Harish Rao
Senior Manager at PwC Acceleration Centers
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolHarish Rao is a Senior Manager at PwC Acceleration Centers in Bengaluru with over a decade of IT experience specializing in Quality Assurance, data warehouse testing, and ETL/BI reporting across insurance, investment banking, and hospitality domains. He combines hands-on QA expertise—spanning functional, GUI, database/ETL, conversion, and financial transaction testing—with leadership in reporting QA using tools like Informatica, Tableau, Power BI, MicroStrategy and Guidewire. As a Principal Data Engineer on GitHub, he has contributed to the high-profile Apache Airflow project by improving Snowflake connectivity and authentication, reflecting a strong focus on reliable data pipeline integrations. Known for bridging deep technical testing skills with data engineering sensibilities, he helps teams deliver auditable, production-ready analytics and conversion solutions.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bharat Matriculation School, KrishnagiriDiploma of Education Electrical Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Diploma of Education Electrical Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at IRT Polytechnic College - IndiaBachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
Github Skills (12)
apache-airflow10
database-management10
sql10
python10
snowflake10
data-engineering10
data-pipelines9
testing9
data-pipeline9
orchestration9
workflow-engine9
orchestra9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Mar 2023 - Nov 2023
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 6 PRs, 35 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Harish primarily contributed to the Airflow project by modifying and testing database connection hooks, specifically for Snowflake. Their work involved improving the functionality of `SnowflakeHook.get_sqlalchemy_engine`, including support for session parameters and private key authentication. These changes extended to testing, demonstrating a focus on data connectivity and workflow execution using SQL databases. Additionally, they made minor changes to example DAGs and integration with other providers, which shows a understanding of how to integrate and test Databricks SQL connections.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
harishkesavarao/airflow
Apr 2023 - Oct 2023
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Contributions:83 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
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