Raviteja Tholupunoori
Software Engineer III · Sr. Data Engineer · Deloitte
9+ years of experience in data and AI platform engineering — building production-grade data pipelines, LLM-based platforms, and multi-cloud infrastructure across GCP, Azure, and AWS. Apache Airflow Champion (Astronomer, Cohort 3).
Experience
Software Engineer III
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
ConvergeCONSUMER — Customer & Marketing / Innovation & Technology
Customer Growth Opportunity Platform
- Designed HLD and led containerisation of the Customer Growth app — converting a manual workflow into a fully automated deployment via GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- Piloted KEDA HTTP-trigger autoscaling, introducing an event-driven scaling pattern that reduced operational complexity vs. the previous DB-trigger approach.
- Delivered semantic search for opportunity matching by implementing a Gen Model-based search layer in the Customer Growth API.
- ★ Applause Award — delivering MVP for a client within the timeline
Customer Segmentation
- Led MRD integration into the Customer Segmentation platform, eliminating manual Jupyter-based preprocessing and enabling fully automated end-to-end ML workflows.
- Designed a pub/sub-based architecture for multi-application reuse and built a PySpark Data Prep Pipeline with advanced data quality checks.
- Increased automated test coverage to ~90% across segmentation and clustering modules.
Brand Identity
- Built and delivered an end-to-end Brand Identity matching MVP within a single sprint — matching logic, CASS integration, BigQuery data layer, testing, containerisation, and CI/CD.
Product Engineer 2
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
ConvergeCONSUMER — Customer & Marketing / Innovation & Technology
Identity Resolution Platform
- Modernised data processing from legacy .NET to Apache Spark — 70% performance gain; core IDR pipeline processes 800 million records with 50% reduction in processing time.
- Migrated infrastructure to support AWS and Azure within 3 months, enabling automated single-click deployment across three cloud providers.
- Built an Airflow-orchestrated batch ingestion pipeline (Cleanse, Convert, CASS, Pinning, Stitch) — 25% cost reduction, 20% scalability increase.
- Maintained 20+ Apache Airflow DAGs on GCP Cloud Composer — custom Docker image builds, Kubernetes pod configs, and pipeline stability.
- ★ Applause Award · ★ Outstanding Performance Award
Full Stack Developer
Strategic Technology Resources International Pvt. Ltd.
- Built modular single-page UIs with AngularJS and Node.js; acted as client-facing interface for requirements and backend API integration.
- Developed a low-code ATS on Zoho Creator and migrated configurable .NET/Java automation apps to Azure for SPS Commerce.
Business Technology Analyst
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
Built Talend automation pipelines for LGE CDP — 400GB+ file processing reduced from 18 days to 2–3 days. Developed real-time .NET microservices for identity resolution with 23× and 1800× performance improvements. ★ Applause & Spot Awards.
Software Engineer
Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd.
Developed and maintained the RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) Sales Platform on C# / .NET MVC; built configurable multi-environment deployment pipelines across dev, staging, and production.
Skills
AI
Languages
Data Engineering
Cloud Platforms
Databases
Tools & DevOps
Certifications
Google Cloud Developer & Architect
Professional Developer, Architect, ACE & Cloud Digital Leader
Apache Airflow Champion & Fundamentals
Astronomer Certified — Airflow Fundamentals & Astronomer Champion
MongoDB SI Architect & Associate
MongoDB Solution Implementation certifications
Microsoft C# Developer
Microsoft Certified Professional (Programming in C#)
AWS Technical Professional
Amazon Web Services — AWS Technical Professional
GenAI Engineer
Deloitte Certified — GenAI Guild Program
Speaking & Media
Astronomer Podcast — Apache Airflow in Production
Featured on the Astronomer podcast discussing real-world Apache Airflow architectures, orchestration patterns, and lessons learned from running Airflow at scale on Kubernetes across GCP and Azure.
Astronomer · 2024Achievements

Apache Airflow Champion
Selected as Astronomer Champion — a global initiative for passionate Apache Airflow advocates.

Google Skill Badges
Multiple Skill Badges, Arcade Points and Google SWAG via Cloud Skills Boost.

Client & Internal Awards
Outstanding, Applause & Spot awards for delivery, migration & performance tuning.

TechGig Code Gladiators 2023
Top 10 finalist — one of the world's biggest coding competitions with 300K+ developers.
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Education
CVR College of Engineering (JNTUH)
B.Tech — Electronics & Communication Engineering
2012 – 2016 · 81%