Alpesh Kulkarni
Principal Software Engineer at Optum
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlpesh Kulkarni is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting and delivering Big Data and ETL solutions. Currently driving engineering at Optum, he blends deep Hadoop/MapReduce and Java expertise with extensive legacy ETL and data warehousing skills across SSIS, DataStage, and COGNOS. He has led onshore teams and served as architect for Hydrograph, demonstrating an ability to design open tools that bridge traditional and big-data platforms. Comfortable across Unix/Linux, Pro*C, PERL, and mainframe technologies, Alpesh is adept at running multiple concurrent projects and quickly adopting new stacks. His background shows rare breadth—from MFCOBOL and JCL to modern distributed systems—making him a pragmatic integrator between legacy enterprise systems and cloud-native data architectures.
10 years of coding experience
SPM English SchoolBE, BE at Maharashtra Academy of Engineering (University of Pune)Diploma in Computer Technology, Diploma in Computer Technology at STES, SVCP
Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, German, English
Github Skills (8)
debugging10
cascading10
etl-framework10
hl79
spark9
etl9
apache-spark9
big-data9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alpeshk/Hydrograph
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
A visual ETL development and debugging tool for big data
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 21 branches in 7 months
debugging-toolbig-datasparkdebuggingetl
alpeshk/Cascading
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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