Akhila Krishnan
About Akhila Krishnan
Akhila Krishnan is a Senior Big Data Cloud Engineer with expertise in big data processing using Spark and cloud services like AWS. She has a background in data engineering and analysis, with experience at Wipro Limited and Quadraflake Consulting, and holds a B.Tech in Information Technology and an M.Tech in Data Science and Engineering.
Work at Altimetrik
Akhila Krishnan currently serves as a Senior Big Data Cloud Engineer at Altimetrik, a position she has held since 2021. In this role, she focuses on big data processing and cloud engineering, utilizing her extensive knowledge of various technologies. Based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, she contributes to projects that leverage big data solutions to meet client needs.
Previous Experience at Wipro Limited
Before joining Altimetrik, Akhila worked at Wipro Limited as a Data Engineer from 2016 to 2021. During her five years at Wipro, based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, she developed her skills in data engineering and gained experience in various data processing technologies. This role laid the foundation for her expertise in big data.
Education and Expertise
Akhila holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology, where she studied from 2012 to 2016. She further advanced her education by obtaining a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Data Science and Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, from 2019 to 2021. Her academic background supports her proficiency in big data technologies.
Technical Skills and Proficiencies
Akhila is proficient in using Spark for big data processing and has hands-on experience with various AWS services, including EC2, S3, EMR, and the ELK stack. She is skilled in Python programming for data analysis and engineering tasks and has expertise in writing queries using Teradata, Snowflake, and MongoDB. Additionally, she is experienced in utilizing Kafka Confluent for data streaming processes.
Early Career at Quadraflake Consulting
Akhila began her career as a Data Analyst at Quadraflake Consulting Private Limited in 2016, where she worked for four months. This initial experience in data analysis provided her with foundational skills that she later built upon in her subsequent roles in data engineering.