Aug 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Remote

• Managing multiple pods spanning across data serving & data warehousing layer.
• Initiated and driven migration of analytics stack of Paytm driving 5x improvement in query run times and saving 500K dollars per annum. This project had an impact on 1000+ direct consumers of data across various Paytm entities.
• Cross team collaboration & driving product initiatives along with data product team.
• People management for senior tech members (ICs) and L1 managers.

May 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru

• Managing team of ~15 data engineers and analyst contributing towards data journey of Curefit.
• Hiring and building data engineering team from the scratch.
• Working with product owners and engineering leaders to evangelise data products.
• Experienced in migration from redshift based ecosystem to horizontally scalable data lake.
• Big data architecture design for data flow, ETL's , Data quality, Data discovery and governance.
• Experience in enabling transition of analyst to data engineering role with proper mentorship.

Jun 2019 – May 2020 · 11 mos · Bengaluru

• Helping startups around India & SEA region to build a functioning scalable data vertical from scratch.
• Understanding business goals, data strategy of company and designing charter for data team to achieve same.
• Defining roles, setting up team by hiring relevant people as per requirements.
• Design the data platform architecture to suit org's long term goals.
• Data warehouse design considering metrics and frequent use cases across org.
• Built components like data quality as service, data discovery layer, real time processing layer etc.
• In this journey I have worked with multiple companies from mobility, insurance, e-commerce and other domains on different fronts and helped them to set up for scalable data journey.

Jul 2015 – Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru

• Leading team with multiple projects in the field of data engineering and big data applications using
• technologies like Spark, Kafka , NoSql and distributed systems.
• Inventor and project lead for in-house Maps (traffic layer) at OLA.
• Involved in architecting and leading implementation efforts for ETL layer, big data frameworks and data
• intensive applications.
• Co-creator for OLA simulation framework.
• Key member in architecting data quality and governance tool at OLA.
• Built location intelligence system using user preferences over millions of rides.
• Lead the project for building community experience for regular Ola share users.

Jul 2011 – Jul 2015 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on big data technologies like Hadoop framework, Apache pig, Apache hive, HDFS to build data
• pipeline frameworks for large scale analytics and data science use cases.
• Designed and implemented end to end relevance framework for brand advertising business using big
• data technologies.
• Built real time dashboards and analytics solution for multiple use cases.
• Designed and implemented distributed machine learning algorithms using Map Reduce paradigm.
• Developed system for storing and analysing user behaviour towards frequency and recency for an ad campaign.

Aug 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Worked in the area of advance databases and warehousing solutions where I designed and implemented new DBStore/indexing technique for RDF datasets to speed up queries.