Summary
Bhagyashree Padalkar is a Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building data architectures, ETL pipelines, and ML-driven analytics for products at Facebook and research institutions. She blends production-grade Python, Spark, SQL and Presto expertise with a strong research background in decision-making and cognitive data from Max Planck and IIT Guwahati. An active open-source contributor and longtime Fedora and Mozilla collaborator, she has led community analytics, mentored multiple Google Summer of Code students, and co-founded Fedora’s Diversity & Inclusion team. Passionate about using AI to expand opportunities for people with disabilities, she pairs technical rigor with community-first design to turn inclusive research into practical product impact.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computing, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computing at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Master's degree, Informatics, Master's degree, Informatics at Technical University Munich
English, Hindi, Marathi, German