Summary
Bala K is an Azure Data Engineer with a decade of software experience and over six years focused on designing and delivering data engineering solutions across on-premises and cloud environments. He builds end-to-end data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Delta Lake, and Snowflake, and has migrated complex SQL systems to modern cloud data platforms while implementing CI/CD for faster analyst delivery. Bala combines big-data tooling—Spark, Kafka, Hive, HBase—with strong SQL, Python/Scala, and ETL expertise, and has applied statistical and ML-ready preprocessing to support analytics and production ML workflows. Notably, he has engineered real-time streaming solutions for IoT and transactional use cases and automated daily ingestion and validation processes in Databricks. Based in Florida, he pairs hands-on development with solid governance practices—data masking, encryption, auditing—and a track record of reducing operational turnaround through process improvements.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer