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Akshay Thakare

Akshay Thakare

Data Engineer · GenAI & Agentic AI Builder

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Fig. 1 · Mumbai, India

Profile

Senior Data Engineer with experience of designing and delivering scalable data platforms, real-time streaming pipelines and production-grade AI systems. I work across PySpark, Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, Apache Kafka and AWS, and I build with Generative AI — fine-tuning open LLMs with LoRA/QLoRA and shipping LangChain + FAISS RAG pipelines. I created Datainteg.io, an open-source data engineering lab, and I teach everything I build on my YouTube channel.

Two disciplines

Data engineering

PySparkApache SparkDatabricksDelta LakeApache KafkaAWS GlueAWS EMRAmazon S3AWS LambdaSnowflakeApache AirflowPythonSQLPostgreSQLMongoDBFastAPIDocker

AI engineering

LangChainLlamaIndexRAGFAISSLoRA / QLoRAMLflow

How I work

  • Correctness first: a pipeline that is fast but occasionally wrong is a liability, not an asset.
  • Make the boundaries explicit — grains, contracts, commit points and ownership.
  • Separate what is verified from what is supplied and what is proposed. Evidence over claims.
  • Teach what you build. If you cannot explain a trade-off simply, you do not understand it yet.