Shashank Akinapalli

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Shashank Akinapalli is a Technical Architect / Senior Data Engineer & IEEE Senior Member with over 14 years of experience leading complex cloud migrations and data reliability transformations for Fortune 500 organizations, including USAA, Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), Blue cross Blue Shield Kansas(BCBS KC) and UNFI. Recognized as an Analytics Insight 40 Under 40 honoree and a Hackathon Raptors Fellow, he holds multiple awards including the Innovation & Business Awards. He has published 8 peer-reviewed research papers with multiple academic citations on distributed systems and enterprise data architecture, and serves as a juror for various Innovation & Business Awards, and numerous international IEEE technical conferences.