Navya Kanakala
Product Owner (Working Student) at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNavya Kanakala is a product-focused data engineer and emerging product owner with 9 years of experience building high-integrity data products across enterprises like Accenture and Merck. She blends hands-on PySpark/SQL engineering on platforms like Palantir Foundry with product strategy to translate complex business requirements into automated, auditable pipelines and regulatory-ready dashboards. At Merck she co-leads an industry-first Sustainability Dashboard using Generative AI to quantify Scope 1–3 footprints and co-runs communities of 50+ Data & AI professionals to foster practical innovation. Trained in AI and high-integrity systems, she brings DevOps discipline—unit testing, CI/CD, monitoring—and a knack for reducing feedback loops and manual effort through reusable playbooks. Outside the stack, she channels a storyteller’s sensibility into stakeholder alignment and community-building, fueled by hiking, painting, and a global perspective from working across India and Germany.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Intermediate, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry at Narayana Junior College - IndiaMaster of Science - MS, High Integrity Systems (Computer Science), Master of Science - MS, High Integrity Systems (Computer Science) at Frankfurt University of Applied SciencesBachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at Guru Ghasidas UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-SenftenbergKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
German, English
Github Skills (19)
amazon-ec23
python3
apache-kafka3
predictive-analytics3
agile3
vagrant3
science3
spark3
apache-spark3
machine-learning-algorithms3
machine-learning3
amazon-web-services3
analytics2
pandas2
kafka2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NavyaSreeKanakala/kafka-spark-nodejs
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
NavyaSreeKanakala/pig-hive-hcatalog-hue
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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