Havisha Raju
About Havisha Raju
Havisha Raju is a Software Engineer at Expedia Group, specializing in data platform maintenance and optimization.
Title
Havisha Raju holds the position of Software Engineer at Expedia Group.
Company
Havisha Raju is currently employed at Expedia Group, located in Seattle, Washington, United States. She joined the company in 2022 and works within the Analytics team in the Marketing organization.
Education and Expertise
Havisha Raju earned a Master's degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Illinois between 2017 and 2019. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Gandhi Institute of Technology & Management (GITAM) University, Visakhapatnam, where she studied from 2013 to 2017.
Career Background
Prior to joining Expedia Group, Havisha Raju worked with ZapCom Group Inc as a Data Engineer for 10 months. From 2019 to 2021, she was employed as an Azure Big Data Engineer at Mindtree in Seattle, Washington. Earlier in her career, she served as a Software Engineer (Data Science) Intern at the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) for 9 months and completed a 2-month internship at Indian Railways, ECOR in Andhra Pradesh, India. Additionally, she was a volunteer for the National Service Scheme from 2014 to 2016.
Professional Achievements
During her time at Expedia Group, Havisha Raju implemented an automatic Slack alerting system using AWS Lambda, which significantly reduced the time gap for ETL data alerts by 90%. She also migrated existing ETLs from R scripts to Spark SQL (Scala), optimizing processes and reducing run-times. Havisha's responsibilities include maintaining the Expedia Group Data Platform data.