Keerthan Vantakala
Senior Staff Data Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolKeerthan Vantakala is a Senior Staff Data Engineer based in San Diego with a decade of experience applying data engineering and analytics to industrial and commercial domains. A chemical engineer by training and founder of 6C Solutions, he uniquely blends process engineering instincts with modern data platforms to help plants and supply chains squeeze more value from existing data. He’s led analytics platforms and data infrastructure at startups and scale-ups—building pipelines, APIs, and monitoring systems—and currently drives data engineering at Shopify. As an independent consultant he served 30+ clients (including a Big 4 and multinational food companies) and consistently ranked in the top 1% on Upwork. Keerthan also took a year-long sabbatical to travel through 25 countries after his 2023 wedding, a sign of his curiosity and resilience outside of work. He combines hands-on implementation experience with a founder’s product sensibility, making him effective at turning complex industrial problems into operational analytics.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Oswego East HighschoolBachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Telugu, Spanish
Stackoverflow
45reputation
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Github Skills (38)
jupyter10
finance10
charting10
no-javascript10
bioinformatics10
gui-framework10
modeling10
flask10
plotly10
data-science9
plotly-dash9
python9
react9
julia9
data-visualization9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vantaka2/crypto_sentiment_analysis-
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 52 commits, 21 PRs in 1 month
pythondjangosentimentcryptofuels
vantaka2/crypto_dash_app
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
A web application built on Plotly Dash
Contributions:65 commits, 48 PRs, 61 pushes in 23 days
pythondashweb-applicationplotly-dashplotly
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