Mar 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Built a high-scale data platform managing 400+ TB of data in a modern lakehouse architecture.
• 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 & 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗱-𝘁𝗼-𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗽𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 and orchestration frameworks (batch + streaming) powering critical analytics and ML use cases.
• 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 that reduced query latency by 40% and enabled faster insights for business stakeholders.
• 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 across teams — standardizing ingestion, storage formats, schema evolution, and lineage tracking.
• 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗗, laying the foundation for advanced analytics, personalization, and fraud-detection use cases.
• 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵: Transitioned from building individual pipelines to leading architectural decisions for scalability, governance, and reliability of CRED’s data platform.

Jun 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · India

• 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗟𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 across AWS, GCP, and Azure, enabling advanced analytics and AI adoption for large customers.
• 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 by migrating from legacy platforms (e.g., Netezza, Greenplum) to BigQuery and Redshift, improving query performance and reducing infrastructure costs by up to 50%.
• 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗽𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 with Apache Airflow and ETL tools, handling big data workloads at scale while ensuring high reliability and lineage tracking.
• 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Bigtable, Datastore) with high-availability setups such as InnoDB Cluster, Group Replication, Patroni, and MySQL Orchestrator.
• 𝗣𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 such as Google Cloud Spanner, enabling global scalability and consistency for enterprise applications.
• 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗔/𝗗𝗥 solutions for OLTP databases across clouds, ensuring resilience against outages and seamless business continuity.
• 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝗻-𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 for automated data management, reducing manual effort and boosting team productivity.
• 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵: Progressed from implementing individual pipelines and migrations to owning end-to-end architecture and multi-cloud strategy, trusted to lead some of the first large-scale enterprise data migrations to cloud at Searce.

Jun 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Coimbatore Area

• 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗕𝗔, mastering SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB, and CosmosDB with a strong focus on performance tuning, security, and HA/DR strategies.
• 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝟭𝟬𝟬+ 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 and multiple Azure deployments, ensuring scalability, high availability, and cost optimization.
• 𝗟𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) from on-prem and cloud environments to RDS and Aurora, achieving minimal downtime.
• 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗔 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: SQL Server AlwaysOn, PostgreSQL Patroni/pgpool/repmgr, MySQL multi-master, Bucardo, Percona XtraDB Cluster.
• 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗘𝗧𝗟 𝗽𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 with Talend and SSIS, reducing manual workload and accelerating reporting cycles.
• 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗪𝗦 leveraging Redshift, EMR, Athena, and Data Lakes, enabling analytics at scale.
• 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗥𝗘 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘁 by automating workloads with serverless solutions and embedding proactive monitoring, backup, and recovery strategies.
• 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗔/𝗗𝗥 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and security frameworks across Windows/Linux infrastructures, ensuring compliance with RPO/RTO standards.
• 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵: Transitioned from a DBA role to a multi-cloud architect and SRE, gaining full-stack exposure across infra, databases, and data platforms — laying the foundation for your later specialization in large-scale Data Engineering and AI platforms.

Mar 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Coimbatore Area

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