Rachana Reddy Kadari
Woodstock
Summary
Cloud Data Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming solutions, and cloud-native data platforms across AWS and GCP. Skilled in Python, SQL, BigQuery, Dataflow, Airflow, Kafka. Extensive background in Pega application development API integrations, delivering secure, compliant, and high-performance solutions.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Engineer III
JPMorgan Chase
Columbus
12.2022 - Current
- Orchestrated serverless ETL pipelines utilizing AWS Glue and Step Functions to process 5TB of structured/semi-structured data from Teradata/S3, achieving 99.99% data reliability and reducing latency by 15%.
- Built and deployed enterprise-grade data pipelines using Databricks, with deep expertise in Python, SQL, Terraform and PySpark, ensuring scalability, performance, and governance.
- Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CloudFormation for AWS provisioning, ensuring secure, repeatable, and auditable deployments.
- Developed streaming data pipelines using Apache Kafka and PySpark, reducing data latency and enabling near real-time operational dashboards and alerting.
- Constructed 10+ repeatable Alteryx workflows for data preparation, compressing the data processing time by 8 hours weekly, enabling analysts to focus on higher-value client deliverables.
- Orchestrated data warehouse architecture across Amazon Redshift, DynamoDB, and Teradata, instituting star schemas and time-series models that accelerated report generation by 40%.
- Accelerated data availability by configuring AWS Lambda for lightweight ETL, cutting down data transformation time by 30% before storing into Amazon Redshift clusters.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust data architectures, driving operational efficiency and data insights.
- Conducted data validation and debugging to ensure accuracy and compliance with governance policies.
- Automated cron jobs for hourly and daily data refreshes.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Spinnaker, automating deployment of data pipelines and microservices with integrated testing and rollback mechanisms.
- Automated Pega BIX and API-based data extraction to transfer data from cloud to SFTP, supporting downstream analytics and regulatory compliance.
- Worked on secure ingress connectivity from Pega Cloud to on-prem JPMC GAP and GKP environments via AWS API Gateway and Spring Boot microservices deployed on ECS.
Software Engineering Advisor
Express Scripts
Memphis
01.2019 - 12.2022
- Worked across Pega platform versions (7.x to 8.8.3), including Pega Cloud, with hands-on expertise in building scalable case management and workflow solutions.
- Worked on Pega Cloud migrations for multiple applications, ensuring smooth data transfer and minimal downtime through best practices and blue-green deployment strategies.
- Designed and developed POCs and application solutions using Pega, with deep involvement in REST/SOAP web service integrations and data model design.
- Developed and optimized ETL pipelines using Pega Data Flows and BIX for efficient data extraction, transformation, and reporting across systems.
- Automated and orchestrated business processes using Camunda 8 (Zeebe) with BPMN/DMN modeling and job workers for asynchronous task execution.
- Built and deployed Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs for backend processing, integrating with frontend apps and external cloud platforms.
- Developed and executed comprehensive performance testing using JMeter and BlazeMeter, ensuring scalability of BPMN workflows and DMN models.
- Debugged and tuned applications using Tracer, SMA, Admin Studio, Clipboard, PDC, and AES, leading to improved operational stability and faster issue resolution.
- Used Splunk and New Relic for proactive monitoring, logging, and alerting across hybrid cloud environments to support system health and observability.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into user centric BPMN/DMN workflows, ensuring business alignment.
- Hands-on experience with SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, and implementing correspondence rules in Pega for automated notifications.
Software Engineering Intern
Express Scripts
Memphis
05.2018 - 12.2018
- Worked in Clearance Care Central Application using Pega 7.x.
- Implemented process flows and Screen flows as per Application requirement.
- Developed various screens. Worked intensively on User Interface using Harness, Sections, and flow action rules.
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Cyberinfrastructure -USC
09.2017 - 05.2018
- Hands-on experience in Linux system administration, with expertise in cluster creation and management using Hortonworks and IBM Spectrum Conductor for deploying scalable big data platforms.
- Conducted text mining and sentiment analysis on 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Twitter data using Twitter4j API in Java, focusing on real-time data cleaning and pattern discovery from social media streams.
Solutions Engineer– Developer, Full Time
Pegasystems
Hyderabad
07.2015 - 08.2017
- Good knowledge and exposure to agile development methodologies like SCRUM.
- Used Pega 7.1, Pega 7.2, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Java.
- Hands on experience with advanced UI features of Pega 7. Worked as UX champion, creating the screens as per the mockups and integrating latest UI-Kit from PRPC core engine.
- My role involved running and creating Flows, Flow Actions, Sections, Data Transform. Running integration wizard to connect to various vendors for retrieving additional business services.
- Good understanding on Pega 7.X concepts which include Case Management, Data Modeling, Reporting, Systems Integration and Code Migration.
- Good knowledge on creating specification documents.
- Have hands-on experience with Pega Customer Decision Hub (CDH).
- Expertise on working with User Interface, Declarative and Decision rules, Activities and Validations.
- Data modeling to support databases like SQL Server and Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL.
- Implemented various PRPC components like Decision tables, Decision Maps, Declarative expressions and when rules.
Intern
Coresonant Systems
Hyderabad
09.2014 - 12.2014
- Developed an automated tool using python and MySQL integration to find the devices connected over a Network and install the drivers.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina12.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Osmania University
01.2015
Skills
Programming Languages:
Python, Java, HTML, CSS, Java Script, React
Cloud Platforms:
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Big Data & Streaming:
Spark, PySpark, Kafka, BigQuery, Redshift, Teradata, DynamoDB, Oracle
Data Orchestration & ETL:
Cloud Composer (Airflow), AWS Glue, Dataflow, Databricks, Pega, Camunda, Alteryx
DevOps & CI/CD:
Terraform, Git , AWS CloudFormation, Jenkins, Spinnaker
Monitoring & Observability:
Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, New Relic
Certification
- Oracle certified java programmer, Oracle
- Certified System Architect (Pega), Pegasystems
- Certified Senior System Architect (Pega), Pegasystems
- Certified Lead System Architect (Pega) Part-1, Pegasystems
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate, AWS
Awards
Code Busters Award, JPMorgan Chase, 01/01/25, Developed an AI-driven Business Rules Engine to evaluate account opening rules from court order documents. Designed a four-step automation: data extraction, rule application, output formatting, and decision generation. Created a reusable LLM prompt for business rule execution across projects. Integrated document processing for automated rule execution.
Timeline
Software Engineer III
JPMorgan Chase
12.2022 - Current
Software Engineering Advisor
Express Scripts
01.2019 - 12.2022
Software Engineering Intern
Express Scripts
05.2018 - 12.2018
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Cyberinfrastructure -USC
09.2017 - 05.2018
Solutions Engineer– Developer, Full Time
Pegasystems
07.2015 - 08.2017
Intern
Coresonant Systems
09.2014 - 12.2014
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of South Carolina
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Osmania University
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