SENIOR DATA ARCHITECT · MICROSOFTCAREER PORTFOLIO / 2026

Hello, I’m Rajendra.

Complex systems.
Dependable data.

I architect data platforms that teams can trust—from petabyte-scale lakehouses and real-time ingestion to governed AI workflows.

16+ years connecting architecture, hands-on engineering, and technical leadership across Microsoft, Amazon, and financial services.

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Rajendra Kalepu
Rajendra KalepuARCHITECT. ENGINEER. TEAM LEADER.
TURNING SCALE INTO
RELIABLE SYSTEMS
16+
Years across data engineering,
architecture & technical leadership.From foundational systems to enterprise platforms.
CURRENT PLATFORM / MICROSOFT

Scale, with purpose.

Engineering a shared foundation
for trusted enterprise data.

01 / INGEST & ORCHESTRATE
~500

Orchestrated Data Pipelines

Metadata-driven ingestion across Azure Data Factory and Synapse.

DIVERSE SOURCES. SHARED STANDARDS.
02 / STORE & GOVERN
7 PB

Enterprise Lakehouse

Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers with data contracts and governance.

STRUCTURE THAT EARNS TRUST.
03 / PROCESS & SERVE
100+

Spark Processing Workloads

Distributed processing in PySpark and Scala for downstream analytics.

COMPUTE THAT CONNECTS TO VALUE.

Scale of the Microsoft data platform I architect and maintain.

EXPERIENCE ACROSS
Microsoft
amazon
D. E. Shaw
Wells Fargo
CSC / DXC

02 / SELECTED WORK

Architecture with
something to show.

A few challenges I’ve worked through.
Select a story for the context and approach.

03 / THE JOURNEY

Experience,
built over time.

04 / TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Tools are useful.
Judgment connects them.

Select an area to explore the technology
and where I’ve applied it.

05 / BEYOND THE STACK

Hands-on by practice.
Collaborative by design.

I work where business requirements meet engineering decisions. My role is to turn that complexity into an architecture people can understand, operate, and evolve.

My experience spans security and compliance, last-mile logistics, investment management, banking, healthcare, and retail. I’ve built teams, led architects, and stayed close to the implementation.

Outside technology, I enjoy urban sketching—another way of observing systems, understanding structure, and paying attention to detail.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology

Electronics & Communication Engineering
Institute of Aeronautical Engineering

Professional certifications +
  • AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate
  • AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty
  • Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate
  • Oracle Certified Expert
  • Tableau Desktop Specialist
  • IBM DB2 Associate
Recognition +
  • Innovation Maven — Amazon
  • Employee of the Quarter — Wells Fargo
  • Analyst of the Year — Kaiser Permanente

06 / WHAT’S NEXT

Have a complex
data challenge?
Let’s talk.

Open to conversations about data architecture,
platform engineering, and technical leadership.

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