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Muralidhar Adapala

Muralidhar Adapala

Director Data Platform Engineering

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London, Greater London1000 GBP/hourMember since September 15, 2025
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About

Strategic Data & AI Leader with 28+ years of success in building and scaling enterprise Big

Data, Cloud, and AI/ML platforms across FinTech, Telecom, Banking, Life Sciences, and

Media. Proven track record of delivering £10M+ transformation programs, leading global teams (70+ staff), and aligning data strategy with organizational goals. Expertise in

Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure, AWS, AI/ML, and Data Governance. Adept at bridging technology and business needs to drive innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

Experience

Strategic Data & AI Leader with 28+ years of success in building and scaling enterprise Big

Data, Cloud, and AI/ML platforms across FinTech, Telecom, Banking, Life Sciences, and

Media. Proven track record of delivering £10M+ transformation programs, leading global teams (70+ staff), and aligning data strategy with organizational goals. Expertise in

Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure, AWS, AI/ML, and Data Governance. Adept at bridging technology and business needs to drive innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

Core Competencies & Technologies

Leadership & Strategy: Data Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Data Governance, Pre-Sales,

Program Delivery (£10M+), CxO Engagement

AI & Analytics: OpenAI, LLMs, ML/AI, NLP , Spark MLlib, Predictive Analytics, Real-Time

Insights

Platforms & Cloud: Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM

BigInsights, Azure (Purview, Synapse, Data Lake, Data Factory), AWS (Redshift, EMR, S3,

Airflow), FiveTran, DBT .

Big Data & Engineering: Spark, PySpark, Kafka, Hive LLAP , Nifi, Streamsets, Scala, Python

Governance & Tools: Apache Atlas, Purview, Solidatus, Power BI, OBIEE, Informatica.

Data Modelling Tools: EA Sparx, ERWin and ERStudio.

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix, Sybase

Education

Masters in Computer Applications

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