V Rithik

About V Rithik

I’m a Senior Data Engineer with 6+ years of experience building large-scale data platforms and real-time data pipelines across cloud and distributed big data systems.Currently working at Mastercard on data engineering systems that support fraud analytics and decision intelligence platforms. My work focuses on building and maintaining Spark-based data pipelines that process high-volume transaction data using technologies such as Apache Spark, Scala, Python, Kafka, and Hadoop.I have experience designing scalable data architectures, optimizing distributed processing workloads, and supporting production data platforms used for analytics, monitoring, and machine learning applications.Technical focus areas:Apache Spark • Scala • Python • Kafka • Hadoop • Data Engineering • Distributed Systems

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

   Mastercard

   Jul 2025 — Present · O\'Fallon, MO, US

   Senior Software Engineer working on large-scale fraud and decision intelligence data pipelines. Responsible for building and maintaining Spark-based data processing applications that ingest and transform high-volume transaction data across Hadoop and streaming platforms.Key responsibilities include developing Spark (Scala/PySpark) applications, working with Kafka-based ingestion pipelines, managing data in HDFS/Iceberg tables, and supporting model monitoring systems such as Model Aggregates and Dynamic Calibration. I also work with Splunk and Qlik dashboards for operational monitoring and analytics reporting, while contributing to CI/CD pipelines and production deployments in a Cloudera-based big data environment.

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH)

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science