Binod Kumar

Operations Associate

Pune, Maharashtra, India1 yr 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led a team of 8 data engineers at Mastercard.
  • Managed a portfolio of 50+ projects successfully.
  • Developed comprehensive training programs for data engineers.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering Manager in the Fintech industry with strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringTeam LeadershipTrainingMentoringProject ManagementEtlImage Processing

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesCConfluenceData ModelingData StructuresDatabase AdministrationDatabase Management System (DBMS)DatabasesExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)FMEGitHTMLImage SegmentationJiraLeadership

About

Result-driven Data Engineering Manager with a total 7+ years of experience in designing and implementing data pipelines,  data delivery from data sourcing, data transformation, data integration, validation and automation, optimizing data processing, maintaining documentation and collaborating with cross functional teams, 5+ years of experience in technical mentorship and project data management and 2+ years of experience in managing a team of data engineers, responsible for a portfolio of 50+ projects and performance evaluation and career growth of the team.

Experience

1 yr 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Mastercard

3 roles

Manager

Promoted

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Managing a team of 8 data engineers in Mastercard Data & Services Technology division responsible for maintaining successful client data integration on a portfolio of 50+ Test & Learn (enterprise software) contracts across several verticals spanning banking, retail, airline, restaurants
  • Proactively identify projects for teammates balancing their bandwidth, business needs and professional growth. Guide division of team responsibilities among teammates to share team ownership; foster culture of inclusion and encourage development of new team processes
  • Manage career growth, responsible for representing teammates in the Performance management process and conveying back and discussing bi-annual career review feedbacks with direct reports
  • Led 2022 and 2023 DE Internship Program in Pune office including onboarding, project staffing, managers' coaching, final presentation and evaluation process.
  • Lead of Data Delivery Training and Onboarding Team.
  • Led the Onboarding process for 2022 and 2023 Campus Hires guiding 25+ DEs in the process contributing as organizers, buddies and session leads
  • Decentralized the DE onboarding process creating a detailed trainer guide for nine Data delivery teams(75+ DEs) to onboard new hires all through out the year and institutionalized the same
  • Introduced an enhancement of training project covering additional exercises teaching debugging techniques
  • Collaborated with learning and development team to create a learning pathway for Technical Implementation team consisting of Data Engineers, Integration Engineers and BizOps Engineers reaching a total of 100+ engineers
  • Conducted multiple recruiting interviews for lateral hiring and campus interviews for the roles of interns and full time data engineers
SQLData ModelingData EngineeringTeam Leadership

Senior Data Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2019Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Led a team of 4 DEs while being responsible for career growth for additional 4 DEs under the Performance Management process. The team grew to 7 DEs with my responsibilities around project assignments, data delivery, team processes, mentorship and career growth.
  • Led data engagements while mentoring junior DEs and Consultants, taking a more strategic view to ensure client projects were set up for success, ensuring high renewal prospects and cross-sell opportunities across 25+ projects
  • Led the team to retrofit 60+ client instances to comply with encrypted credentials connecting to respective data sources
  • Collaborated with senior engineers across data engineering, software engineering and product management to brainstorm planning for a remote 2020 internship during COVID-19 situation due to lack of corporate network connectivity, Finalizing project, weekly checkpoints, individual responsibilities, guidelines on Intern : Buddy relationship and shadowing sessions for Interns
  • Collaborated with internship core-team across all roles to create outreach and onboarding structure for in-office 2021 Internship Program, working on project identification, onboarding intern managers of their role and responsibilities
  • Lead of Data Engineering Training and Onboarding Team, guiding sub-ordinates to revamp content and processes around technical session and training project for DEs and consultants following a process of soliciting feedback, bringing documentation up-to-date, including easy to follow guidelines and helpful scripts for a quick and efficient training experience
  • Led the creation of processes around Technology Team check in survey by interacting with leadership team consisting of Directors and VPs to share results and initial insights, soliciting deeper insight from broader team
  • Conducted multiple recruiting interviews for lateral hiring and campus interviews for the roles of interns and full time data engineers
SQLLeadershipData EngineeringMentoring

Data Engineer II

Mar 2018Aug 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Collaborated with clients and client dedicated internal teams of business consultants to determine analysis requirements, identify data availability, and configure data transfer processes
  • Architected ETL processes to enable analyses of major marketing campaigns for over 10+ Test & Learn clients across a variety of industries like financial services, retail, grocery, entertainment and airlines
  • Mentored several junior team members to successfully navigate flagship projects, both from a technical and task planning perspective.
  • Use FME, ogr2ogr, and QGIS to prepare map and spatial data for use in Mastercard D&S Technology platforms
  • Contributed in finalizing Procedure documentation template and creating standards for advertising new procedures and enhancements
  • Brought around twenty ETLP owned procedures' code up to best practice as per latest KM standards designed by SPL dream team
  • Point person for organizing all kinds trainings for APAC offices for Data Engineers and Business Consultants
  • Revamped the approach of handling multiple on-demand training requests from APAC offices to effectively cater to all the requests and make the process more efficient for both trainer and trainee
SQLSQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)Data EngineeringMentoring

Mastercard advisors

Data Engineer I

Jun 2016Feb 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Collaborated with Mastercard business consultants and mentor to setup metrics derived from transactions data to be leveraged by Mastercard's Test and Learn software to gain sales performance insights
  • Developed enterprise data ETL solutions using SQL, SSIS, PowerShell and in-house ETL tool for multi-million dollar contracts across 5+ client projects
  • Optimized the process of integrating very large and complex business datasets, in order to instantiate client dedicated instances across variety of industries like retail, restaurant and financial
Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)SQLData EngineeringETL

Samsung r&d institute

Student Trainee

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Title - Robust Image Segmentation Algorithm
  • Implemented an Unsupervised Image Segmentation method
  • Proposed Color quantization technique to quantize color levels in an image to representative classes
  • Implemented J-Value criterion making use of mean and variance of pixels’ positions inside local windows detecting boundaries and interior regions based on a high or low J-Value obtaining intermediate J-Image
  • Made use of seeded Region growing method after determining seeds based on J-Value, resulting in an initial over-segmented image. An Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering method was used to merge the regions.
  • Achieved a recognition rate of around 90 percent for both grey-scale as well as colored images
Image SegmentationImage Processing

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Electrical Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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