Anand K

Anand K has extensive experience in data engineering and analytics. Their most recent role was as a Data Engineer at Otter.ai starting in 2023. Prior to that, Anand worked as a Data Engineer at Udacity from September 2021 to December 2022. In this role, they designed and implemented frameworks for data governance and created self-serving tracking plans and governance dashboards using Python, DBT, Airflow, and Tableau.

Before joining Udacity, Anand held various data engineering roles at Accenture. As a Data Engineering Associate Manager from December 2019 to September 2021, they led data engineering efforts and built scalable data pipelines and cloud apps. Anand also built integration processes using AWS Lambda/Python to reduce data latency and increase reporting availability. In addition, Anand created reusable data frameworks and integration tools using Spark/Hadoop to support behavioral analytics and data science teams.

As a Data Engineering Lead from February 2014 to December 2019, Anand developed a Spark testing framework to reduce deployment lead time and implemented basic classification models and KPI driven metrics frameworks using NLTK, spaCy, and data discovery techniques. Anand also automated existing business processes and improved processing time and business efficiency.

Anand's earlier experience at Accenture includes roles as a Data Engineer and ETL Developer, where they focused on ETL development, data integration, and test automation to improve reporting, customer targeting, and operational efficiency.

Overall, Anand K has a solid background in data engineering, with a focus on building data pipelines, designing frameworks, and integrating external data sources to enable data-driven decision-making and improve business processes.

Anand K obtained their Bachelor's Degree in Information and Communication Technology from Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy. In terms of additional certifications, they completed the following:

- Python Basic from HackerRank in April 2020

- Machine Learning Fundamentals from edX in June 2018

- Statistics and Probability in Data Science using Python from edX in March 2018

- DSE200x: Python for Data Science from edX in December 2017

- The Data Scientist's Toolbox from Coursera Course Certificates in March 2015

- AINS 21 - Property & Liability Insurance principles from AICPU in March 2012

- Scaled Agile Framework® Agilist (SA) Certification Program from Scaled Agile, Inc. in June 2016