Summary
Biswaraj Kar is a Principal Software Engineer at athenahealth leading data engineering and analytics for epocrates, with over a decade of experience building large-scale, production data platforms that power clinical and commercial decisioning. He designed a terabyte-scale Snowflake data lake and a high-throughput Java WebFlux + Kafka real-time pipeline that ingests 20–40M events/day with multi-year uptime, and consolidated disparate reporting into a single Tableau/Snowflake framework saving six figures in annual costs. His skill set spans Snowflake, Teradata, AWS, Kafka, BI tools and reactive Java microservices, coupled with applied AI/NLP and visualization expertise. A former Forbes Under30 Scholar with hands-on delivery at TripAdvisor, Teradata and Infosys, he blends deep technical ownership with cross-functional product collaboration. Notably, he pairs rigorous academic foundations in database systems and AI from Northeastern with a track record of turning chaotic multi-vendor data into reliable, decision-ready assets.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science Concentration: Database Systems & Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science Concentration: Database Systems & Artificial Intelligence at Northeastern University