Task Graph โ€” shrividya_career_pipeline
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ai_rag_projects
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serve_community
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ingest_sdet_roots  โ— success
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INGEST โ€” SDET & QA Engineering Roots
8 years building quality-first foundations across TCS, KPMG, and CBA
[2014-06-01] INFO TCS joined โ€” Bengaluru, IN โ†’ Sydney, AU [2016-06-01] INFO Promoted: ASE Trainee โ†’ IT Analyst [2020-04-01] INFO KPMG transition โ€” Automation Specialist [2021-05-01] INFO CBA onboarded โ€” Core Payments Data [2022-02-01] INFO Task complete. Duration: 8 yrs. Exit code: 0
8+
Yrs SDET
4
Companies
50%
Effort โ†“ TCS
95%
Coverage CBA
Task Instances
Run IDCompanyRole & StackDurState
manual__2014-02-01Internship at MCF, Hassan ๐Ÿ“œ CertificateISRO โ€” Master Control Facility ยท Automatic Weather Storage Analysis & Display System4 moโ— success
manual__2014-06-01TCS ๐Ÿ… ร—5SE / IT Analyst ยท Sydney & Bangalore ยท Banking & Finance ยท CI/CD ยท SQL ยท Selenium ยท Java ยท Python6 yrsโ— success
manual__2020-05-01KPMG IndiaAutomation Specialist ยท SAP S/4 HANA ยท BrowserStack ยท Appium ยท 4+ teams1 yrโ— success
manual__2021-05-01CBA ๐Ÿ… Best PartnerSr Test Automation โ€” Core Payments ยท 95% coverage ยท microservices9 moโ— success
transform_astronomer  โ— success  โ— running (OSS)
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TRANSFORM โ€” Astronomer & Apache Airflow
Where raw SDET experience was transformed into full-stack AI Data Engineering
[2022-03-01] INFO Joined Astronomer โ€” Bengaluru, India (Remote) [2022-09-01] INFO ETL/ELT pipelines live โ€” GCP, Azure, AWS ยท delivery โ†“ 20% [2023-06-01] INFO RAG pipeline deployed โ€” LangChain + ChromaDB ยท productivity โ†‘ 40% [2024-11-01] INFO ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Relocated: Bengaluru, IN โ†’ Parsippany, NJ, USA [2026-01-01] INFO ๐Ÿ† Airflow Champion awarded by Astronomer [2026-03-01] INFO Apache OSS โ€” 7 PRs merged โ€” task still running...
3+
Yrs
30%
Throughput โ†‘
Infra cost โ†“
by using cleanup scripts for cloud resources
40%
Dev prod โ†‘
7
OSS PRs
Task Instances
Run IDTaskDetailsState
scheduled__2022-03-01Astronomer Sr SWE
Mar 2022 โ€“ Nov 2025 ยท Bengaluru โ†’ NJ (Nov 2024)
Astro Observe ยท Airflow DAGs ยท Python ยท Cloud SDKs ยท Kubernetes ยท RAG ยท LangChainโ— success
scheduled__2026-03-01Apache OSS Contributor
Mar 2026 โ€“ present
Airflow 3 ยท Dynamic task mapping ยท Scheduler improvements ยท 7 merged PRsโ— running
validate_certs_oss  โ— success
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VALIDATE โ€” Certifications & Recognition
14 certifications, Airflow Champion, 7 merged OSS PRs โ€” all checks passed
[2025-03-01] PASS Airflow 2 Fundamentals โ€” Astronomer โœ“ [2025-06-01] PASS AWS Cloud Practitioner โœ“ ยท Airflow 3 Fundamentals โœ“ [2026-01-01] PASS ๐Ÿ† Astronomer Champions Program โœ“ [2026-04-01] PASS Data Engineer Associate โ€” DataCamp โœ“ [2026-05-01] PASS Python Data Associate โ€” DataCamp โœ“ ยท All checks passed.
14
Certs
7
OSS PRs
Jan 2026
Champion
9.06
BE CGPA
Certifications
Education
InstitutionDegreeCGPAYear
Malnad College of EngineeringBE โ€” Computer Science & Engineering9.062010โ€“2014
ai_rag_projects  โ— running
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AI / RAG โ€” Projects & Conference Talks
Production AI systems, LLM pipelines, and community speaking
[2024-06-01] INFO Resume RAG deployed โ€” FAISS + OpenAI API [2025-01-01] INFO Article Insights NLP pipeline โ€” Airflow 3 live [2025-06-01] INFO Stock Sentiment Analyzer โ€” Dockerized + CI/CD deployed [2026-04-12] INFO Task still running โ€” more projects in queue...
