Prajakta Yerpude
Senior Team Lead - Data Engineering Manager
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolPrajakta Yerpude is a Senior Team Lead and Data Engineering Manager with nine years of experience building cloud-native data platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams in the Greater Chicago Area. She has driven end-to-end data domain initiatives and product development—helping Discover accelerate fraud insights by 60% and cut data defects and manual effort by roughly 40% through Snowflake, a Cloud Data Fabric, and automated ETL pipelines. Prajakta pairs hands-on expertise in AWS (Redshift, S3, DMS), Kubernetes/OpenShift, Python, and DevOps automation with a strong track record of operationalizing integrations from Salesforce, Google Sheets, and legacy systems into reliable analytics warehouses. She excels at translating cross-functional business needs into unified, auditable data domains and has repeatedly shipped reusable, rule-based ingestion architectures that scale. With advanced CS and MBA credentials and experience converting thousands of spreadsheets into refreshable Redshift tables, she blends technical depth with pragmatic product leadership to shorten time-to-insight.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
225reputation
49kreached
2answers
17questions
Github Skills (11)
data-ingestion6
amazon-redshift6
etl6
sql6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-s36
gcloud6
google-analytics6
chatbot6
php1
salesforce1
Github contributions (5)
pyerpude/Google-APIs-in-Python
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
pyerpude/Fake-News-Challenge
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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