Nagaraj Rao Email & Phone Number

• Nagaraj has extensive experience of 25 years delivering strategic solutions spanning Data Modernization, Cloud Strategy and Migration, Legacy ETL code modernization, BigData Analytics, Data Governance, Data Visualization, Product Development, SI/AO delivery and Capability / Practice development. • During this tenure, Nagaraj was associated with two startup's (9+ years) and Accenture India for 13 years• Has deep expertise in key data domains, Enterprise data strategy & vision, enterprise data architecture and implementation.• Nagaraj has evangelized and incubated emerging Data modernization skills, led multiple mission critical BigData engagements for Health Industry Clients at North America to re-platform legacy Datawarehouse to BigData technology and enabled value discovery leveraging Data Visualization tools and Machine Learning.• Nagaraj has good understanding of current technology, architecture trends, has identified niche vendor products and leveraged his knowledge, experience to define Go to Market offerings and provide compelling solutions to Clients• Passionate about data, emerging data technologies and driving initiatives to groom future leaders and technology advisersDay in the life activities include:✔ Engage with clients for Data modernization, Cloud Strategy and Migration, ETL conversion to modern tech stacks, Data Governance and Data Visualization✔ Define go-to-market offerings for Data & Analytics✔ Provide Solutioning and Sales support✔ Evangelizing data solutions using new generation & traditional data architectures✔ Identify niche vendors and collaborate with alliance partners✔ Build Practice / CoE and delivery activities as necessarySignificant contributions during the last few months include✔ Data Virtualization solution across multi-cloud environment using Denodo, Dremio✔ Migration of 600+ databases from on-premise to AWS cloud✔ Modernization of Teradata/Neteeza Datawarehouse to Azure and Databricks stack✔ Automated conversion of legacy Informatica, Abinitio ETL code to Pyspark✔ Contact center automation using Kore.AI platform and build CoE in subsequent months✔ Data Catalog and governance solution with Collibra, Alation, Atlan tools✔ Information Life cycle management and cloud based on-demand archiving using vendor tools ✔ Everest Peak matrix assessment for Analytics✔ Go to Market offering for Healthcare Analytics✔ Thought leadership on modernizing complex Oracle legacy applications

Listed skills include Big Data, Hadoop, Oracle, Capability Development, and 6 others.

• Senior Director

  Virtusa

  Jan 2018 - Present - Chennai Area, India