Aug 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · India

• As a Director of Engineering for Enterprise Data Management at Expedia Group, I lead cross-functional teams—including engineering, product, program management, and business stakeholders—focused on building scalable tools, platforms, and infrastructure for data collection, processing, storage, and analysis.
• Responsible for :-
• Data Governance Enhancement – Collibra Data Intelligence Platform (DIP) and Collibra Data Quality to establish enterprise-wide standards for metadata management, data discovery, and governance.
• Data Contracts & Shift-Left Enablement – Implemented data contracts using OpenMetadata to establish clear expectations between data producers and consumers, improving data reliability. Drove a shift-left culture by embedding data quality checks early in the development lifecycle, reducing data defects by 40% and accelerating adoption of Data-as-a-Product principles across engineering and business teams.
• In-house Tool Development and Cost Savings – Led the development of Expedia’s proprietary Data Discovery tool - Data Management Central (DMC) using React, GraphQL and Elastic Search, centralizing metadata and optimizing data discovery processes across the enterprise lading to 30% increase in adoption within 1st quarter and with a monthly retention rate of over 50%.
• Engineering Excellence and Continuous Improvement – Drove a culture of engineering excellence, promoting continuous improvement of processes, tools, and team capabilities to achieve high standards in data management and governance

Sep 2020 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

• Global SQL Server Estate Management – Directed one of the world’s largest SQL Server estates, ensuring 24x7 availability and performance of Expedia’s mission-critical data platforms supporting global business operations. Oversaw all aspects of SQL and NoSQL database management—including AlwaysOn, Clustering, Replication, Query Optimization and operations—across hybrid environments.
• Team Leadership & Service Reliability – Built and led a high-performing global team of 15 engineers managing SQL Server andNoSQL platforms, delivering continuous uptime and rapid incident response across distributed environments.
• Tier1 AWS Database Migrations – Spearheaded Tier-1 database migrations from Data Center to AWS, modernizing infrastructure, reducing technology debt, and improving system scalability and resilience, resulting in $12M in annual cost savings by retiring legacy infrastructure that significantly reduced technical debt.
• Automated Vulnerability Management – Designed and implemented a custom in-house (EGLOM) platform for automated vulnerability management, enhancing database security posture and eliminating manual remediation bottlenecks. This resulted in operational efficiency Gains worth 12 FTE's (~6000 hrs per quarter) worth of manual effort annually driving measurable improvements in team productivity.
• Revenue-Impacting Incident Management – Acted as the primary escalation point for high-severity, revenue-impacting incidents; led root cause analysis, rapid mitigation, and executive-level communications, ensuring minimal business disruption.
• Operational Automation & Self-Healing Systems – Drove automation of routine operational tasks through infrastructure-as-code, health checks, and remediation playbooks. Implemented self-healing alerting systems with CloudWatch and custom scripts, reducing MTTR by 40% and false alerts by 60%.

Oct 2017 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · India

• Modern Data Stack Enablement – Modernized the data platform by migrating legacy systems to AWS, integrating services like S3,Glue, Redshift, enabling a cloud-native ecosystem.
• Data Pipeline Architecture & Delivery – Oversaw the design, development, and deployment of robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Spark and Glue, and Airflow, enabling scalable ingestion and transformation of multi-source data for enterprise-wide consumption.
• Automation of Data Workflows – Implemented automation for pipeline deployment, data quality checks, and schema validations using CI/CD pipelines reducing manual handoffs and improving data reliability.
• Enterprise Platform Upgrades – Strategically planned and executed enterprise-wide upgrades across critical data infrastructure - including SQL Server (2012, 2016), and NoSQL databases—ensuring minimal downtime, enhanced performance, and alignment with evolving security and compliance standards.
• Collaborated cross-functionally to validate backward compatibility, test at scale, and coordinate phased rollouts, significantly improving operational resilience and platform reliability.
• Incident Management & SLAs – Managed high-severity incidents impacting data delivery SLAs, driving root cause analysis, long-term fixes, and executive-level updates to ensure transparency and recovery confidence.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Delivery – Partnered with product, analytics, and compliance teams to translate business requirements into data engineering solutions.

Jul 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · India

Apr 2013 – Jun 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos · India

Sep 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Feb 2011 – Sep 2011 · 7 mos · Banaglore

May 2008 – Feb 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Banaglore

Jan 2007 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos · New Delhi