Rahul Kulkarni is an accomplished IT professional with extensive experience as a Data Engineer and SQL developer, currently working at T. Rowe Price as a Data Engineer/Spark Developer since March 2022. Expertise includes building, configuring, and maintaining Hadoop clusters, managing AWS infrastructure services, and developing analytics dashboards using Kafka and Spark Streaming. Previous roles at CVS Health and Accenture involved significant contributions to real-time analytics, performance tuning, and ETL processes. Rahul started the career at InerOPs Data Solutions, focusing on data management scalability, and later contributed to the Data Warehouse team at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, participating in various stages of Data Warehouse development. Rahul holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from Osmania University.