Prasad Srinivasa

In the digital age, Data is the new oil and data engineers are the experts in the company who understand the various sources and forms the data comes from, how it is to be stored, how can it be made easily accessible at a time and in the format required, how it should be protected – thus enabling the company to make use of the data for business growth. Though anyone with the right set of technical competencies and aptitude can be groomed as a Data Engineer, people with a background in Science and Engineering are the ones who are most preferred and suited for the job. The ideal candidate needs to be comfortable with the notion of working data and making sure that (s)he has the interest to handle different kinds of systems and technologies. Large companies like Amazon, Facebook or Google have massive amounts of data that needs to be managed – so that Amazon can make the right recommendations and Google can give the right search results in very quick time. This requires knowledge of a number of tools and technologies, including Cloud and Big Data systems, and also understanding of all the processes that data goes through. This is only possible due to the contribution of a large army of data engineers working smartly to manage all the data. Do you think you have it in you to be a part of the data economy that nurtures the data pipelines behind the billion-dollar industry - come and join the session where experts from Academics & Industry share their insight and roadmap for “Data Engineering - the fastest growing Tech Job” on 22nd April at Skillup 2021.