Anudeep Katangoori

Lead Engineer – Cloud/Big Data at Lowe's Inc

Designed Data Lakehouse solutions integrating BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Dataproc for scalable AI/ML workloads in GCP. Led migration from on-prem to GCP, optimizing workloads across BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Pub/Sub while reducing operational costs. Implemented network security architecture (VPC Service Controls, Private Google Access, Google Cloud Armor), cost monitoring dashboards, and IAM integration. Optimized Spark jobs and Azure Databricks workflows; mentored team on ELK logging and governance with Atlas and Ranger for data masking.

Senior Data/Cloud Engineer at Walmart Labs

Onboarded 12 LOBs into support model; set up DistCp pipelines to migrate data from HDP to CDP and then to GCP. Migrated legacy on-prem predictive analytics to Vertex AI Pipelines and deployed Vertex AI Endpoints for real-time predictions with integrated monitoring. Led migration to cloud-native architectures, enabling cost savings and performance improvements; built dashboards for monitoring healthcare and population health analytics.

Big Data Administrator at American Express

Patched and upgraded 700+ node MapR cluster; implemented high availability for Ranger KMS and Ranger Admin; automated Hive stats collection to support CBO; integrated with third-party tools (Jethro, Zeppelin, Dr. Elephant); performed OS/security patching and capacity planning; led automation via Ansible and Python.

Sr. Big Data Engineer at Bandwidth Inc

Led 3 Hadoop Admins; on-boarding of applications on Hadoop; capacity planning; implemented HA for YARN, Ranger, and Kerberos; automated Hive stats for query performance; supported BI tools (Talend, Kyvos) and metadata masking with Atlas/Ranger; led AWS POC/DR initiatives and HDP upgrades; designed 12-node disaster recovery cluster on AWS.

Hadoop Analyst at Argus Information and Advisory Services Inc

Migrated data from MySQL to ETL then to Hadoop Data Lake; led data migration for PayPal-related projects; identified KPIs for analytics over the data lake; implemented Kerberos integration and Sentry-based access control; created Hive external tables and migrated to Parquet; automated batch jobs with UC4 and collaborated with application teams on OS/Hadoop updates.

Big Data Consultant at Department of Administrative Services - State of Ohio

Prepared BRD/FRD for enhancements; managed cross-functional teams; conducted daily scrums; presented POCs to technical and non-technical audiences; built high availability with Zookeeper and Quorum Journal Nodes; upgraded CDH from 4 to 5; designed and enhanced Splunk dashboards; implemented partitioning/bucketing in Hive; managed Kafka/Zookeeper clusters.

Big Data Consultant at EMC Corporation

Trained on EMC products; built 10-node Hadoop cluster for a casino; deployed Pivotal HD multinode cluster; implemented Parquet/Sequence File formats; performed sentiment analysis with Python, R, and Mahout; migrated Teradata tables to GPDB/Hadoop; contributed to Pivotal data products such as GemFireXD and HAWQ.

Associate Programmer at NC Department Of Transportation

Assisted in the development/testing of applications on Apache Struts and DB2; created Productivity module using JSP and CORBA web services; contributed to core web applications.

Jr. Big Data Admin at Apex Analytix

Onboarded data pipelines; wrote shell scripts; contributed to OS patching and automation; provided support for Hadoop ecosystem components.