Krishna Chaitanya Dintakurthi

About Krishna Chaitanya Dintakurthi

Senior Data Engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable data pipelines and data platforms. Strong background in Spark, SQL, Snowflake, ETL/ELT, batch and streaming processing, and distributed systems.Experienced in designing end-to-end data architectures, optimizing query performance, handling large datasets, and supporting analytics, reporting, and AI/ML workloads. Hands-on with data modeling, schema design, orchestration, and production monitoring.Increasingly focused on AI/ML data foundations, including feature pipelines, vector-based data workflows, and GenAI-enabled applications. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, clean system design, and ownership of production data systems.Open to Senior / Lead Data Engineer roles in data-driven, product-focused teams.

Experience

1. Senior Data Engineer

   Vanguard

   Mar 2025 — Present · PA, US

   Building Python libraries to ingest data and create Iceberg tables, improving data management. • Owned AWS Glue + Iceberg platform processing 5+ TB/day, reducing query cost by 38% and improving SLA from 6h → 1.5h • Developed DBT views for Iceberg tables on Dremio, enabling faster and more effective data analysis.• Built AWS Lambdas for ingesting data from Avro formats, utilizing Pyarrow and Pyiceberg for enhanced performance.

Education

• GITAM Deemed University

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech

  2011 — 2015

• Northern Illinois University

  Master's degree, Computer Science