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Nagendra Darla
Principal Engineer · Data Platforms & Backend Systems
AWS Certified Solutions Architect building reliable, cost-efficient data platforms and cloud-native services—16+ years in production.
10+ TB / day
Data processed at 99.9% availability
~40% cost ↓
Infrastructure savings via Delta Lake migration
AWS certified
Solutions Architect — Professional & Associate
About
I design and run large-scale data platforms and backend systems—streaming and batch pipelines, microservices, and AWS infrastructure—with a bias toward performance, reliability, and cost.
- Operate distributed systems at 10+ TB/day with 99.9% availability
- Deep in Spark, Delta Lake, Kafka, Spring Boot, and AWS
- Track record of measurable gains: faster queries, lower latency, lower cloud spend
- Lead teams through architecture, delivery, and mentoring
Highlights
- Platform modernization — Hadoop/Hive → Delta Lake for 500+ datasets; ~40% infrastructure cost reduction
- Real-time data — Kafka + Spark streaming with ~70% lower ingestion latency
- Microservices — Monolith broken into 20+ Spring Boot services; deployments from weeks to hours
- Reliability & security — DR targets of 15-min RPO / <1-hr RTO; led remediation of 40+ critical vulnerabilities
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional (2023)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate (2023)
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