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Building systems that move data forward.

Harsha Reddy
Bangalore, India
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As an engineering leader, I develop and optimize real-time data systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Currently at Bureau, I drive data platform strategy and build AI-ready infrastructures.

What I do

My work is centered on enabling organizations to process and leverage vast amounts of structured and unstructured data for intelligent decision-making. I've architected petabyte-scale data processing platforms, built real-time analytics systems supporting 10B+ monthly interactions, and enabled Agentic AI workflows that drive autonomous decision-making in production.

I care deeply about data quality, observability, and making data accessible to the teams that need it. A well-designed pipeline is one that the on-call engineer never has to think about.

Why I write

This blog is where I share what I'm learning and building, the patterns that work, the mistakes I've made, and the tools I reach for when the stakes are high. No fluff, just real experience from production systems.

Career

Principal Engineer

Bureau

Mar 2026 to Present

2026

Big Data Lead

Zzazz

May 2024 – Mar 2026

2024

Tech Lead, Big Data

Gameskraft

Feb 2023 – May 2024

2023

Senior Software Engineer

OYO Rooms

Sep 2021 – Feb 2023

2021

Senior Data Engineer

TripAdvisor

Mar 2021 – Aug 2021

2021

Data Engineer

Dailyhunt

Jan 2021 – Mar 2021

2021

Software Engineer II

OYO Rooms

Jul 2018 – Dec 2020

2018

B.Tech

IIT Bhubaneswar

2014 – 2018

2014

Skills & tools

Data Engineering

Apache Spark Apache Kafka Apache Airflow Apache Druid Apache Flink dbt Delta Lake Debezium / CDC Trino / Presto

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Terraform Docker Prometheus Grafana CI/CD

Languages

Python Java SQL TypeScript Scala Bash

AI & ML

Agentic AI LangChain / LangGraph Vector DBs (Qdrant) RAG Pipelines Feature Stores Elasticsearch

Beyond work

🏸 Badminton 🥊 Boxing ♟️ Chess 🏄 Surfing 🪂 Paragliding ✈️ Travelling