Manohar Thakkellapati

Experience

1. Senior Data Engineer

   Mayo Clinic

   Jun 2023 — Present · US

   Architected and implemented a scalable Enterprise Data Lake on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to support storage, processing, analytics, and reporting of large, fast-changing datasets. Leveraged GCP services—including Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Monitoring—to build robust data platforms. Developed ETL pipelines using PySpark and Cloud Dataflow (Apache Beam), integrating structured and semi-structured data from multiple sources into BigQuery. Migrated legacy workflows from on-prem HDFS to GCP, improving efficiency, scalability, and maintainability.Processed real-time data streams from Kafka and orchestrated complex workflows using Apache Airflow (Cloud Composer). Containerized ML models with Docker and deployed on GKE and Vertex AI for scalable inference. Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Terraform, and developed ML models including Logistic Regression, KNN, and Gradient Boosting. Created interactive dashboards in Tableau connected to BigQuery to provide actionable business insights.Implemented monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning for pipelines and GCP resources. Mentored junior engineers and guided teams on best practices for GCP architecture, data pipelines, and workflow design.Environment: Spark, PySpark, Python, Kafka, GCP (Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub), Vertex AI, Docker, GKE, Terraform, Tableau, ETL, Git/GitHub.

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master's degree, Computer Science