Jan 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

• 🔹Practice Leadership | Scaled High-Impact Data Organizations from the Ground Up
• Founded and led the Data & Analytics Practice, building and scaling a 30+ member team of engineers, data scientists, and product leaders.
• ▶ Anticipated emerging customer needs and proactively aligned people, process, and platforms to deliver measurable value.
• 🔹 Operational Excellence | Profitability & Performance at Scale
• Provided executive-level leadership across project delivery and financial performance—achieving consistently high billability, revenue growth, and margin optimization.
• ▶ Strengthened vendor partnerships and contributed as a subject matter expert in strategic business development efforts.
• 🔹 Platform & Technology Leadership | Managing Data at Petabyte Scale
• Directed cross-functional teams across engineering, data science, and product management, with full ownership of robust, enterprise-grade data platforms.
• ▶ Successfully managed systems handling 1+ petabyte of data, ensuring resilience, scalability, and operational excellence.
• 🔹 Innovation & Product Development | Next-Gen Cloud & ML Solutions
• Architected a next-generation data platform, integrating Kubernetes and Terraform to reduce deployment times by 50% and significantly lower cloud costs.
• ▶ Led the development of advanced ML models for predictive analytics, improving forecasting accuracy by 90%+ and enhancing customer engagement.
• 🔹 Enterprise Data Sharing | Governance, Compliance & Collaboration
• Rolled out a multi-tenant data-sharing platform enabling secure, scalable collaboration across enterprise business units.
• ▶ Drove GDPR and CCPA compliance through robust governance frameworks, while elevating trust, security, and data accessibility.
• 🔹 Agile Transformation | Driving Continuous Delivery and Team Velocity
• Pioneered Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices, transforming delivery velocity and organizational agility.
• ▶ Improved delivery timelines by 30%.

May 2016 – Jan 2021 · 4 yrs 8 mos · India

• 🔹 Enterprise Data Strategy & C-Suite Alignment
• Defined and executed data strategies aligned with digital transformation and innovation goals.
• ▶ Partnered with CIOs/CDOs to shape roadmaps, frameworks, and enterprise operating models.
• ▶ Positioned data as a business asset to enable monetization, compliance, and AI-readiness.
• 🔹 Modern Data Platform Architecture
• Architected scalable platforms using Hadoop and Spark to support real-time processing.
• ▶ Reduced latency by 40% and embedded ML-ready pipelines into core infrastructure.
• ▶ Enabled hybrid cloud/on-prem architectures supporting compliance and performance.
• 🔹 Cloud & Streaming Solutions
• Delivered cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure) and real-time data pipelines with Kafka, Spark Streaming.
• ▶ Enabled AI/ML workloads, IoT analytics, and intelligent automation across functions.
• 🔹 Data Products & Business Impact
• Launched self-service data products and APIs that accelerated insights and improved adoption.
• ▶ Boosted product usage by 60% and increased new customer acquisition by 20%.
• ▶ Delivered role-based dashboards aligned with business KPIs.
• 🔹 Strategic Advisory & Transformation Roadmaps
• Led AS-IS/TO-BE architecture planning and presented strategies to executive leadership.
• ▶ Secured buy-in for modernization initiatives and guided enterprise data evolution.
• 🔹 Governance & EDH Consolidation
• Established data governance frameworks, unifying fragmented systems into a centralized EDH.
• ▶ Ensured compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and sector-specific data regulations.
• 🔹 End-to-End Lifecycle Management
• Oversaw ingestion to consumption across structured/unstructured data ecosystems.
• ▶ Standardized ETL/ELT pipelines and embedded observability across all data flows.
• Impact Highlights
• ✅ 40% latency reduction
• ✅ 60% increase in product adoption
• ✅ 20% client growth via data-driven offerings
• ✅ Unified enterprise data into a governed EDH
• ✅ Enabled faster, smarter business decisions at scale

Mar 2013 – Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · India

• 🔹 Scalable Data Engineering | High-Volume Data Processing & Optimization
• Designed and implemented robust data pipelines to manage multi-source, large-scale datasets.
• ▶ Built ETL workflows using Apache Spark, Hive, and SQL, ensuring seamless data integration and transformation.
• ▶ Optimized data storage and retrieval in Hadoop HDFS and Amazon Redshift, improving query performance by 25%.
• ▶ Automated daily extraction/loading processes, reducing manual effort by 40% and increasing system reliability.
• 🔹 Collaboration & Advanced Data Analysis | Empowering Data Science Workflows
• Partnered with data scientists to accelerate modeling and analytics efforts through efficient engineering.
• ▶ Delivered clean, aggregated datasets using Python and SQL for downstream analytics.
• ▶ Implemented data quality checks and monitoring frameworks across platforms to ensure trusted, consistent data.
• 🔹 Leadership & Global Team Management | Building Scalable Data Functions
• Established and scaled the global Data Engineering (DE) function from the ground up.
• ▶ Led strategy, budgeting, architecture, innovation, and stakeholder/vendor engagement.
• ▶ Defined the DE vision, roadmap, and operating model, enabling sustainable team growth and delivery excellence.
• 🔹 Center of Excellence (CoE) Strategy | Roadmap, Talent, & Delivery
• Developed the CoE’s long-term vision, framework, and delivery processes to drive enterprise-wide impact.
• ▶ Selected as the founding member of a sales reporting-focused strategic team.
• ▶ Built offshore capabilities and transitioned services from vendors, ensuring operational continuity.
• 🔹 Client Leadership & Solution Architecture | Enterprise Analytics Delivery
• Led the Strategy & Architecture Group within the Reporting & Analytics CoE.
• ▶ Directed a major analytics transformation program for a global pharmaceutical client.
• ▶ Served as Solution Architect, delivering a scalable BI ecosystem and managing enterprise implementation.

Apr 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

• 🔹 Web Application Development | Enterprise-Grade Java Applications
• Designed and delivered robust web applications using Struts and Spring MVC, with end-to-end development across backend and frontend layers.
• ▶ Developed SOAP-based web services for secure, scalable data exchange with external systems.
• ▶ Ensured seamless UI/UX integration while maintaining enterprise performance standards.
• 🔹 API & Database Integration | Scalable Data Access Layers
• Integrated REST APIs to enable mobile-to-enterprise communication and system interoperability.
• ▶ Engineered Hibernate-based DAO layers for efficient, optimized database operations with MySQL.
• ▶ Enhanced modularity and performance through clean ORM practices and reusability.
• 🔹 Agile Development & Code Optimization | Scalable & Maintainable Codebases
• Contributed across the full software lifecycle using Agile methodologies and continuous delivery practices.
• ▶ Refactored legacy codebases to improve speed, reliability, and modular design.
• ▶ Applied Spring DI and AOP to enhance maintainability and promote clean, scalable architecture.