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I'm a software and data engineer. I spend most of my time building data pipelines, wrangling cloud infrastructure, and writing Python. My current stack is mostly GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, FastAPI, and Docker.
I like learning things properly. Data engineering, machine learning, cloud certifications, reading, startup events. I keep a running list of things I want to get better at.
If you're working on something interesting, I'd genuinely like to hear about it.
Experience
Data Engineer II · Resultant
Building a Data Vault 2.0 lakehouse on GCP (BigQuery, CloudSQL, Airflow) for the Colorado State Healthcare System.
Data Science Intern · Fellowship.ai
Built a BERT model for plant-based nutrition Q&A from 2,500+ videos and podcasts. Coordinated a team of 8.
Data Engineer · Tata Consultancy Services
ETL pipelines on Cloud Data Fusion with BigQuery as an enterprise data warehouse for Vodafone Hungary.
Data Analytics Intern · KPMG
Data cleansing, exploration, and visualization across three analytics modules.
From the Golden Gate Bridge
Education
MS, Data Sciences and Applications
University at Buffalo, SUNY · Buffalo, NY
- Finalist, Buffalo Startup Weekend 2022
- 1st place, Morgan Stanley Code-to-Give Hackathon
BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering
Anna University · Chennai, India
- All India Rank 58, National Creativity Aptitude Test
- Won Design Your Destiny 2019 hardware hackathon (5,000+ teams)
- Best Paper Award at ICRACE 2020
Diploma in Yoga for Human Excellence
SRM University · Chennai, India
- 3rd rank, first class distinction
- Fun fact: I can legally teach yoga
Pet Projects
NLP sentiment analysis on a social engagement platform for Atlanta Mission. Won 1st place at the hackathon.
Python · Django · NLP · Heroku
Desktop app that predicts diseases from speech input. Google Speech-to-Text + ML classifiers. Patent No: 202041009208.
Python · Firebase · Raspberry Pi · tkinter
WDD: Washer Dryer Detector
IoT device + API to detect washer/dryer status via sensors. FastAPI backend on Cloud Run.
Python · FastAPI · Raspberry Pi · Docker · Cloud Run
911: What and How Well Do They Serve
EDA and regression on NY state 911 data. Classified incidents with 83% accuracy.
Python · SQLite · Scikit-learn · Tableau
Content Moderation with AWS Rekognition
Image upload pipeline that auto-flags unsafe content using S3 + Lambda + Rekognition.
HTML/CSS · AWS S3 · Lambda · Rekognition
More on github.com/iSriBalaji
Moments
- 2024Planted a tree at the Tools Library, Buffalo. The apple tree outside 2626 Main Street.
- 20221st place, Morgan Stanley Code-to-Give Hackathon. $500 prize, social platform for Atlanta Mission.
- 2022Finalist, Buffalo Startup Weekend 2022.
- 2021Patent No: 202041009208. Clinicon, a voice-driven medical assistant for rural healthcare.
- 2020Best Paper Award at ICRACE 2020, for a Women's Social Security prototype.
- 2020Finalist, Smart India Hackathon 2020. Top 5 nationally.
- 20191st place, Design Your Destiny 2019. Nationwide hardware hackathon, 5,000+ teams.
- 2019All India Rank 58, National Creative Aptitude Test (NCAT).
- 2017–20Won 5 project fests and 7 paper presentations across India.
Credentials
- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer · Google Cloud
- Google Cloud Professional Database Engineer · Google Cloud
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · Amazon Web Services
- Apache Airflow Fundamentals · Astronomer
- Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms with Python · IIT Madras · NPTEL · Elite + Silver
- Big Data with Apache Spark and Python · Udemy
- Machine Learning · Andrew NG · Coursera
- Docker for Beginners: Hands On DevOps · Udemy
I track my learning, habits, investments, and daily life at life.sribalaji.io. It's a personal workspace I built for myself.
I learned to skate in two days (still no tricks). I can solve a Rubik's cube, played 4,900+ chess matches on chess.com, and have a 750+ day Duolingo streak in Spanish. Cricket is my sport, though I've recently started playing soccer too. Big F1 fan. I visited the F1 Exhibition in Toronto.
Events I attended
Buffalo Open Coffee Club
Google Cloud Next 2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 25
Buffalo Startup Weekend
43 North Finals
LeetCode
GitHub — last 12 months