Natu Lauchande is a highly skilled software engineer with a wealth of experience in building highly scalable data pipelines and distributed systems. With programming expertise in Scala, Java, Ruby, and Python, Lauchande has worked extensively in data engineering and cloud computing, with a specialization in Apache Spark, Hadoop, ElasticSearch, Lambda Architectures, MySQL, and AWS-based architectures (EMR, EC2, SQS, Dynamo, S3, Cloudwatch, RDS). Lauchande also possesses an in-depth understanding of machine learning, with practical experience in training pipelines, text mining, and classification. Lauchande is a graduate of ISCTEM, where they earned their Bsc(Hons), and the University of the Witwatersrand, where they studied for their MSC(Eng) degree. Currently serving as a Senior Data Engineer at Locafox GmbH, Lauchande is undoubtedly an asset to any team they join.