platform automating vessel/cargo matching and pre-fixture workflows, incubated at Nirmaan, IIT Madras. Trials processed 200+ vessels a day; raised INR 7L seed plus $5K AWS credits and signed 5 industry partners.
- 04
Feb 2024 — May 2024 · In person · Chennai
32Mins Digital Consultancy Services
AI Engineer Intern
Built a speech-to-speech Indic dubbing pipeline on AI4Bharat models (ASR, NMT, TTS) that processed 500+ hours of video and cut dubbing time from months to days. Piloted with the Indian Parliament.
Projects
03 projects · agents, RAG, speech
Beyond the job
2 degrees · 2 IEEE papers · 3 honours
Education
02- 2016
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
B.S. Data Science & Applications
2021 – 2024
- 2016
SSN College of Engineering
B.E. Electronics & Communication Engineering
2020 – 2024
Papers
02Yoga Pose Estimation Using a Rule-based Approach
World Conference on Communication & Computing (WCONF 2023)
Rule-based analysis of Mediapipe body keypoints for real-time yoga pose recognition and feedback, reaching 93% accuracy.
IEEE XploreMachine Learning and Ensemble Techniques for Water Quality Analysis of Korattur Lake
IEEE 4th Global Conference for Advancement in Technology (GCAT 2023)
Compared accuracy and compute cost of XGBoost, KNN and bagging ensembles (decision trees, SVC) on Korattur Lake water-quality data.
IEEE Xplore
Awards
03- 01
Winner, MLH PEC Hacks '24
36-hour hackathon by Major League Hacking · ₹60,000 prize
- 02
Runner-up, Smart India Hackathon 2022
National hackathon by the Government of India
- 03
Head of Finance, IITM Paradox
Steered an INR 8M budget at a 5,000+ footfall fest; initiated fee reimbursement for 600+ underprivileged students
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