Sanjana Venkatesh

Awards & Recognition

A snapshot of outcomes recognized by stakeholders and peers.

USC Capstone (2024)

1st Place — Intelligent Fab Monitoring & Maintenance System

Built a real-time geospatial analytics platform for semiconductor fab monitoring, including geofencing and XGBoost-based RUL prediction.

  • Tracked 2M+ RTLS devices; processed 100K+ logs/day
  • Achieved 82% RUL prediction accuracy
  • Enabled event-driven alerts; reduced equipment downtime
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Quantiphi

Recognized for $10M+ Annual Infrastructure Cost Savings

Led legacy Hadoop modernization to GCP and optimized Spark workloads to materially reduce infrastructure spend.

  • Modernized 1,500+ Hadoop/MapReduce jobs to Dataproc
  • Optimized Spark parameters (executors, shuffle, SSD balancing)
  • Delivered audit-ready reporting with 99%+ data accuracy
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Additional Highlights

$1.2M+
Annual savings enabled by Looker metrics layer insights
$23K
Annual AWS savings via EC2 right-sizing
42%
Reduced ingestion latency via API-to-Snowflake automation