Senior data engineering leader · Data quality · Distributed systems · Applied AI
Chalapathi Koneni, senior data engineering leader

Engineering trustworthy data systems for AI, measurement, and large-scale decisions.

Chalapathi Koneni is a senior data engineering leader specializing in trustworthy data systems: data quality, distributed platforms, measurement, observability, cloud analytics, and responsible AI-assisted engineering.

20+ years building enterprise data platformsEnterprise scale across forecasting, cloud data, and decision systemsPublic contribution through research, speaking, and technical service
Chalapathi Koneni
Selected engineering work

Engineering patterns that travel across systems.

Case studies focused on the decision, the tradeoff, and what the system taught us.

Case study

Modernizing forecasting across organizational boundaries

A historical retail case study in translating source semantics, reconstructing demand history, and replacing manual replenishment with governed forecasting, audit, and ordering workflows.

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Case study

Moving enterprise analytics to a governed cloud data platform

A historical modernization case study in source-key analysis, change detection, reconciliation, access governance, and operational confidence during a Teradata-to-BigQuery transition.

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Case study

Designing reconciliation for systems that disagree

A reusable data-quality pattern for preserving conflicting evidence, testing business state and time, and recovering safely when schema-valid records describe incompatible realities.

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Selected research

Production failures, made testable.

Published and accepted work on silent corruption, anomaly detection, and evidence quality.

published · IEEE

Evidence-Quality Telemetry for Cloud Incident Response

How should incident analysis account for missing, delayed, drifting, or contradictory telemetry?

published · International Journal of Data Science and IoT Management System

A Cloud-Native Approach to Statistical Anomaly Detection and Automated Data Quality Validation

Can anomaly detection and automated data-quality controls be designed as one operational workflow?

accepted · IEEE ICDCS 2026 Industry Track

Silent Data Corruption in Distributed GenAI-Augmented Data Pipelines

Why can a pipeline remain structurally valid while its business meaning becomes wrong?

Selected professional service

Selected to review, lead, and shape technical programs.

Invited roles that involve evaluating research, guiding technical programs, and supporting the quality of professional communities.

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VLDB 2026 Industrial Track

Industrial Track Program Committee Member

Selected to review industrial research for a major international venue in data management and database systems.

02

IEEE ICDCS 2026

Industry Event Program Committee Member

Selected to evaluate industry work for an established international conference on distributed computing systems.

03

Columbia University SAES 2026

Track Chair

Responsible for shaping a technical track, coordinating its program, and supporting the quality of the invited sessions.

04

IEEE NEXOTECH / ICATI 2026

Technical Program Committee Chair

Technical-program leadership role overseeing review quality and conference content across an IEEE-affiliated event.

Professional service

Reviewing research and evaluating technical innovation.

Program committees, conference leadership, editorial review, and hackathon judging across research and student technology communities.

Speaking

Building Reliable AI Systems at Scale: Architecture Beyond Models

Keynote on enterprise AI architecture, LLMOps, observability, and the controls required beyond model quality.

Connect

Working on dependable data systems, applied AI, or technical programs?

I welcome focused conversations about research, speaking, conference service, and difficult engineering problems.

The engineering thread

A system can stay online and still produce the wrong answer.

The most difficult failures are often quiet: two valid systems disagree, evidence arrives late, a record passes schema checks while its meaning has changed, or a model receives data that no longer represents the business.

My engineering and research focus on making those conditions observable, explainable, and recoverable across forecasting, measurement, cloud platforms, and AI-enabled data pipelines.

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