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Hi, I’m

Nagarjuna Basupalli

Data Engineering Consultant/Data Scientist
Carver,Minnesota
Nagarjuna Basupalli

Summary

With 15 years of comprehensive IT expertise, I have excelled in roles spanning Analysis, Design, Development, Leadership, and Management of applications and data warehouses. Over the past 11 years, my focus has been on Healthcare Technology, where I've significantly contributed to the development of Data platform products. My technical proficiency spans Data Warehousing, Data Engineering, Azure, Data Visualization & Analytics, and Machine Learning & AI.

I possess in-depth knowledge across various project life cycle phases, including Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, and debugging, particularly in Agile Scrum Framework. A significant portion of my career has been dedicated to Healthcare Data, emphasizing government-funded services data and preventive care. I am an expert in ETL Tools, Relational Databases, NoSQL Databases, and have specialized knowledge in Azure/AWS Cloud, particularly in Data Engineering Tools. My expertise extends to AI, with hands-on experience in building Linear, Logistic, Classification, CNN’s, and Cognitive Services models, Generative AI Models.

I have actively contributed to ETL processes using tools such as Datastage, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, and Snowflake pipelines. Additionally, I've worked extensively on Streaming Services, leveraging Kafka, Kinesis, SNS, and SQS for Notification or Push services.

My leadership experience includes roles as a Technical Lead and Delivery Lead, where I've successfully guided teams. I have a track record of developing ML models for Healthcare Data, specializing in Preventive Analytics & Predictive Analytics. Designing Data Models and Data Architecture for application development is another area where I have demonstrated expertise.

I am well-versed in leveraging Cloud services for hosting services, data storage, analytics, and pipeline creation. My proficiency extends to creating Descriptive Analytics and Business Reports through Dashboards in Tableau, Power BI, and Splunk. In the realm of database design, I have experience in Dimensional Modeling, designing STAR and SNOW FLAKE Schemas. My skills include creating indexed views, complex stored procedures, triggers, and functions to ensure efficient data manipulation and consistent storage.

Throughout my career, I've demonstrated my ability in Data Engineering and kept upgrading my skillset to modern technologies to explore new possibilities

Overview

17
years of professional experience
7
years of post-secondary education
3
Certificates

Work History

OPTUM
Eden Prairie, MN

LEAD DATA ENGINEERING
01.2016 - Current

Job overview

  • Gathered, defined and refined requirements, led project design and oversaw implementation.
  • Evaluated project requirements to identify and mitigate risks.
  • Directly interacted with high-level customers to verify satisfaction and integrate feedback on in-process development projects.
  • Allied with other engineering leaders to plan, manage and coordinate teams around reaching prescribed development milestones.
  • Worked with customers or prospective customers to develop integrated solutions and lead detailed architectural dialogues to facilitate delivery of comprehensive solution.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects.
  • Delivered services to customer locations within specific timeframes.
  • Gained extensive knowledge in data engineering, analysis and reporting.
  • Gained extensive knowledge in Healthcare Interoperability, HEIDS Quality Measures, FHIR Resources.
  • Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
  • Analyzed large datasets to identify trends and patterns in customer behaviors.
  • Designed compliance frameworks for multi-site data warehousing efforts to verify conformity with state and federal data security guidelines (PHI/PII).
  • Collaborated on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks, maintaining data integrity and verifying pipeline stability.
  • Developed, implemented and maintained data analytics protocols, standards, and documentation.
  • Designed and developed analytical data structures.
  • Turned unstructured data into useful information by regression, classification, text-to-speech conversions, form reader.
  • Utilized data modeling and evaluation strategies to find patterns and predict unseen instances.
  • Selected appropriate datasets and data representation methods.
  • Designed internal process improvements to automate repetitive tasks, shortening data delivery times.
  • Unified disparate data structures and operating environments during revamps of processing facilities, data centers and more.

