Summary
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Data Engineering Skills
Software Engg Skills
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Charles Vinodh Loorduraj

Seattle,WA

Summary

A Fullstack Senior Data Engineer who, in addition to classical data engineering, could wield expertise in software engineering and recent agentic AI development. I also specialize in the area of clickstream and video activity feed analytics, with extensive experience in privacy-friendly data collection strategies.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Data Engineer

Apple Inc.
Seattle, WA
12.2022 - Current
  • Primary owner of app and content analytics on Apple TV Plus and Fitness+ services.
  • Owned analytics for various features in Apple Tv+ and Fitness+ features.
  • Lead architect and developer for data processing frameworks built on top of both Apache Spark and Flink engines.
  • Built ephemeral test containers for running Spark integration tests using Kind (K8s in Docker) instances.

Senior Cloud Data Engineer

Google
Bangalore, Karnataka
05.2022 - 12.2022
  • Served as GCP consultant for major South Asian client, Flipkart
  • Managed a team of consultants and ran the overall project for GCP Dataproc services for the Flipkart client

Lead

Atlassian Inc
Bengaluru, Karnataka
10.2020 - 05.2022
  • Lead the migration of Atlassian commerce platform from a legacy system to a new commerce platform that managed all products offered by Atlassian
  • built a Slack bot to initiate and manage pipeline deployments
  • Built a spark based framework to handle automatically merge data from multiple different streams into a single stream with support for automatic schema evolution.

Software Engineer (Data)

Groupon Inc
Chicago, IL
01.2013 - 09.2020
  • Designed and developed datamarts for web log analytics and email interaction tracking.
  • Architected a relational database log reader replication engine using Debezium, Tungsten, and Apache Spark.
  • Created a Quartz-powered scheduler web application to automate various tasks.
  • Developed a web-based API service for managing state in data pipelines.
  • Engineered a web-based ETL manager tool enabling non-engineers to construct data integration workflows.

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
11.2009 - 01.2013
  • I worked on developing and engineering the Enterprise Data system while working as an Associate at Cognizant.
  • Built applications in Java to compare data between two disparate data sources, and built Swing-based applications to assist efficient data monitoring.
  • Used SSIS/SSAS applications to design and develop online reporting solutions.
  • Market research using PASW/SPSS tools in the apparel/garments market.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Loyola Institute of Engineering

Data Engineering Skills

  • Spark
  • Flink
  • Kafka
  • Distributed system

Software Engg Skills

  • Scala
  • Kotlin
  • Python

Other skills

  • working on MCP servers and AI Agentic frameworks for developer productivity
  • built multiple Web/CLI apps

Certification

  • 2012 - Teradata 12 Certified Solution Developer
  • 2022 - Google Cloud Certified - Professional Data Engineer

Timeline

Senior Data Engineer

Apple Inc.
12.2022 - Current

Senior Cloud Data Engineer

Google
05.2022 - 12.2022

Lead

Atlassian Inc
10.2020 - 05.2022

Software Engineer (Data)

Groupon Inc
01.2013 - 09.2020

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2009 - 01.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Loyola Institute of Engineering
Charles Vinodh Loorduraj