Summary
Suhas Hegde is a Senior Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, data-driven solutions from San Ramon, California. At Rakuten Rewards he has progressed from intern to senior engineer, leading large-scale migrations to Airflow, automating 400+ Spark jobs and developing distributed A/B testing and transformation pipelines with Python and R. He favors functional-programming techniques and brings deep practical experience in data visualization, text mining, databases, and Spark-based distributed computing. Passionate about tooling and edge projects (Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi shows his tinkering side), he blends rigorous academic grounding—a 4.0 MS in Computer Science—with hands-on engineering to deliver reliable, production-ready data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Finance, General, 3.42, Bachelor's degree, Finance, General, 3.42 at Karnatak University
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at Frostburg State University