aaditya ganapathy
Senior Big Data Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
senior big data engineer | palo alto network | carnegie mellon alum
software engineering enthusiast , passionate technology , distributed system , data engineering . interest lie developing highly scalable , distributed , data-driven application . completing bachelor information technology mgr university chennai , worked software engineer couple year sagitec solution pune , india . graduated carnegie mellon university master 's degree information system management . career objective : •to effectively use skill analyzing complex technological problem faced business come optimal solution address issue . core competency : •strong technical fundamental . •ability analyze demanding business requirement visualize optimal solution . •hands-on experience software process management development lifecycle . •good communication negotiation skill .
Palo Alto Networks
https://www.linkedin.com/company/palo-alto-networks
Senior Big Data Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
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Palo Alto Networks
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Big Data Engineer
Santa Clara, CA
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Egen Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/company/egeninc
Data Engineer
Client: Tempus Inc.

· Creating and maintaining ETL Data Pipelines for moving structured and unstructured data from SQL, Flat Files, and API sources and load it to Amazon Redshift data warehouse and database clusters for analytics purposes. 
· Building infrastructure required for ETL pipelines for frameworks like Apache Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, and integrating these with AWS managed data services like Amazon Redshift, AWS S3. 
· Automating legacy ETL scripts to run, validate, and perform with lesser manual intervention. Also working on migrating existing data pipelines to a serverless architecture using Amazon Web Services Lambda Functions. 
· Developing star and snowflake schema data model for Data Marts. Developing data management processes and developing data governance standards for metadata management, data quality, and data security.
Chicago, IL
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Teaching Assistant in Object Oriented Programming with Java
Greater Pittsburgh Area
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Teaching Assistant in NoSQL Database Management
Greater Pittsburgh Area
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ICO Alert
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Student Software Developer
·	Built a data analytics & visualization platform to perform analytical operation & provide insights on various data points indicating the performance of an Initial Coin Offering, helping the client to monetize the data & increase their revenue by 12%.
Greater Pittsburgh Area
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TeleTracking
https://www.linkedin.com/company/teletracking
Software Engineer Summer Intern
·	Worked with the data platform team to develop various POC like authenticating access to AWS Redshift using SSO for BI apps, enabling multitenancy using Amazon Redshift and PostgreSQL and explored developing data pipelines using Apache NiFi
·	Developed Kafka producer, consumer, and built a python module for Uber's uReplicator to enable inter-cluster replication between Azure and AWS achieving 100% uptime and throughput of 30000 msgs/sec across 1500 partitions in 10 topics
·	Built an Apache Spark application to transform audit events received in a semi-structured JSON schema using Spark’s Structured Streaming API accelerating the process by 36% over the current transformation process.
Pittsburgh
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Sagitec Solutions LLC
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Software Engineer
·	Developed Pension Solution application for the California State Teachers Retirement System. Participated in functional specification analysis, designed & developed critical financial management modules in the pension system, integrated third party tools and application with the pension solution, and managed software releases
·	Optimized the design, execution flow, and used optimal data structures to improve the performance of scheduled jobs by 27%
·	Developed NeoTrack, an end-to-end SDLC Management Application. Designed major enhancements to project management flow, optimized the system to achieve 11% improvement in application performance
Pune Area, India
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Information Technology
Master of Information Systems Management
Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
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Information Technology
Bachelor of Technology (BTech)
Dr MGR Educational and Research Institute
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Graduated with First Class in Bachelors majoring in Information Technologies at Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute. Ranked 2nd across the University in the Department of Information Technology in my senior year.
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Indian Graduate Student Association
Publicity Chair & Photography Chair
Sagitec Event Management Committee
Member
Department of Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology - Dr.M.G.R Educational and Research Institute
Content Management Lead
Computer Society of India
Member
Online Energy Audit and Renewable Energy Management System
IEEE Explorer
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Fundamentals of Java Programming Language Java SE 6
50206258
Oracle Database 10g Administration Fundamentals
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Oracle Database 10g SQL Fundamentals
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Stock Market Prediction using Twitter Sentiment Analysis
Built a Python application using libraries like tweepy, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn and matplotlib that runs Twitter Sentiment Analysis on the replies of tweets by influential personalities to analyze its effects on the stock market. Used Scikit-learn machine learning library to perform classification using Multi-Layer Perceptron Classifiers to use these insights to predict the future trends in the stock market.
Dency: A Project Management Cryptocurrency
Envisioned a futuristic approach towards project management by introducing cryptocurrency as a rewarding system. Designed a blockchain cryptocurrency and in addition to the proof of work also implemented a proof of skill concept using chatbot for employee skill validation. Also developed a secure cloud-based platform to mine, trade and operate the cryptocurrency.
Eventful
Designed a cloud-based web service that interacts with a 3rd party API(Eventful API). Also developed an android application that makes RESTful requests with search parameters for the events to the web service on Heroku Cloud, and receives event details as a JSON response. Logged app data on MLab(Cloud-based MongoDB service) to perform analytics operations and provided an MVC based web interface to access insights.
Blockchain API over SOAP & REST
Developed a Blockchain API using Java. Implemented multiple interfaces such as SOAP with RMI, SOAP using JAX-WS and REST protocol to access the Blockchain API for user interaction. Used RSA KeyStore and X509 certificate TrustStore to read keys, authorize user access, and sign the transaction over an SSL secure socket.
