Kowshik Reddy
Data Engineer with extensive experience in designing and implementing robust data infrastructure solutions, specializing in healthcare and financial sectors
- Role
- Data Engineer at Optum
- Location
- Aurora, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Data Engineer
Sep 2023 — Present · Denver, CO, US
Architected and implemented end-to-end ETL pipelines using Apache Spark and Python, processing over 5 million healthcare claims daily with 78% accuracy, while reducing claims processing time by 40%.• Designed and deployed a Kafka-based streaming architecture capable of handling events per second, enabling real-time claims validation and fraud detection, reducing detection times from hours to minutes.• Utilized Azure services (Azure Data Lake, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics) to build a scalable data lake architecture managing 50+ TB of healthcare data. This reduced storage costs by 30% while ensuring full compliance with HIPAA regulations.• Improved query performance by 60% through advanced SQL optimization techniques and partitioning strategies in Azure Synapse Analytics, accelerating data retrieval for downstream analytics.• Developed and implemented automated data quality checks using Great Expectations, achieving a 98% accuracy rate in claims data validation, which reduced manual verification efforts by 75%.• Established CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub, accelerating deployment cycles by 3x and reducing integration issues by 40%, improving development agility and responsiveness to changes.• Developed real-time KPI dashboards using Tableau, offering immediate insights into pipeline performance, enabling data-driven decisions and optimization of pipeline processes.• Optimized MongoDB schema for efficient storage and querying of unstructured clinical data, reducing response times by 45% for over 100 concurrent users accessing the system.• Implemented robust monitoring and alerting systems using Grafana and Prometheus, which reduced system downtime by 70% and enabled real-time issue detection and resolution.• Collaborated with compliance and legal teams to establish and enforce data governance protocols that ensured 100% adherence to HIPAA regulations for handling Protected Health Information (PHI).
Education
Little Star High School, Adilabad
10
Osmania University
Bachelor of Engineering
University of Colorado Denver
Master of Science - MS
2022 — 2024
Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Hydernagar
Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching
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