The Corporate Data Platform drives a data-centric culture by offering products and services that provide easy, secure access to high-quality, well-documented, and connected datasets. Built on AWS and Databricks, the cloud-native Corporate Data Lake eliminates data replication and facilitates transparent data sharing through secure, governed processes. It enhances collaboration by allowing teams to pool resources while maintaining security and privacy. Key features include an improved user experience, role-based access, seamless data sharing, and out-of-the-box data quality controls to strengthen data governance and compliance.▪ Led the complete functional ownership and development of the COGT Data Lake Platform from scratch, ensuring strategic alignment and execution from concept to delivery.▪ Partnered with multiple internal teams and external vendors (Databricks) while coordinating with data-producing source systems to deliver a seamless data platform.▪ Engaged with business and platform users to translate high-level requirements into actionable deliverables, fostering alignment across all stakeholders.▪ Oversaw backlog grooming and agile practices, ensuring consistent delivery and prioritization of tasks to meet project objectives.

Rapidly built and led a high-performing team of approximately 25 individual contributors, including 2 senior architects and 2 technical managers, fostering a motivated and collaborative environment.▪ Spearheaded the development of the Numerify Platform, a cloud-native PaaS on AWS, facilitating rapid analytics SaaS application development across various verticals.▪ Led the Platform engineering group in defining and refining platform architecture and design, leveraging a robust tech stack that includes AWS services, Core Java, Spring Framework, Spark, Kafka, Redshift, Snowflake, Airflow, and PySpark for machine learning applications.▪ Collaborated closely with the chief architect to evaluate and recommend technologies that align with the organization’s short- and long-term strategic vision. Worked with co-founders and the head of product management to prioritize platform deliverables, ensuring timely and high-quality execution aligned with business objectives.▪ Managed the planning and execution of engineering deliverables, ensuring seamless performance during the design and runtime phases of the platform.

▪ Strategic Partner Enablement: Spearheaded the adoption of SAP Analytics by formulating comprehensive strategies for partner enablement and fostering innovation in new SAP BI offerings.▪ Partner Development: Identified and cultivated key partnerships within the SAP Analytics ecosystem, enhancing SAP BI capabilities by integrating Software Development Kits (SDKs).▪ Market Insight Recruitment: Engaged and recruited strategic partners across product areas to collaborate closely with product owners and development teams, ensuring timely market insights and feedback on upcoming products.▪ Roadmap Advancement: Guided the product roadmap in collaboration with product management by synthesizing and leveraging consolidated feedback from partner interactions to inform development priorities.

▪ Semantic Layer and Data Federator Development: Led the product development of the Business Objects Enterprise (BOE) Semantic Layer, including the Data Federator for multi-source universes, Universe Bridges, and new data source connectivity. Developed tools for migrating legacy semantic layer objects to the new framework.▪ Strategic Product Leadership: Collaborated with senior management to establish the product strategy, development, and delivery of the Business Objects suite tailored for the mid-market (SME) segment.▪ Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engaged with various cross-functional teams and the global product standards organization to ensure project alignment and integration.▪ Program Structuring and Management: Established a comprehensive program structure addressing budget allocations, engineering plans, infrastructure, and release mechanisms for Development and Quality Assurance teams across locations.▪ Team Building and Leadership: Successfully built and led a team of over 40 professionals, including senior and junior individual contributors, 4 technical leads, and 2 development managers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.