Mahesh Yadav Kurra

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ABOUT MAHESH YADAV KURRA

Mahesh is a highly accomplished Senior Data Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing, building, and optimizing large-scale data and AI-driven systems across on-prem Hadoop and modern cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, and Databricks. He brings strong expertise in ETL architecture, big data engineering, distributed computing, and cloud-native analytics, with hands-on proficiency in Python, SQL, PySpark, Hive, Impala, Hadoop, Snowflake, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and multiple CI/CD frameworks.He has led high-impact data initiatives at Fortune 500 organizations such as Nike and Michaels, delivering advanced reporting, scalable lakehouse pipelines, and performance-optimized workflows. Mahesh has demonstrated experience in LLMs, NLP, and Generative AI, contributing to Nike’s GenAI Flash Data IQ platform by integrating Meta Llama models, AI agents, and prompt engineering to provide deeper business insights.His background includes migrating large ecosystems from Hadoop to Databricks and GCP, enhancing data quality frameworks using Spark Expectations, automating unit testing, and implementing cost-efficient pipelines supporting consumer analytics, supply chain, inventory planning, sales forecasting, and retail operations.Mahesh has a proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, improving critical pipelines (e.g, reducing consumer sales pipeline runtime by 50%), modernizing large-scale platforms, and driving cross-functional alignment with BI, supply chain, OMS, and merchandising groups. He also has extensive experience building data quality frameworks, platform upgrade testing, real-time Kafka streaming, and supporting enterprise-grade data platforms aligned with Agile practices.With strong communication skills, leadership capabilities, and hands-on mastery of big data and cloud technologies, Mahesh consistently delivers scalable, high-performance, and business-oriented data solutions across diverse industries including retail, consumer analytics, supply chain, and healthcare.Note: Mahesh is on an H-1B visa and need sponsorship to on Full time/W2 roles.