Featured Projects
RAG ยท LangChain
Resume Analyser RAG
LangChain + FAISS RAG pipeline that answers natural language questions about uploaded resumes. Supports multi-documen...
LangChain ยท FAISS ยท OpenAI ยท Python
GitHub โ†’
Gen AI ยท OpenAI
OpenAI Sample Chatbot
Chatbot with advanced prompt engineering and OpenAI API integration patterns. Demonstrates system message design, con...
OpenAI API ยท Python ยท Prompt Engineering
GitHub โ†’
NLP ยท Airflow 3
Article Insights NLP Pipeline
Production-grade Airflow 3 NLP pipeline โ€” keyword extraction, summarization, sentiment analysis, named entity recogni...
Airflow 3 ยท NLTK ยท TextBlob ยท Python
GitHub โ†’
MLOps ยท Streamlit
Stock Sentiment Analyzer
Live stock + news sentiment dashboard with real-time price feeds, sentiment scoring, and trend visualization. Fully D...
Streamlit ยท TextBlob ยท yFinance ยท Docker ยท GH Actions
GitHub โ†’
OSS ยท Apache Airflow
Apache Airflow Core Contributions
7 merged PRs to the Apache Airflow core repository โ€” code quality improvements, bug fixes, documentation enhancements...
Python ยท Apache Airflow ยท GitHub
View PRs โ†’
Conference & Speaking
Topics: Apache Airflow ยท Data Engineering ยท Generative AI ยท RAG ยท Women in Tech
View full talk history, accepted sessions and proposals on Sessionize.
๐ŸŽค Sessionize Profile โ†’
serve_community  โ— running
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SERVE โ€” Community, Content & Connect
The output layer โ€” where knowledge and experience are published to the world
[2025-03-01] INFO Women in Data NJ Chapter Lead โ€” activated [2025-06-01] INFO Data Engineering Byte โ€” Content Expert onboarded [2025-12-01] INFO Medium: 6 articles ยท Substack: active ยท YouTube: active [2026-04-12] INFO serve_community running โ€” output: open to opportunities
Community Leadership
๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ผ Women in Dataโ„ข
NJ Chapter Lead ยท Mar 2025โ€“present
Organizing events, fostering local data community. Bootcamps: SQL, Python, PySpark, applied ML.
๐Ÿ“Š Data Engineering Byte
Content Expert
Expert content on Apache Airflow, modern data stack, and AI pipeline patterns.
Technical Writing โ€” Medium & Substack
RAG
RAG Without Vectors: How LLMs Are Learning to Navigate Documents Like Humans
Data Engineering Byte
Read โ†’
DevOps
How Kubernetes Is Quietly Draining Your Cloud Budget
DevSecOps Community
Read โ†’
Airflow
What's Actually Costing You in Apache Airflowยฎ?
Data Engineering Byte
Read โ†’
Agent Ops
Before You Deploy an AI Agent, Read This
Data Engineering Byte
Read โ†’
Podcast
Why AI Makes Data Engineers More Important
Stackademic
Read โ†’
LangChain
LangChain's Deep Agents Are Actually Worth Your Time
Shrividya Hegde's Substack
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Find Me Online
๐Ÿ’ผ LinkedIn
Shrividya Hegde
Career history, posts on Data Engineering & AI.
Connect โ†’
๐Ÿ™ GitHub
@Shrividya
16+ repos โ€” Airflow, NLP, RAG, OSS contributions.
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@shrihegde
6 articles on AI, Data Engineering, Python.
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Newsletter โ€” GenAI, Airflow, modern data stack.
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Technical posts on Data Engineering, Airflow, and AI.
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@shrividyahegde3119
Tutorials on Airflow, Data Engineering, AI/ML.
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๐Ÿ“ง Email
shrividyahegde222@gmail.com
Roles, collaboration, speaking, mentoring.
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๐Ÿ’ผ Hiring โ€” Open ๐Ÿค Collaboration ๐ŸŽค Speaking ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ Mentoring ๐Ÿ“ Technical Writing ๐ŸŒ Women in Data
serve_gallery  โ— running
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GALLERY โ€” Talks, Events & Media
Conference appearances, community events, and featured content
[2025-03-01] INFO Women in Data NJ Chapter โ€” first bootcamp hosted [2025-06-01] INFO YouTube channel โ€” tutorials published [2026-06-10] INFO Airflow NYC MeetUp โ€” "Airflow + AI: Orchestrating the Intelligent Stack" โœ“ [2026-06-10] INFO serve_gallery running โ€” more media in queue...
Media & Appearances