Sanjeev Cherian

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India26 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over two decades in cloud scale enterprise data management.
  • Led high-performance engineering teams and initiatives.
  • Expert in cloud and ML technologies for data analytics.
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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipProduct Development And InnovationExperience In Big DataCloud And Ml Technologies

Other Skills

Director levelData Integration ServiceCloud native serverless ETLAirflowSparkMicroservicesChange managementCustomer support and adoption strategyEnterprise Data CatalogMachine LearningData quality/profiling productProduct planningBudgetingData profiling toolData integration

About

Over two decades of experience in building cloud scale enterprise data management services for modern ML led data analytics platforms. • Skilled at scaling and growing high performing engineering teams by running structured hiring programs, led site level programs from early career programs involving campus hiring to D&I initiatives. • Led development of cloud scale services from the ground up by leveraging the best of breed open-source frameworks (e.g. Airflow, Spark) • Spearheaded programs for improving customer adoption and increasing value creation.

Experience

26 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Ringcentral

Senior Director of Engineering

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Leading the development of Ring Central Events (https://www.ringcentral.com/rc-events.html)
  • Responsible for scaling the team for end to end product development
  • Help drive business growth
Engineering LeadershipDirector levelProduct development and Innovation

Oracle

Director Of Development

Mar 2019Dec 2024 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Led the development of Data Integration Service, a multi-tenant cloud native serverless ETL offering on OCI, from the ground up to enable OCI’s modern Lakehouse data analytics platform.
  • o Rich UI canvas that supports low code/no code ETL paradigm for building complex data pipelines while providing a data immersive experience for in-line data exploration and data preparation.
  • o Leveraged best of breed open sources frameworks, Airflow and Spark, to build a modern, scalable and high performing data orchestration and data processing capabilities.
  • o Developed microservices using the containerized application paradigm and used relevant design patterns including SAGA, Hexagonal, Circuit Breaker
  • Successfully ran Operations involving Change management, On-call, observability and achieved service SLA of 99.95% for both manageability and availability.
  • Led the customer support and adoption strategy that helped achieve growth of thousand tenancies and getting multiple reference customers.
  • Built a high-performance engineering team by scaling the team 3x to current team size of ~50 team members at IDC, Bangalore.
  • Provided site leadership as part of the OCI IDC Hub leadership team and led the OCI IDC campus program and involved in the D&I initiatives.
Data Integration ServiceCloud native serverless ETLAirflowSparkMicroservicesChange management+3

Informatica

2 roles

Director Development

Promoted

Oct 2010Mar 2019 · 8 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

  • Collaborated with product managers and architects across geographies on the product road map and strategy Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) product, a “Leader in Gartner's Metadata Magic Quadrant” in 2017 and 2018
  • Led teams to develop key EDC features around Discovery and Scanner capabilities
  • o Smart Domains and Curation using ML-like technology to intelligently classify and cluster data across the catalog.
  • o Evaluate Machine Learning (ML) for increasing the accuracy of Rule-based classification to govern structured and unstructured data using Informatica's proprietary rule engine.
  • o Informatica Cloud integration to accelerate on-boarding to Azure ecosystem
  • Designed and developed the next generation Data quality/profiling product that led Informatica to be the “Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Quality” for several years.
  • Defined the ‘Advanced Customer Engineering(ACE)' delivery and staffing model for driving customer adoption for EDC.
  • Involved in product planning and budgeting that includes holding workshops, cost projection, reviewing statement of work (SOW) with service providers for staff augmentation
Enterprise Data CatalogMachine LearningData quality/profiling productProduct planningBudgetingProduct development and Innovation+1

Development Manager

Feb 2006Feb 2009 · 3 yrs

  • Led the post-acquisition technology assessment of Similarity's Data profiling tool that helped evaluate integration options with Informatica's ETL product, PowerCenter.
  • Integrated data integration and data quality capabilities across different Informatica tools to enable collaboration for Data Analyst and Developer personas.
  • o Enabled a service oriented and Model driven architecture, based on the Eclipse modelling framework, to modernize the profiling engine.
  • Managed the scheduling, staffing and development of the data profiling product
Data profiling toolData integrationData quality capabilities

Evident software

Principal software engineer

Oct 1999Dec 2005 · 6 yrs 2 mos

  • As architect and subject matter expert (SME) of the Correlation engine led the performance track.
  • As Lead, involved in gathering requirements, enabling team members to execute and getting feedback from customers.
  • As mentor, involved in guiding and training teams.
Correlation enginePerformance trackRequirements gathering

L&t infotech

Software Engineer

Aug 1997Oct 1999 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • • Designed and developed a Web application (Java Applet) for Hitachi, Japan. The application was responsible for managing/scheduling software installations jobs for an Enterprise remotely over th
Web application developmentJava Applet

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

MBA

Jan 2009Jan 2010

MBM Engineering College Jodhpur

BE Computer Science — Computer Engineering

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