About
Hi, this is Gururaj. A software and a data engineer, writer on medium, a sports enthusiast!!
I have a strong background in Full Stack Software Engineering solutions having worked on Java/J2EE technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, REST, Webservices, GraphQL etc to develop enterprise level, service oriented architecture based application.
Worked on building enterprise level Data Engineering tools and frameworks, Data Governance solutions, Data Warehouse and Marts, On Premise to Cloud migrations, Data Security product such as Tokenization, Real time data streaming, Data Curation platforms.
Extensive experience on AWS cloud services such as Redshift, Glue, VPC, DynamoDB, EC2, S3, lambda etc in building ETL solution for the Cloud-based Data Warehouse and Data Marts.
Quick Facts About Me:
👨🎓 Born and brought up in Karnataka, India. Completed by Bachelors from NIE, Mysore in 2008.
🖥️ Worked in Bangalore since 2008 till 2013 for Misys (4 years) and Nuance (1 year) as Software Engineer.
🎓 Living in the UK since Sept 2013, came here for Masters at the University of Bristol.
🖥️ Worked for TDC a Qfree company between 2013-2015, then joined Barclays in Oct-2015 where I worked till Dec-2022.
🖥️ Currently working as a Senior Developer at Riskcare.
✍️ I have started writing articles on Medium since Sept 2022.
Other Stuffs:
A die hard fan of Lionel Messi, watched him play a International Friendly, Champions League match against City in Manchester, and a La Liga match against Betis at Camp Nou, Barcelona.
I am more into playing sports such as Badminton, Cricket, Squash. Used to be a decent Chess player, it's been while I played now.
Played a lot of Fifa when I was a studying, started playing again now on PS4 after more than a decade.