Hetesh Gopala Krishna

About Hetesh Gopala Krishna

If you\'re hiring for Palantir Foundry — stop here. This profile is built for you.I\'m a data engineer and AI graduate student at the University of South Florida with 3+ years of real-world experience in data quality, Big Data engineering, and enterprise data platform development. My journey has been a deliberate build toward one goal: mastering Palantir Foundry to solve the hardest data problems at scale.Here\'s what I bring to the table:PALANTIR FOUNDRYI design and build Foundry data ontologies, Pipeline Builder workflows, and Object-based data models that connect complex, disparate enterprise data sources into unified, query-ready structures — turning messy raw data into decision-ready intelligence.ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL DATA DOMAINI spent 3+ years at ClearTax embedded with Chartered Accountants (CAs) and SMEs, translating complex GST, ITR, and TDS compliance requirements into airtight data quality frameworks. I speak accounting data fluently — and I bring that domain depth to every data model I build.HADOOP & BIG DATA ENGINEERINGAt inceptez, I got deep hands-on experience across the full Hadoop ecosystem — Spark, Hive, HDFS, Kafka, Sqoop, YARN — processing terabyte-scale datasets. That distributed systems foundation is exactly what makes my Palantir pipelines reliable at enterprise scale.WHAT I\'M PURSUING NOWMS in Artificial Intelligence & Business Analytics at USF, focused on Agentic AI, RAG systems, Generative AI, and ML — all of which I\'m actively integrating into Palantir Foundry use cases.Tech stack: Palantir Foundry | PySpark | Databricks | Python | SQL | ETL | BigQuery | Azure | TensorFlow | PyTorchOpen to internship and full-time roles in Palantir engineering, data platform development, or enterprise AI. Let\'s talk.

Experience

1. Data Quality Analyst

   ClearTax for Business

   Mar 2022 — Present

   Worked as a Data Quality Analyst for 3+ years at ClearTax — India\'s #1 tax and compliance SaaS platform — embedded in the accounting domain and collaborating daily with Chartered Accountants (CAs) and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to ensure data integrity across GST, ITR, and TDS workflows.Key contributions- Partnered with CAs and accounting SMEs to translate complex tax compliance requirements into automated data validation rules — ensuring financial data accuracy for millions of users- Identified and resolved data discrepancies in GST reconciliation and TDS records, reducing filing errors by 35% across high-volume accounting cycles- Built SQL and Python pipelines to validate, cleanse, and standardize structured financial data before downstream reporting and analytics- Worked closely with product and engineering teams to embed quality checkpoints into ClearTax\'s accounting workflows- Developed data dictionaries and quality frameworks informed by CA domain expertise — directly informing my current Palantir Foundry ontology design practice

Education

• University of South Florida

  Artificial intelligence and business analytics

• KL University

  Bachelor's degree

  2020