Akhil Teja Balabadruni

About Akhil Teja Balabadruni

Information Technology professional with a Master\'s Degree in Information Technology and Analytics from Rutgers Business School and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) focused in Electronics and Communications Engineering from RVCE, Bangalore.Skilled in Corporate Social Responsibility, Event Management, Team Building, Youth Leadership, and International Relations.

Experience

1. Data Engineer

   CME Group

   Jan 2023 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Data Engineering Consultant• Data Enablement System (DES) & Marketplace Onboarding: • Designed and implemented DES to onboard massive, real-time financial datasets onto a marketplace for hedge funds and algo traders. • Leveraged Google Cloud Storage (GCS), secure RESTful APIs, and automated pipelines to ingest billions of data points daily, accelerating data availability by 35%.• Enterprise Data & Application Migrations: • Led the migration of continuous, high-volume stock exchange data from AWS S3 and Oracle to Google Cloud Platform, ensuring seamless real-time data flow. • Orchestrated workflows with UC4 and built Python scripts for automation, reducing operational costs by 30% and downtime by 40%.• Regulatory Data Enrichment & Streaming: • Developed processes to enrich regulatory datasets, maintaining strict data integrity and compliance across live trading feeds. • Deployed Kafka and Flink with Kaomon for proactive monitoring, cutting data latency by 25% and enhancing real-time analytics.• Kubernetes & CI/CD: • Deployed containerized applications on Kubernetes, integrating robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g, Jenkins, Argo) to achieve a 99.9% deployment success rate. • Accelerated release cycles by 20%, enabling rapid iteration and reliable production rollouts.• SQL ETL & BigQuery: • Engineered SQL-based ETL processes for multi-billion daily records, loading into BigQuery for advanced analytics and faster reporting. • Optimized query performance, reducing processing times by 25% and improving decision-making speed.• Workflow Orchestration & Monitoring: • Adopted Argo Workflows for complex data pipeline orchestration, halving incident resolution time. • Established comprehensive logging/alerting to ensure system reliability and streamline troubleshooting.

Education

• Rutgers Business School

  Master's degree, Information Technology and Analytics

  2020 — 2021

• Narayana Olympiad School

  High School

  2007 — 2011

• RV College Of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2011 — 2015

Skills

• Event Management
• Leadership Development
• Team Leadership
• Ngos
• Microsoft Office
• Public Speaking
• Powerpoint
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Youth Leadership
• Teamwork
• Team Management
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Market Research
• Team Building
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Marketing Strategy
• English
• Business Development
• International Relations
• Time Management
• Public Relations
• Business Strategy