data engineer · hyderabad, india

Jayanth Appalla

Data Engineer at trigyan.io · previously AWS (DynamoDB)

> builds data platforms & AI systems that run themselves 

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Role
Data Engineer @ trigyan.io
Company
Trigyan — healthcare data platform
Focus
data platforms + self-running AI systems
Track
~3 yrs · ex-AWS DynamoDB · Azure Databricks
Certs
Databricks DE · MS Fabric DE · AWS
Flagship
autonomous agent fleet — zero servers
Stack
Python · SQL · Spark · Kafka · Databricks
jayanth@appalla: ~/about// 01
cat about.md

Who I am

I'm a data engineer at trigyan.io, building the data platform behind a healthcare product. Before this I was at Amazon Web Services on the DynamoDB team — backup, restore and import at multi-terabyte scale — and built Azure Databricks lakehouse pipelines in consulting.

What I like working on: pipelines that move serious data — Spark, Kafka, Databricks, medallion architectures — and LLM systems with real engineering discipline: deterministic where possible, model calls only where judgment helps, everything tested and observable. To practice what I preach, I built a fleet of autonomous agents that runs my mornings, audits my code, and even maintains my GitHub profile page by itself.

MS CS · UIC Chicago ~3 yrs industry 6 certifications published researcher
jayanth@appalla: ~/learning// 02
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Skill progress — in public

My learning isn't a private plan — it's committed, dated and public. A self-updating board tracks daily progress across four tracks, with code and day-by-day notes pushed as I go, alongside daily DSA practice. What's mine here is the progress; a Telegram study bot just keeps the log.

LIVE · SELF-UPDATING

Learning-in-public board

Skills, momentum and current build across data engineering, AI, ML and Linux — plus computer vision — updated automatically as I study and ship.

LIVE · REBUILT ON EVERY PUSH

IIT Patna GenAI program progress

My progress through IIT Patna's Certificate Program in Generative AI & Agentic AI: a curriculum roadmap where each topic is ticked by the code that shows it, plus projects, libraries and coding activity.

HANDBOOK

The Linux Handbook

A hands-on guide to Linux, from your first command to building containers from scratch: 54 chapters, exercises and capstones.

HANDBOOK

The ML Handbook

Data science, machine learning and deep learning, from your first DataFrame to transformers and diffusion models: intuition, math and code.

HANDBOOK

The Computer Vision Handbook

Computer vision from pixels and filters to detectors, vision transformers, diffusion and 3D.

INTERVIEW PREP

Interview question banks

AI engineer and Python question banks for mid-level roles, with full answers, expected outputs, follow-ups and scoring guides.

jayanth@appalla: ~/experience// 03
git log --career --oneline

Where I've worked

Jul 2026 — now

Trigyan — Data Engineercurrent

  • Building the data platform behind a healthcare product.
Dec 2024 — Dec 2025

SPV Consulting — Data Engineer

  • Azure Databricks pipelines at gigabyte scale — partitioning, Z-ordering and caching to cut ETL runtimes.
  • Bronze / Silver / Gold medallion workflows feeding analytics and ML; Databricks-to-Power BI delivery.
Aug 2023 — Oct 2024

Amazon Web Services — Software Development Engineer, DynamoDB

  • Built and operated the service behind multi-TB backups, imports and restores for DynamoDB customers.
  • Raised the import S3-object limit 10,000 → 100,000, cutting large-import times ~20%.
  • On-call for a tier-1 service at very high traffic.
2019 — 2023

Earlier

  • I-ConnectResources — ServiceNow ITSM/ITOM & AWS discovery integration (certified ServiceNow Administrator, certified Appian developer).
  • Incture — SAP Analytics Cloud dashboards; Java/Spring microservices for geospatial analytics (Esri ArcGIS).
  • Hindustan Unilever (intern) — chatbots & NLP; a Russian-language email bot with Dialogflow.
jayanth@appalla: ~/projects// 04
ls ~/projects --featured

Things I've built

To be updated soon.

jayanth@appalla: ~/skills// 05
tree ~/skills -L 1

What I work with

data engineering

Apache SparkPySpark Apache KafkaAzure Databricks Azure Data FactorySnowflake Delta Lake

languages & frameworks

PythonSQL RJava C#Spring / Spring Boot DjangoFastAPI TypeScript

ai / ml & genai

RAGhybrid search vector databasesModel Context Protocol LLM app developmentTensorFlow Hugging Facescikit-learn NLTKNumPy / Pandas

analytics, tooling & platforms

Power BITableau SAP Analytics CloudGit MavenGradle GitHub ActionsCloudflare Workers LinuxAndroid
jayanth@appalla: ~/certs// 06
ls ~/certs --verified

Certified in

Microsoft Certified Fabric Data Engineer

2025

Databricks Certified Associate Data Engineer

2025

Microsoft Certified Administrator Associate

2025

PCEP — Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer

2025

Tableau Certified Desktop Specialist

2024

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

2023
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Where I studied

MS, Computer Science

University of Illinois at Chicago · 2021 – 2022

BE, Computer Science

National Institute of Engineering, Mysore · 2016 – 2020 · GPA 9.09/10

Publication

“Real-time Object Detection and Face Recognition System to Assist the Visually Impaired” — Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 1706 (IOP Publishing), 2020 · ICAPSM 2020.

jayanth@appalla: ~/contact// 08
mail -s "hello" jayanth

Let's connect

Have a role, a project, or just want to talk data platforms and agents? My inbox is open.