Available for opportunities

Mahesh
Babu

Building data infrastructure that powers decisions. 5+ years crafting cloud pipelines, real-time analytics, and BI systems that scale.

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4+
Years
10+
Projects
3
Clouds
99.9%
Accuracy
Mahesh Babu
Current
Data Engineer
London, UK
Open to work
Education
MSc Data Science
First Class · 2024

Selected Projects

Work that ships.

12M+ events/day throughput

Realtime Intelligence Platform

Cloud-native streaming ecosystem processing millions of events daily using Kafka, Databricks, and Azure. Powers live dashboards with sub-second latency.

KafkaAzureDatabricksPySparkPower BI
1.8TB optimized daily

Enterprise ETL Automation

Scalable ETL pipelines with intelligent orchestration and monitoring for enterprise analytics. Reduced manual data work by 60%.

ADFSQLPythonPower BIAzure
99.9% uptime SLA

Cloud Analytics Architecture

Highly available BI infrastructure powering executive reporting and strategic decision systems across Finance and Retail domains.

AzureSnowflakeAirflowDockerRedshift
80% prediction accuracy

Stock Price Prediction · LSTM

Forecasted future stock prices using LSTM and RNN deep learning architectures. Serves as a reliable market indicator with 80% accuracy.

PythonLSTMRNNKerasTensorFlow
Live production deploy

Mask Detection · Deep Learning

CNN model with MobileNetV2 transfer learning, deployed on live college camera infrastructure during COVID. Real-world production ML.

PythonTensorFlowMobileNetV2CNNOpenCV
89% accuracy

Image Classification · VGG16

CIFAR-10 classification using VGG16 with custom fine-tuning strategies. Achieved 89% accuracy through systematic transfer learning optimisation.

PythonVGG16CIFAR-10KerasNumPy
View all projects on GitHub →

Experience

Where I've worked.

Senior Database Administrator

CURRENT
Citibank·Belfast, UK
Full-time · CurrentMar 2025 – Present
  • Designed and built end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines processing large-scale financial and trading datasets
  • Orchestrated workflows using Apache Airflow — DAGs for scheduling, dependency management, and monitoring
  • Built data ingestion pipelines into S3 and ADLS Gen2, integrating Confluent Kafka topics into Databricks Delta Lake
  • Implemented Medallion Architecture (Bronze → Silver → Gold) in Databricks with incremental MERGE loads and full audit trailLegacy migration
  • Used AWS Glue, PySpark and Databricks for distributed data processing, transformation and large-scale pipeline migration
  • Applied IAM roles and policies to securely manage access to sensitive financial datasets across S3 and Databricks
  • Monitored pipelines using CloudWatch and Airflow alerts, ensuring reliability and quick issue resolution
  • Collaborated with compliance and risk teams on market surveillance and regulatory reporting — Gold layer datasets to Power BI
AzureKafkaDatabricksPySparkPower BIDockerAirflowSnowflakePythonSQLGitADFSparkDelta LakeTableauAWSGCPJIRAdbtTensorFlowAzureKafkaDatabricksPySparkPower BIDockerAirflowSnowflakePythonSQLGitADFSparkDelta LakeTableauAWSGCPJIRAdbtTensorFlow

Tech Stack

The full toolkit.

Cloud & Infrastructure
AzureAWSGCPAzure DatabricksAzure SynapseADLS Gen2DockerKubernetes
Data Engineering
Apache KafkaPySparkApache AirflowADFDelta LakeSnowflakeRedshiftdbt
Languages & Databases
PythonSQLJavaPostgreSQLSQL ServerMySQLMongoDB
BI & Visualisation
Power BITableauDAXPower QueryExcelLooker
ML & Analytics
TensorFlowKerasScikit-learnPandasNumPyLSTMCNNMobileNetV2
Tools & Practices
GitGitHubJIRAServiceNowREST APIsAgileData Governance

About

The person behind the data.

I'm Mahesh — a Data Engineer based in London, UK. I specialise in building the infrastructure that makes data useful: pipelines, warehouses, and real-time analytics that turn raw data into decisions.

I hold a First Class MSc in Data Science from Hertfordshire University and have shipped solutions at Accenture, Bank of America, and cloud startups. Outside work: guitar, travel, and teaching.

Location
Hemel Hempstead, UK
Education
MSc Data Science
Domains
Finance · Retail · Sales
Languages
English · Telugu · Hindi
BI Tools
Power BI · Tableau
Interests
Guitar · Travel · Teaching

Core Skills

SQL95%
Python85%
Data Visualisation90%
Cloud Architecture88%
ETL & Pipelines92%
Machine Learning80%

Education

MSc Data Science
University of Hertfordshire
2023–2024First Class Distinction
BSc Computer Science
GITAM University, Visakhapatnam
2017–2021First Class Distinction

Get in touch

Let's build
something great.

Open to senior data engineering roles, consulting, and technical collaborations. Based in UK, working globally.

LinkedIn ↗GitHub ↗
Location
Hemel Hempstead, UK
Instagram
@_m4h3sh