Geographical Analysis of Crime Data Using Spatial Partitioning Trees
Implemented a 2D tree and used Prims Algorithm to solve the Traveling Sales Person Problem to allow logarithmic time lookup for all the crimes committed in a given geographical area. Integrated results with Google Earth for intuitive visualization.
LZW compressor
Implemented Lempel-Ziv Welch Compression algorithm to compress and decompress both binary and ASCII files. Used bit manipulation techniques to write an 8-bit data into a 12-bit key and used a custom designed hashmap with 127 indexes to accommodate the 12-bit key and its corresponding bit value. Achieved an average compression ratio of 5 : 2 on ASCII and 7 : 5 on binary files.
QA Pipeline with Learning
Developed a Question Answering Pipeline using Python on Quasar-S dataset. Used Scikit-learn machine learning library to perform text feature extraction using TF-IDF vectors and Count vectors & classification using Multi-Layer Perceptron, Multinomial Naïve Bayes and Support Vector Machine Classifiers. Evaluated combination of various Featurizer & Classifiers to achieve 54% accuracy in answering cloze-style questions.
RBT Spellchecker
Implemented a spellchecker using Red-Black Tree which is an implementation of a self-balancing binary search tree. Achieved an average case lookup time of O(log n).
Text Annotation and Segmentation
Developed a Java based application to segment and annotate text to support natural language processing. Used techniques like Jaccard ranker, Question Coverage ranker, Answer Coverage ranker, Set ranker, Composite ranker, and Min Mean and Max combiner to rate and rank the accuracy of the annotation for NLP.
Homer Consulting
Designed and developed a relational database model for a large-scale consulting firm to capture employee details using Oracle 11G. Performed ER Modeling, Normalization, Data Manipulation, Transaction Control, SQL Analytics and SQL Reporting using SQL Functions, Regular Expression and Advance Grouping Functions on an elaborate dataset.
Personal Fitness Trainer App
Built a JavaFX GUI based workout recommender system. The application used a randomized algorithm to recommend exercises based upon user’s time and calorie preferences. Elements of Java and JavaFX like Beans, Collections, Stage, and Scene were used to create the application.
Statistical Analysis of Software Maintenance Metrics
Performed Statistical analysis on a large dataset using Minitab to gauge time required to deliver and maintain software projects. Built and analyzed multiple regression models to establish correlations among parameters and suggested measures to improve productivity.
Sri Vani Vidyashala High School – Online Admission
Developed a .Net MVC web app to automate the admission for a school using technologies like Bootstrap, C#, CSS, JS, and SQL. Eliminated dependency on cumbersome excel files to store data, and paper-based application process. Introduced E-application for admissions.
Online Energy Audit and Renewable Energy Management System
• Application to automate electrical energy audit & generate recommendations to conserve electrical energy. 
• Achieved energy conservation of up to 18% causing significant monetary benefits. 
• Technologies: ASP.Net, Bootstrap, CSS, Google Chart API, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, MS SQL, VB.Net 
• Highlight: A half-page news article appeared about the project on Daily Thanthi, a leading Tamil News daily.
•Presented a paper on Online Energy Audit and Renewable Energy Management System at ICCUBEA, Pune. Published in IEEE Xplore journal. E-ISBN: 9781509032914; PoD ISBN: 9781509032921
Criminal Record Management Application
A three tier web application demonstrating functionalities to insert, update, store and retrieve felon details.
Rotaract
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Member
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IBM Certified Specialist in Rational Team Concert
IBM
Microsoft Certified Associate in Database Administration Fundamentals
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Associate in Web Development Fundamentals
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft
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Navaneeth Rao
Senior Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco Bay Area
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Sujay Sarkhel
Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Santa Clara, CA
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Neha Tikoo
AI and Analytics at Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto, CA
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Bhanu Teja Sriram
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Jose, CA
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Kumar Gaurav
Google Certified Cloud Architect, JanusGraph, Principal Big Data Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Jose, CA
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Neethu Sundar
Senior Staff Software Engineer | Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco Bay Area
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NISHANTH RAO P
Big Data Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA
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Chawinroj (Charles) Eurnithilert
Senior Big Data Engineer at Apple
San Jose, CA
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Kim Phelps
Software Developer at Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto, CA
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Roshni Inamdar
DevOps Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Santa Clara, CA
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Suyash Ail
Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks | MS-ECE Purdue University
Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Area
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Rutvij Trivedi
Technical Support Engineer, VM series, at Palo Alto Networks
Fremont, CA
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Karthik A.
Engineering at Pinterest
Sunnyvale, CA
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Sukesh Gandham
Research Assistant | Python | Data Visualization | Azure| PowerApps | Master's of Engineering - Concordia University |
Montreal, QC
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Nageswararao Eslavath
Senior SDET at EPAM Systems
Hyderabad
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Raj Katta
Senior Data Architect at Sema4
New York City Metropolitan Area
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Aditya Kohli
Data Engineer at Facebook
San Francisco Bay Area
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Nishika Chopra
Data Engineer at Amazon
Bellevue, WA
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Deep Patel
Data @ Robinhood
San Francisco Bay Area
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Rohan Vartak
Data Scientist at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area
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