Summary
Deepak Telkar is a seasoned data and machine learning engineering leader with over a decade of experience building large-scale, fault-tolerant ETL and streaming systems across AWS and big data stacks. As Head of Machine Learning Engineering at WooliesX, he blends hands-on Spark and Python/Scala development with infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, Packer) to deliver production-grade pipelines and reduce data latency from days to minutes. His career spans high-throughput event processing at Samsung and Ticketek to early backend and messaging systems at Nokia, Yahoo!, and Motorola, giving him deep expertise in distributed systems and operationalizing ML/data workflows. Known for translating complex requirements into maintainable, testable software, he focuses on automation, observability and repeatable deployments. Based in Sydney, he pairs pragmatic engineering leadership with a history of performance tuning and platform-level optimizations that quietly drive business impact.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Army Public School, Secunderabad
Hindi, English