Description

Highly accomplished Data Architect with expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing data solutions. Specializing in Data Lakes and Data Warehouses, with over 12 years of experience on cloud platforms. Successfully migrated multiple on-premises data warehouses (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL) to AWS, leveraging cloud-native technologies such as AWS Redshift and AWS Athena. Proven expertise in designing and implementing complex data pipelines for real-time, near-real-time, and batch processing. Strong track record of delivering impactful solutions, optimizing data infrastructure, and driving business value through data-driven insights. Exceptional leadership skills in managing teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to optimize costs and improve performance through innovative designs and best practices in data engineering

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Algonomy
Principal Data Architect, Head of Solution Engineering
March 2010 - December 2024 (14 years and 9 months)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Spearheaded data architecture for Algonomy's flagship retail analytics products and CDP.
• Reduced infra cost by 25% by designing and implementing a cloud-based Data Lakehouse architecture for CDP.
• Led the evaluation and adoption of various cloud databases and data services like AWS Redshift, AWS Athena, AWS Aurora, AWS Kinesis, AWS EMR, etc
• Designed streaming data ingestion pipelines using Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Firehose.
• Designed a Spark based application to organize and curate files in data lake to make it ready for analytics using SQL. This application automates various data quality checks, data standardization and conversion of files to parquet format.
• Handled various responsibilities including Data Modelling, Solution Design and Delivery, Pre-delivery Workshops, Pre sales Support, etc.
• Travelled to multiple customer locations in North America and Southeast Asia to conduct business and technical workshops.
• Led a team of 15+ data engineers as the Head of Solution Engineering
Nexgen
Technical Architect
May 2008 - March 2010 (1 year and 10 months)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Led design and deployment of OLAP Data Models, Data Pipelines (ETL), and MOLAP Cubes for analytics solutions.
• Performance optimization of MDX and SQL queries.
Manthan
Lead – Data Warehouse Engineering
June 2005 - May 2008 (2 years and 11 months)
• Designed high-performance Data Models and Data Pipelines (ETL) for retail analytics products.
• Led development and publishing of analytical reports and data visualization.
• Performance optimization of reports and data pipelines.