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title: "Varun Kota - GCP Data Engineer | BigQuery | Cloud Composer (Airflow) | Dataflow | Dataproc | PySpark | Python | SQL | 5+ Years in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Varun Kota, GCP Data Engineer | BigQuery | Cloud Composer (Airflow) | Dataflow | Dataproc | PySpark | Python | SQL | 5+ Years based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes gemini and openai."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/varun-kota/share-image"
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# Varun Kota on Tal

## Headline

GCP Data Engineer \| BigQuery \| Cloud Composer \(Airflow\) \| Dataflow \| Dataproc \| PySpark \| Python \| SQL \| 5\+ Years

## About

I’m a GCP Data Engineer with 5\+ years of experience building and optimizing scalable, cloud\-native data platforms for retail and automotive domains\. I specialize in designing high\-performance ELT/ETL pipelines using BigQuery, Cloud Composer \(Airflow\), Dataflow, Dataproc \(PySpark\), and Cloud Storage, enabling reliable analytics across staging, historical, and curated data layers\. In my recent work, I’ve: • Improved BigQuery performance by using partitioning, clustering, and SQL optimization • Developed robust data quality and audit frameworks, ensuring pipeline reliability I work extensively with SQL, Python, and PySpark for data transformation and automation, and leverage Airflow for orchestration and CI/CD tools like Git, Cloud Build for reliable deployments\. I enjoy solving complex data problems, optimizing pipelines for performance and cost, and collaborating with cross\-functional teams to deliver scalable, production\-grade data solutions\.

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

gemini

openai

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Mechanical Engineering, Hindustan University

Intermediate, MPC, Nri junior college

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