Reviewed by Aditya Kumar · Last reviewed 2026-03-24
**Situation**: Recent work spans real-time analytics, lake migration, ML features. **Projects**: (1) Real-time platformâKafka, Flink, ClickHouse; (2) Lake migrationâon-prem Hadoop to S3+Spark; schema evolution; (3) ML feature pipelinesâbatch + stream for recommendations....
Situation: Recent work spans real-time analytics, lake migration, ML features.
Projects: (1) Real-time platformâKafka, Flink, ClickHouse; (2) Lake migrationâon-prem Hadoop to S3+Spark; schema evolution; (3) ML feature pipelinesâbatch + stream for recommendations.
Result: 50% latency reduction; 30% cost savings. Focus on reliability, observability, maintainability. Stack: Python, Spark, SQL, Airflow, AWS/GCP.
Pro-Move: Lead with quantified outcomes; mention tech choices and why.
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