Phaneendra Kumar
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Open to senior data engineering roles

Data infrastructure that stays up.

I move millions of records a day across healthcare, insurance, and retail. Pipelines that run fast, stay clean, and do not page anyone at 3am.

5+Years
3Clouds
3M+Records / day
5Certifications
Records / day3M+
Uptime SLA99.7%
Alert latency<200ms
Saved / year$230K+
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01  Impact in numbers

Outcomes, not just
job descriptions.

Throughput
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records processed every day, end to end
Reliability
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uptime across production pipelines
Cost
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cloud and ops spend saved per year
Latency
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from event to fraud alert at peak load
02  The pipeline I build most

From raw events to a
number someone trusts.

Every metric on this page rides through a shape like this one. Tap any stage to see what runs there and why it matters.

Streaming Batch Transform Serve
live packet simulation
Phaneendra Kumar
PK
Dayton, Ohioopen to relocation
03  About

I make data move,
then make it trustworthy.

I have spent five years building the plumbing behind dashboards people actually depend on. Claims systems at a health plan, fraud and risk data at an insurer, and real time retail analytics at scale. The fun part is not the tool list. It is taking something messy and making it land on time, every time.

My default is boring in the best way. Clear contracts, tests that catch problems before a stakeholder does, and pipelines that recover on their own instead of waking someone. I care about the person three desks over who needs the number to be right.

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Ship for the reader

A pipeline exists so a human can trust a number. That is the spec.

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Make failure loud, early

Tests and contracts catch the bad row before it reaches a report.

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Automate the 3am page

If a job can heal itself, it should. Nobody should babysit a DAG.

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Cost is a feature

Cheaper compute and tighter storage are real wins, not afterthoughts.

04  What I work with

A stack chosen for
uptime and clarity.

05  Tech radar

Where each tool sits
in my toolkit.

Adopt is what I reach for by default. Trial is in real projects. Assess is on my bench. Hover a blip to read why.

Adoptproven, default choice
Trialusing in production now
Assessworth a serious look
06  Experience

Five years, three
industries, zero drama.

07  Selected work

Pipelines I am proud of.

08  Live ops, the way I run it

The view I keep open
on a second screen.

A mock of the kind of control panel I wire up for every platform. Throughput, latency, and job health at a glance, refreshing in real time.

platform.health / production

streaming live
Throughput · records per second
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0ms
p99 latency
Uptime · 30 day
99.7%
Records today
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09  Or just ask the shell

Prefer a terminal?
Be my guest.

phaneendra@portfolio: ~
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Try help, whoami, skills, experience, projects, certs, contact, or clear.

10  Certifications

Credentials, kept current.

Let us build something reliable

Have a pipeline
that needs to last?

I am looking for senior data engineering roles where reliability and scale actually matter. If that sounds like your team, let us talk.