Summary
Durga Gadiraju is a Principal Architect and Data Engineering & AI consultant with 21+ years of experience modernizing enterprise data platforms and building GenAI products for Fortune 500 clients across healthcare, BFSI, retail, and government. He has a proven track record establishing Data & AI Centers of Excellence—defining governance, competency frameworks, and training programs that scale teams of 50–100 engineers. Durga architects cloud-native lakehouse and real-time analytics solutions on OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Cloudera and Snowflake, handling petabyte-scale batch and streaming workloads. He designs production GenAI systems including RAG-based assistants, intelligent document processing, and AI agent workflows using OpenAI, LLaMA, LangChain, and vector DBs. As co-founder of ITVersity he’s upskilled hundreds of engineers through hands-on curricula, blending consulting with scalable education—a combination that accelerates client adoption of responsible AI. Early hands-on work restructuring Hadoop MapReduce code reflects deep roots in performance tuning and pragmatic platform migration.
11 years of coding experience