Usman Kunnath
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Engineer and Developer
Tamilpadi, Tamil Nadu, India
Toptal member since October 24, 2023
Usman is a senior technical lead engineer with a history of partnering with executives to define, architect, and develop solutions. He is well-versed in project and product management, software delivery lifecycle, Agile, and customer relationship building. An open-minded professional who leverages cross-functional collaboration to drive effectiveness, Usman has thrived in various areas, including solution design, architecting, optimization, and maintenance of data engineering products.
Portfolio
Experience
- Unix Shell Scripting - 8 years
- Apache Hive - 5 years
- Hadoop - 5 years
- Big Data - 5 years
- Python - 4 years
- PySpark - 3 years
- Spark - 3 years
- Google Cloud - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Spark, Apache Hive, Hadoop, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Functions, Scala, Unix Shell Scripting, PySpark, Google Cloud Dataproc, SQL
The most amazing...
...data engineering products I've delivered leveraged Big Data, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Google Cloud, and related technologies.
Work Experience
Staff Engineer
PayPal
- Developed a generative AI Chat-GPT integrated use case using Python to aid PayPal merchants in product integration. I architected and developed a web data pipeline solution that helps to generate web data that feeds into the large language model.
- Implemented a subscription pattern detection and classification engine using Spark to detect customer transaction frequency and amount patterns and classify them into multiple buckets.
- Led the Dataproc image version upgrade for various projects.
- Optimized Dataproc jobs, saving more than $100,000.
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
- Implemented a robotic solution to analyze the events in the marketing and personalization ecosystem and provide quick insights to the marketing and engineering teams to help them adopt the best solution for a given event.
- Developed analytical solutions for American Express.
- Oversaw junior colleagues' work regarding coding and feature implementations.
Associate Consultant
Atos
- Handled a recommendations engine that helps card members get more out of the places they usually visit, showing them offers and new places to discover based on their card usage.
- Collaborated with data stabilization, showing specific information, including merchants' financial status, performance, and revenue goals. American Express users and client managers use this data for data analysis.
- Assisted with Mystic, a platform for business insights, analytics, reporting, and campaign execution with internal and 3rd-party data that drives American Express' advantage to merchants.
Experience
AI Chat-GPT Project for PayPal Product Integration
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Anna University - Chennai, India
Certifications
Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark
Databricks
PCAP – Certified Associate in Python Programming
Python Institute
IBM InfoSphere (DataStage)
IBM
ITIL Foundation Certificate
EXIN
Skills
Libraries/APIs
PySpark, REST APIs
Tools
Google Cloud Dataproc, Jenkins, BigQuery, GitHub, IBM InfoSphere (DataStage), Apache Airflow
Languages
Python, SQL, Scala
Frameworks
Spark, Hadoop, Apache Spark
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), ITIL, ETL
Storage
Apache Hive, Databases, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud, Data Pipelines
Platforms
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Linux
Other
Unix Shell Scripting, Big Data, Data Engineering, Data Analysis, Data Analytics, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Functions, APIs, Data Warehouse Design, SSH, ITIL V3 Foundation Certified, Computer Engineering, Dataproc
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