Suman Kalyan Sahoo — CEO
Lead Data Platform Engineer (10+ yrs) specialising in governance-first data platforms. I set strategy, define architecture, and establish operating models that deliver compliant, high-quality, and self-serve analytics at scale. Accountable for the centralised data platform strategy, architecture and governance; enable trusted, analytics-ready data across the business. Architected end-to-end infrastructure on AWS (Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, DMS) and Snowflake; led Redshift → Snowflake migration with SLAs, RBAC and cost/performance guardrails. Standardised dbt from the ground up; operationalised a self-serve model so non-specialists can ship tested, version-controlled models via Git/CI/CD. Instituted data governance & quality (PII, privacy, GDPR) and data contracts between sources and consumers to prevent pipeline failures and strengthen compliance. Rolled out enterprise data catalog & lineage with ~80% documentation coverage, improving discoverability, ownership and auditability. Expert in building greenfield Snowflake warehouses on AWS: modelling, performance, security, testing, Time Travel, Zero Copy Cloning, Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks, Data Sharing. Orchestrate reliable pipelines with Apache Airflow; implement observability, monitoring & alerting with defined SLAs/SLOs; support batch & streaming (Kafka). Partner with Product, BI, Security & Compliance; mentor engineers and turn governance into measurable business outcomes. Skills / Expertise: AWS (Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, DMS) | Snowflake (Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks, Time Travel, Zero Copy Cloning, Data Sharing) | Amazon Redshift | dbt (data build tool) | Apache Airflow | PySpark | Python | SQL / SnowSQL | Kafka (batch & streaming) | ELT / ETL | Data Architecture & Modelling | Data Governance | Data Quality | Data Contracts | Data Catalog /Catalogue & Lineage (OpenMetadata, DataHub, Collibra) | Privacy, PII & GDPR | Observability, Monitoring & Alerting | RBAC | SLAs/SLOs | Git-based CI/CD | Modern Data Warehouse (DWH) | Data Lake / Datalake | Self-serve Analytics | Cost Optimisation
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering expert in SaaS with a focus on governance and compliance.
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Experience: 13 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Data Governance
- Data Architecture
- Data Engineering
Career Highlights
- Expert in governance-first data platforms
- Led successful migration from Redshift to Snowflake
- Operationalised self-serve analytics for non-specialists
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Education
Bachelor's degree at Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha