Summary
Sitaram Devarakonda is a Lead Data Engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale data platforms and AI-ready pipelines, currently driving enterprise data strategy at Vanguard. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Spark, Hadoop, Python and Java with cloud-first execution on Azure to deliver robust data lakes, ETL automation, and production-ready ML workflows. His career spans high-impact projects: generating and clustering citation networks of millions of nodes for NIH/NSF research evaluation and improving MCMC simulation performance by two orders of magnitude. Comfortable across RDBMS and NoSQL systems, he also automates complex data curation and anomaly detection at scale using SQL, APIs and CI tooling. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research-grade analytics and production engineering, and he’s driven cross-functional collaborations with publishers and global data vendors. He’s motivated by the “tetras” of digital transformation (IoT, Big Data, Cloud, AI) and aspires to lead teams that turn noisy data into measurable business value.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell