Sai Santhosh Channaka
Data Engineer • New York, NY • s*******************@gmail.com • +15******366 • drivetube.ai/•••••
Professional Summary
Data Engineer with 1.5 years of experience building scalable ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and ML-ready data platforms using Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, PySpark, and SQL to enable analytics and model-driven decision-making.
Technical Skills
Programming Languages: Python
Frameworks and Libraries: Pandas,NumPy,Matplotlib,Seaborn,Scikit-learn,TensorFlow,Keras
Databases: SQL,PostgreSQL,Snowflake,MySQL
Cloud and DevOps: Azure Data Factory,Azure Databricks,Azure Synapse,AWS S3,AWS EMR,AWS IAM
Data and Analytics: ETL design,Data pipeline orchestration,Data ingestion,Data validation,Dimensional modeling,Star schema,Snowflake schema,Data Vault,Tableau,Power BI,Regression,Classification,Time series analysis,LSTM,CNN,NLP,SHAP,Drift detection PSI, KS, KL Divergence
Skills: PySpark
Work Experience
3Zen Consulting Private Limited
Hyderabad, India
Data Engineer
Jan 2023 – Jun 2024
Hyderabad-based consulting firm delivering data engineering and analytics solutions for enterprise clients; supported end-to-end data ingestion, transformation, warehousing and reporting.
Tech Stack: Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, PySpark, Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Power BI
- Designed and implemented scalable ETL pipelines with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, PySpark and Python to ingest and transform heterogeneous enterprise datasets for analytics and ML consumption.
- Built and optimized data warehouse solutions using dimensional modeling (star/snowflake schemas) and Snowflake/PostgreSQL to centralize reporting data and improve downstream analytics reliability.
- Developed PySpark-based transformation workflows on Databricks to standardize and clean large datasets, improving data consistency and enabling downstream model training and business reporting.
- Implemented automated data validation and monitoring routines using Python and Databricks notebooks to detect schema drift and data quality issues, enforcing governance and compliance standards.
- Created interactive Power BI dashboards and prepared data marts that enabled business stakeholders to perform self-service analytics and monitor key performance indicators.
- Collaborated with product owners, analysts, and QA to translate business requirements into technical data models and ETL specifications, accelerating delivery of analytics features.
Projects
Web Thru AI and Data Analytics Platform
Tools Used: Python, SQL, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, PySpark
- Architected and implemented an end-to-end AI/data analytics platform for financial market research and predictive analytics, including ingestion pipelines, feature stores, and model input tables.
- Built automated pipelines and analytics workflows to support backtesting and production inference using Databricks, enabling repeatable experiments and model updates.
- Integrated visualization and reporting layers to present signals and model outputs to stakeholders for research and trading insights.
Regime Awareness Deep Ensemble (RADE) for Financial Market Prediction
Tools Used: CNN, LSTM, NLP, Python, TensorFlow, Keras
- Co-authored research on RADE, a hybrid ensemble combining CNNs for candlestick pattern recognition, LSTMs for regime classification, and NLP sentiment signals to improve market prediction robustness.
- Implemented CNN models for candlestick pattern extraction and LSTM networks for market regime classification, integrating technical and textual features for ensemble predictions.
- Validated model outputs against historical market data and prepared reproducible training pipelines to support ongoing research and model refinement.
AML Alert Classification Under Transaction Behavior Shifts
Tools Used: Python, Scikit-learn, SHAP, Drift detection, SQL
- Developed AML alert classification models using behavioral transaction features derived from a 900K+ transaction dataset to improve detection of suspicious activity.
- Implemented drift detection using PSI, KS and KL Divergence to identify changes in transaction behavior and trigger model re-evaluation when needed.
- Integrated SHAP explainability into model outputs to deliver transparent, auditable predictions for compliance teams and reduce false positives while maintaining recall.
Education
Pace University, Seidenberg School Of Computer Science and Information Systems
Master of Science (MS) in Data Science | Concentration: AI/ML Engineer • New York, NY • May 2026
ICFAI Tech School
Bachelor Of Science in Computer Science • Hyderabad, India • June 2023
Certifications
AWS Data Engineer Associate — AWS
AWS Machine Learning Engineer Associate — AWS
AWS AI Practitioner — AWS
AWS Generative AI Foundations — AWS
Google Data Analytics — Google
HackerRank SQL — HackerRank
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