About
21 years of IT industry experience (10+ years in Big Data & Cloud) in the area of architecture and leadership has developed me a very well-rounded individual with the knowledge base and ability to architect large scale data platform in both cloud & on-premises, manage big data pipelines, and optimize data processes.
Summary of IT Experience
- Strong hands-on industry experience in Java, Python, PySpark, Hadoop, Snowflake, Azure and Databricks.
- Provide technical leadership and hands-on experience to define and execute strategic roadmap for enterprise data architecture by identifying the current landscape and future business goals.
- Lead and collaborate to establish best practice and guidelines to design, develop, deploy and support data extraction, ingestion, modeling and curation.
- Built and led the team of 40+ Data Engineers and Data Analysts to migrate 60 applications from On-Premises and Hadoop based Big Data Platform to Azure & Snowflake using Confluent Kafka and DBT.
- Prior to moving to Data Platform, worked on Java, J2EE, Architecting the Multi-Tier Solutions, Object Oriented Concepts, Analysis & Design and Design Patterns.
- Worked in various industries including Insurance, Retails, Technology and Telecom.
- Natural leader with excellent inter-personal skills, self-motivated, quick learner & team player.
- Experience in guiding project managers to manage the project scope, schedule and risk.
Faculty Experience Summary
- I was visiting faculty at IIM-Lucknow, Noida campus for Big Data Analytics course. My average feedback was 4.5/5 from a class of students with average industry experience of 8+ years.
- As a visiting faculty at IMT Ghaziabad, I taught classes with other prominent professors as well as planned and taught the full course to PG students, including their grading.
- As an IBM Recognized Speaker/Presenter, I was a consistent speaker at IBM since 2014. I have also been a corporate trainer for a while.
Qualifications/Certifications:
- Master of Computer Application, India – 1999-2002 – Secured 79.2% marks (One of the university toppers)
- Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (Feb 2014)
- Cassandra 3.x Developer Associate Certification (DataStax, Jun 2020)
- Data Science (Stanford University, Feb 2020)
- Introduction to Machine Learning (IIT Kharagpur, Oct 2018)
- Architectural Thinking (IBM, Dec 2020)
- SnowPro Core Certification (Snowflake, Nov 2020)
- SCJP-5 (Java Programmer Certification-2009)
- Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner (Nov 2022)