Venu Kasam
Senior Manager Data Engineering
- Role
- Senior Manager Data Engineering at Western Union
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Venu Kasam
Senior Data Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience designing, building, and…
Experience
Senior Manager Data Engineering
Apr 2023 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Reduced Couchbase Capella and Cassandra credit consumption by 50% through strategic workload optimization, including resizing and scaling clusters based on real-time usage patterns and auto-scaling policies.Optimized read and write performance in Cassandra by tuning replication factors, consistency levels, and partitioning strategies, reducing unnecessary compute usage and improving cost efficiency.Implemented data compaction and compression strategies in Cassandra, significantly decreasing storage costs while maintaining optimal query performance.Led the adoption of Couchbase Capella\'s bucket and index tuning practices, reducing over-provisioning and optimizing performance for high-concurrency workloads, which decreased credit usage by 30%.Utilized cost-saving strategies in Couchbase Capella such as moving non-critical workloads to lower-tier clusters, applying adaptive workload balancing, and taking advantage of Capella’s automatic indexing and data lifecycle management.Designed capacity planning models to predict resource needs accurately in both Cassandra and Capella environments, minimizing excess credit usage by scaling resources to meet exact business demands.Enabled data retention policies to archive or delete unused data in both Capella and Cassandra, reducing storage and read-write operation costs by 20%.Consolidated multiple clusters into fewer, more efficient setups in Capella/Cassandra by analyzing workloads and aligning them with optimal configurations, reducing resource overhead and costs.Provided training and best practices to data engineers on query optimization, replication tuning, and efficient resource usage in both Capella and Cassandra environments, achieving an overall 60% improvement in cost management.
Education
National Institute of Technology Warangal
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering
1994 — 1996
Skills
- Erp
- Database Administration
- Oracle Discoverer
- Oracle
- Business Intelligence
- Oracle Database Administration
- Pl/Sql
- Sql
- Oracle Applications
- Oracle E-Business Suite
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