Saurabh Chhajed
Staff Data Engineer
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolSaurabh Chhajed is a Staff Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade big data and ML platforms across cloud and on-prem environments. He has deep expertise in distributed processing (Spark, Hadoop, Trino), orchestration (Airflow), data lakes (Iceberg) and model engineering—having delivered merchant recommender systems and production online serving at scale using CatBoost, collaborative filtering and Word2Vec. Saurabh has a strong engineering pedigree in Java, Scala and Python, performance tuning of Spark/Hive jobs, and automated hyperparameter search that cut compute time substantially in prior roles. He blends hands-on implementation with team leadership and compliance-focused engineering, having built scalable data-security scanners and monitoring stacks with Grafana. Based in Hyderabad, he also authors technical books and reviews, signaling a commitment to knowledge sharing beyond day-to-day delivery.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at Institute of Engineering & Technology DAVV, Indore
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
kaggle10
twitter10
datasets10
hadoop9
r9
coreml9
catboost9
java9
gradient-boosting9
python9
classification9
machine-learning9
kafka9
data-mining9
gpu9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
saurzcode/twitter-stream
Feb 2015 - Oct 2022
Twitter-Kafka Data Pipeline
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 18 commits in 7 years 9 months
data-pipelinekafkatwitter
saurzcode/camus
Feb 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 9 years 8 months
linkedinkafkapipelinehdfs
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