Ashok Choppadandi
Lead Software Engineer at Epsilon India
Telangana, India
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Top SchoolAshok Choppadandi is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience in big data and distributed systems, specializing in Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and cloud-native deployments. He has led cross-functional teams to productionize data governance (Apache Atlas), migrate Spark versions to leverage Adaptive Query Execution, and modernize CI/CD with Docker, Bamboo and JFrog Artifactory. Known for cutting long-running ETL jobs from days to hours, he combines deep performance tuning with practical automation—creating Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests and Airflow pipelines for reliable deployments. His career spans enterprise firms like Epsilon, J.P. Morgan and Nielsen, where he built real-time Kafka Streams solutions, Spark Structured Streaming pipelines, and migration strategies from Oracle to Hadoop/ADLS. A certified Hadoop & Spark developer and mentor, he emphasizes DevOps culture and developer productivity, having created developer-ready Docker images and reproducible builds. Off the obvious path, he pairs this platform work with data engineering curiosity—implementing Spark unit testing and custom Hadoop IO formats to improve quality and throughput.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech, Information Technology, A+, Master of Technology - MTech, Information Technology, A+ at JNTUH College of Engineering JagityalaBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, A+, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, A+ at BV Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT)
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (31)
spark-structured-streaming9
sink7
spark-streaming6
streaming5
elk5
atlas5
spark-ml5
spark4
apache-spark4
apache-atlas4
kafka4
metadata4
dockerfile4
elasticsearch4
docker3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AshokKumarChoppadandi/docker-images
Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
AshokKumarChoppadandi/JavaExamples
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Java Examples
Contributions:13 PRs, 139 pushes, 12 branches in 7 months
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