Summary
Rasika Warade is a data engineer with 11 years of experience building personalization and data-driven systems, currently shaping recommendation infrastructure at Spotify. She brings deep expertise in Java, Hadoop-ecosystem ETL, MapReduce, and machine learning—skills honed across roles at Shopify, Digital Reasoning and IBM where she led ML-driven search and productionized NLP/knowledge-graph solutions. Comfortable collaborating with data scientists and customers, she has a track record of taking POCs to production, architecting pipelines for new data sources, and mentoring cross-functional teams. A Colorado State CS master’s graduate, she combines strong engineering rigor with a practical, product-oriented approach to personalization challenges in large-scale environments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Colorado State University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at Pune Institute of Computer Technology