VARSHITH MANCHIKANTI

Software Engineer IV | Hyderabad, India

• Driving real-time big data stream processing in the digital banking domain, handling volumes of 70-100 million transactions per day.
• Engineered and optimized large-scale data pipelines on GCP utilizing PySpark, Databricks, Dataflow, and Dataproc for processing and storing data in BigQuery and Bigtable.
• Applied advanced data engineering techniques to support critical financial analysis and compliance reporting.

Lead Data Engineer | Hyderabad, India

• Orchestrated deployment of a Copilot Studio–powered chatbot for Compliance, earning runner-up in a global PoC showcase.
• Engineered a Streamlit application to classify and enrich third-party distribution data via Databricks Llama endpoints and Crew.ai, accelerating data quality efforts.
• Migrated Azure Databricks workloads (ADLS Gen2) to AWS with UC workflow upgrades during a major cloud consolidation—streamlined operations across teams.
• Implemented a production-grade, fine-tuned SparkNLP NER solution, standardizing entity extraction at minimal cost.
• Spearheaded Xceptor-based automation of 105+ internal processes, realizing 260 man-days in annual savings and significantly reducing error rates.

Senior Data Engineer | Hyderabad, India

• Architected and optimized end-to-end ML pipelines on GCP (Kubeflow, TFX, Composer), enabling seamless model training & serving.
• Developed ETL jobs to ingest and transform terabyte-scale data into BigQuery, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage—accelerating analytics readiness.
• Designed and deployed Angular/React UIs and Python Flask back-ends on App Engine for real-time dashboards and data APIs.
• Migrated legacy Hadoop workloads to GCP Dataproc, streamlining Spark job orchestration and reducing infrastructure costs.
• Key Client Achievements:
• **Publishers Clearing House:** Automated ML model lifecycle (Kubeflow, KFServing) with CI/CD, yielding $142K annual savings.
• **CBRE Inc.:** Engineered secure GCP VPCs, VPNs, Dataflow pipelines, and BigQuery schemas for enterprise data migration.
• **iHuddl Investments:** Built real-time dashboards (Angular, D3.js), WebSocket data pipelines, and scalable App Engine services.

Senior Software Engineer | Hyderabad, India

• Designed PySpark architectures and authored fuzzy-logic engines for invoice processing (EY GST solution).
• Scraped and structured multi-source news data using BeautifulSoup and Dryscrape for a regional media portal.
• Developed RPA bots (Automagica, Python) and integrated testing pipelines via Jenkins for Verizon Wireless process automation.

Software Engineer | Hyderabad, India

• Processed and provisioned OSS/BSS orders for TalkTalk & BT integration, enhancing order-tracking portals.
• Led data exploration, feature engineering (SciPy, Pandas), and visualization (Matplotlib) for retail analytics on the X-Retail platform.