Mar 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Led key data initiatives across Paytm's Merchant, Central Platform and Lending charters, combining platform architecture, analytics delivery, and team leadership.
• 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁 & 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿
• Scaled Incentive Management System for 100K+ field sales executives
• Migrated to Lake Query Engine; implemented centralized data catalog and LEA Portal
• Rolled out Looker for reporting and insights
• Led a 45+ member team across DEs, SDEs, and Directors
• 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿
• Architected and executed LMS Reconciliation Framework and Collections Analytics Platform
• Automated revenue tracking and lending workflows
• Managed a team of 20+ engineers including TLs, STLs, and developers

Nov 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Led the development of a modern, scalable data platform to support real-time analytics and product insights across Junglee Games and Howzat.
• Designed and scaled infrastructure to process 1B+ daily in-game events and 50M+ monthly transactions across a 30M+ user base
• Built real-time and batch data flows for gameplay, payments, user behavior, and fraud detection
• Standardized data access and reporting with a self-serve analytics layer for product, marketing, and operations teams
• Reported directly to the President; collaborated across product, infra, and business leadership
• Stack: Apache Spark (Scala), Structured Streaming, Apache Flink, Snowflake, S3, Kafka, Druid, Metabase, Lambda, Elasticsearch, Debezium, Cassandra, Akka

Mar 2020 – Oct 2020 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Operationalize Data Analytics Pipeline for Lido Virtual Classroom product where tutors and students engage over hourly long interactive tuition sessions.
• Delivered lean and actionable data insights for CXOs and key stakeholders:
• A proxy Score for measuring Student Engagement.
• Health Checks and Customer 360 Dashboard.
• Factors affecting Refund and Renewal Analysis.
• Nudge In-class student behavior for better participation.
• Orient and scale the data team for all of the organization’s analytics and data engineering needs.
• {Reported to CTO}
• Stack: AWS lambda, Metabase, Glue, Python, R, GraphQL, BigML, Materialize.io, Scikit, Dataiku, Deep Learning

Jun 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Own Analytics & Data Engineering initiatives and deliverables @ Simplilearn (Engineering). Lead a central team that cut across all business verticals and deliver faster data-driven inputs to CXOs.
• Some of the salient work incorporates:
• Setting up modern data pipeline platform to perform BI at scale
• Drive better learner's engagement on our platform and derive behavioral insights (Product)
• Sales business process optimization and revenue growth analytics (Sales)
• Campaign Insights and Ad-spend optimization (Marketing Intelligence)
• COGS, Order life-cycle and auditing reports automation (Ops & Finance)
• {Reported to CTO & CBO}
• Stack: AWS RDS, PySpark, Snowflake, Glue, Athena, bigQuery, Presto, Superset, Python, R, Matillion

Jan 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Build generic data provisioning solutions on the Hadoop stack using MapReduce, Kafka, Hive, Hbase, Sqoop & Spark.
• Build custom data pipelines on BDAppS platform using Spark Core APIs.
• Build quality check automation framework which automates the data validation two or more remote systems using Hive UDFs, Shell & MapReduce.
• Conceptualize and implemented MyNutriPal App during company hackathon which makes diet suggestion to user based on the Macro components of the food using Scikit, Pandas, Python, Java and KNN Model.
• Build Incremental Data Calculation and Decoding framework on the HL7 message queue data using Talend,Hbase and Hive.
• Stack: Java, Scala, Hive, Hbase, Spark, Sqoop, Talend, Lucene, Kafka, BedRock, MapR, ElasticSearch

Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

• Core development team on design and build Enterprise Data Lake solutions on Hadoop Stack.
• Design and build Data Provisioning module for Enterprise MDM implemented on Python and SQL.
• Design and build Loan Amortization module using ETL and Java.
• Development of Enterprise level custom Data Pipelines and Data Integration solutions.
• Stack: ETL, Informatica, Talend, Java, CDC, Python, DWH, Spark, MDM, Shell Scripts

Apr 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Build and Implement ETL solution on IBM Datastage and Teradata for an UK financial giant.
• Implementation of Data Warehouse and Data Mart for Fortune 50 US Health Care client.
• Development and optimization of ETL and ELT strategies for Data pipeline.
• Development of Ad-Hoc OLAP reporting module and Maintenance of OLAP Cube for an Australian Govt client.