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Akshay Girulkar is a Senior Data Engineer at To The New, with 8 years of hands-on experience in designing and optimizing large-scale data solutions. He specializes in building high-performance data pipelines, real-time streaming architectures, and cloud-based analytics platforms. Throughout his career, he has worked extensively across industries such as custodian banking, health insurance, digital advertising, and retail, tackling complex data challenges and driving scalable, cost-efficient solutions. His core expertise lies in AWS, PySpark, and Snowflake, where he focuses on data lakehouse architectures, distributed computing, and performance tuning for enterprise workloads. Akshay is a Snowflake Advanced Architect Certified Professional, demonstrating his deep knowledge of cloud data warehousing, query optimization, and modern ELT frameworks. Passionate about Big Data, AI-powered analytics, and automation, he continuously explores innovations in data engineering, cloud computing, and next-gen data platforms.
Fun fact! Around 80%-90% of the world's data is unstructured. I was shocked when I read this fact. The unstructured data contains images, emails, PDF files social media posts, and other formats. Even though it is widely present 70% of data is not being used to drive insights and get analytics. As a Data Engineer, you must have...
