Shaji James
Senior Data Engineer
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolShaji James is a Senior Data Engineer based in Irvine, California with eight years of experience building high-throughput data pipelines, data lakes, and analytics platforms for hedge funds and enterprise clients. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Spark, PySpark, Delta Lake, AWS Glue, Databricks, and real-time tooling like Kafka to deliver performant, cost-optimized data architectures and automated integrity checks. At Luxoft he bridged investment, legal, and technology teams to ensure reliable production data for quantitative research, and previously led cross-functional teams to reduce development time by standardizing reusable ETL packages and migration tooling. He is founder of Ctrl4AI, where he develops ML helper libraries and strategy-led analytics solutions that emphasize automation and reproducibility. Recognized as a top performer for consecutive years, Shaji is comfortable translating research needs into production-grade systems and building observability and alerting that preempt data incidents. His background in both product development and technical training gives him a rare blend of delivery focus, tooling craftsmanship, and mentorship.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Systems Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA Systems Management at University of MadrasAnna University, Chennai
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
datetime6
pandas6
machine-learning6
unix6
python6
timestamp6
preprocessor6
data-analysis6
deep-learning4
data-science4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vkreat-tech/ctrl4ai
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
A helper package for Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms
Contributions:5 releases, 53 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year
pythondata-sciencedeep-learningmachine-learninglearning-algorithms
vkreat-tech/ctrl4bi
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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