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EP 50: Evolution of Enterprise Data Engineering in Gen AI Era

Sep 21, 2026 · 24m

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Shashank Akinapalli is a Senior Data Engineer at TCS where he leads cloud data lakehouse initiatives and real-time streaming architectures for supply chain intelligence. With 14 years of experience across IBM DataStage, Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, AWS, and Spark-based ecosystems, he has previously worked with USAA in banking and Blue Cross Blue Shield in healthcare. IN THIS EPISODE: ▪ The biggest architectural shift when migrating from IBM DataStage to a modern cloud lakehouse — and why the technical migration is the easier half, while reconstructing encoded business knowledge is the real challenge ▪ How to choose between Snowflake and Databricks: Databricks for heavy transformation and…