Sampath Rachakonda
Data Engineering Leader | Data Platform Strategy | Mentoring & Scaling High-Performance Teams | Azure | AWS
- Role
- Data Solution Architect Data Platform Leadership at EPAM Systems
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sampath Rachakonda
Strategic Data Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise cloud data platforms and leading high-performing global teams.I drive large-scale data platform transformations across Azure, AWS, and Databricks ecosystems, enabling AI/ML, analytics, and business-critical workloads for Fortune 500 clients.Core leadership impact includes:• Leading and mentoring 150+ engineers across multiple global teams• Helping scale the data engineering practice from early stage to 1250+ engineers• Defining enterprise data platform vision, strategy, and roadmap• Delivering cloud transformations that reduced infrastructure costs by 30–40%• Partnering with senior leadership to shape technology direction and executionI am passionate about building strong engineering organizations, developing future leaders, and delivering platforms that create measurable business impact.
Experience
Data Solution Architect Data Platform Leadership
Oct 2022 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
Lead distributed cloud data engineering teams delivering enterprise-scale platforms• Responsible for mentoring, coaching, and developing engineering talent across global teams• Partner with executive stakeholders to define enterprise data and cloud platform strategy• Helped grow the data engineering practice from 4 engineers to 1250+ globally• Directed cloud modernization and cost optimization initiatives, reducing infrastructure expenses by 30–40%• Established engineering governance, best practices, and delivery excellence frameworks• Oversaw team hiring, performance feedback, and skills development programs
Education
East Texas A&M University
Masters of Science, Computer Science
2010 — 2011
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology
2006 — 2010
Skills
- Java
- Hibernate
- Struts
- Jdbc
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Javascript
- Soa
- Tomcat
- Unix
- Core Java
- J2ee Application Development
- Agile Methodologies
- Spring Framework
- Xml
- Spring
- Junit
- Javabeans
- Css Javascript
- Db2
- Eclipse
- Hadoop
- Hbase
- Hive
- Tableau
- Mongodb
- Apache Storm
- Flume
- Restful Webservices
- Ajax
- Mvc Architecture
- Github
- Mockito
- Crucible
- Atlassian Jira
- Chef
- Log4j
- Test Driven Development
- Jenkins
- Clover
- Findbugs
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