Summary
Ashwath Sampath is an experienced Data Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building ETL pipelines, data integration frameworks and analytics solutions, currently contributing at LSEG after senior data engineering work at SteelEye. He designs reusable Python-based ETL components and orchestrations (Prefect, Kafka, AWS Batch/SQS) to ingest diverse inputs into Elasticsearch and data lakes, and has maintained SDKs, CI/CD pipelines and production systems. His background spans industry and academia—co-authoring conference papers and building an academic search engine while at the University of Freiburg—bringing a research-informed approach to practical data problems. He also built an end-to-end transcription system combining PyTorch language identification with multiple transcription providers, reflecting a knack for blending ML prototypes with robust engineering. Based in Bengaluru, he mentors peers, leads interviews and consistently drives reliable, test-covered delivery across cross-functional Agile teams.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at The University of Freiburg
Nanodegree Data Engineering, Nanodegree Data Engineering at Udacity
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology
English, German, Tamil, Hindi