Naveen K. Email & Phone Number

With over a decade of professional experience, my forte lies in leading cutting-edge cloud and data technologies at Nielsen. My mission is to harness serverless architectures and Spark-based development to propel innovation and business value. I am committed to the organization's culture of agility, leveraging my expertise to foster diverse and informed technology strategies that align with our corporate goals.In my role, I've led the transition to distributed data systems and microservices utilizing Kubernetes, significantly enhancing our service capabilities. My leadership in building and managing diverse teams, both offshore and onsite, has empowered us to influence Nielsen's strategic direction with effective technology solutions, while my hands-on experience with emerging technologies ensures we stay at the forefront of industry innovation.Key Expertise: Agile & DevOps MethodologiesArchitecture Patterns: Microservices, Event-Driven, Data MeshIaaS,PaaS,SaaSServerless ArchitectureCloud Cost OptimizationDisaster RecoveryREST API Design & DevelopmentPeople Management, Mentor & CoachCloud Platforms: AWSData Analytics: Apache Spark, TIBCO SpotfireOrchestration: Apache Airflow, TIBCOProgramming Languages: Java, Scala, Python, SQLDatabase Technologies: PostgreSQL, Presto/Trino, MySQL

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  Project Manager Team Lead

  Nielsen

  Jun 2016 - Present - United States

  Lead the adoption of modern cloud technologies, serverless architectures, and Spark-based development practices to enhance agility and innovation.Continuously monitored and evaluated emerging technologies within the area of expertise to drive informed decision-making and recommendations.Ability to maintain a roadmap for core service capabilities and interfaces that enable application and feature teams to deliver business value quickly.Building Out Data Systems leveraging distributed… Show more Lead the adoption of modern cloud technologies, serverless architectures, and Spark-based development practices to enhance agility and innovation.Continuously monitored and evaluated emerging technologies within the area of expertise to drive informed decision-making and recommendations.Ability to maintain a roadmap for core service capabilities and interfaces that enable application and feature teams to deliver business value quickly.Building Out Data Systems leveraging distributed data technologies and MicroServices Leveraging Kubernetes.Influenced the strategic direction of the business by applying technology solutions to drive the business goals.Built and lead multiple teams of offshore and onsite data engineers that build data pipelines to store and compute data.Drive technical excellence and innovation within the team, mentoring and developing engineers to build their skills.Maintained quality team contribution; ability to assess team member work product and attitude.Maintained data quality, accuracy, reliability of data throughout its development lifecycle.Modeled new CICD practices to drive towards automation for the releases.Migrated multiple onprem hadoop applications to AWS cloud & TIBCO platform to Apache Airflow orchestration.Managed the relationship with partners, ensuring projects are delivered within scope and time.Removed impediments and facilitate integrations with internal and external teams.Collaborate with different teams in providing guidance for performance optimizations across the platform.Strong communication skills with the ability to influence in an dynamic, cross-functional environment. Show less