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP

TECHNICAL TEAM LEAD
09.2012 - 12.2015

Job overview

  • UCR Claims Behavioral & Dental Claims, Nevada Dental Claims, Cosmos Behavioral Claims As a Team lead responsible for Analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of UDW Rel5.0 CDB Gap Remediation and NICE Build out Projects in the Agile Scrum Framework
  • NICE Claims Re-design, NICE Claims Buildout Rel6.0, Rel7.0
  • Responsibilities
  • Create Data design strategy to integrate different kinds of data into Oracle using Datastage
  • Work on mapping documents, analyze the requirements
  • Develop jobs as per the requirements
  • Perform unit testing and system testing for the jobs built
  • Deploy the code to production
  • Work on gathering requirements from the business and stakeholders for release engineering
  • Mentor the team in design and architecture
  • Perform code reviews and requirement reviews with the team
  • Environment: Datastage 8.5, TERADATA, UNIX, Shell Scripts, Perl Scripting, TWS

WELLS FARGO

TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST
06.2009 - 08.2012

Job overview

  • EIW Data Warehouse team use ETL (Extract Transform Load) logic where the inputs are expected to come from the Mainframes or NDM’s and is loaded into EDW tables using the ETL Datastage and UNIX scripts and SQL’s from the Transformation applied as per the data needed and are loaded onto the Data Marts
  • CMODS is a Sub project of Secondary Marketing Systems (SMS) which deals with different types of Loans
  • The functionality of the application is to get the different types of loan files from different sources and work with the files by applying the transformations needed and send the data to the downstream team or application
  • CMODS is the Tier-11 application whose EOD processing has high criticality on the business
  • Responsibilities
  • Create Data design strategy to integrate different kinds of data into Oracle using Datastage
  • Work on mapping documents, analyze the requirements
  • Develop jobs as per the requirements
  • Perform unit testing and system testing for the jobs built
  • Deploy the code to production
  • Work on gathering requirements from the business and stakeholders for release engineering
  • Mentor the team in design and architecture
  • Perform code reviews and requirement reviews with the team
  • Environment: UNIX, Autosys, Datastage, Teradata SQL Assistant, DB2, Pac2000, Qpasa, Tpumps

IBM

ASSOCIATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER
01.2007 - 01.2008

Job overview

  • DBS is the one of the Biggest Bank in Singapore
  • As a part of their corporate banking operations they are using Flexcube Application
  • Flexcube is the World’s Leading Banking Application developed by IFlex Solutions
  • IBM is playing the role of AMS management for the bank
  • We do the production support for the Loan Module by coordinating with the Vendor & Users
  • Responsibilities
  • Production Support for the application
  • Work on tickets to resolve high priority issues
  • Work with DBA’s for any locks or issues with the Database in Production
  • Work with leadership and stakeholders in communicating the application daily performance
  • Work with users to closely monitor any live issues encountered
  • Clear case and Manage Now, Toad

Education

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS

Master of Science from Computer Science Engineering
02.2020 - 12.2022

University Overview

  • [Number] 3.19
  • Professional Development: [Subject] AI Certified

DVR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science and Information Technology, Information Technology
05.2002 - 04.2006

Skills

Cloud Data Engineering

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Accomplishments

  • M&R – Medicare & Retirement Level 2 Certified
  • Healthcare Interoperability Domain knowledge & experience working in HL7 FHIR Davinci and Resources & Standards
  • NCQA Quality Measures expertise & experience
  • Healthcare Data SME (SDOH, IoT, etc..)

Certification

Azure AI Fundamentals – Microsoft

Additional Information

  • HONORS & AWARDS , Managerial Excellence Bravo - Optum Jun 2021 Managerial Excellence in leading from front Live Leadership Award - Optum Sep 2020 Live Leadership Award for going above and beyond in leading from front delivering the key milestones Live Leadership - Optum Sep 2019 Live Leadership Award for going above and beyond in leading from front delivering the key milestones In-Progress Certifications/Learnings Designing and implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution – Certification Data Engineering using Databricks Associate – Certification Nagarjuna Basupalli - page 1 Nagarjuna Basupalli - page 1

Timeline

Azure AI Associate - Microsoft

10-2023
Azure Data Science Associate – Microsoft
09-2023
Azure AI Fundamentals – Microsoft
08-2023

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS

Master of Science from Computer Science Engineering
02.2020 - 12.2022

LEAD DATA ENGINEERING

OPTUM
01.2016 - Current

TECHNICAL TEAM LEAD

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP
09.2012 - 12.2015

TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST

WELLS FARGO
06.2009 - 08.2012

ASSOCIATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER

IBM
01.2007 - 01.2008

DVR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science and Information Technology, Information Technology
05.2002 - 04.2006
Nagarjuna BasupalliData Engineering Consultant/Data Scientist