Summary
Shivananda D is a results-driven Data Engineer with eight years of experience delivering scalable data pipelines and analytics solutions across retail, healthcare, and security domains. Currently on the Pricing Optimization team at CVS Health, he builds data products that help detect fraudulent claims and save millions in costs. His background includes senior roles at Target where he optimized space-planning and marketing analytics pipelines, and a compact but impactful stint at Lacework enabling product teams with core datasets. A Texas A&M MS graduate with a perfect GPA, he also contributes to the data engineering community as a writer and editor for Data Engineer Things. He blends hands-on pipeline engineering with practical business impact, and his career shows a pattern of taking end-to-end ownership—from data ingestion to decision-driving products.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Management Information Systems, General, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Management Information Systems, General, 4.0/4.0 at Texas A&M University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Kannada, English, Hindi