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Boise, Idaho, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Hands on technical manager leading the distributed data engineering teams in building and maintaining the big data analytics platform in Walmart Labs. Implemented several high visible projects with significant business impact• Partnered with upper management, product managers, analysts, data scientists and other stakeholders to create vision and roadmaps for data analytics and insights.• Completed data migration to Google Cloud BigQuery. Building Data Lake on GCP Hive by ingesting Kafka events and using technologies such as Spark, Scala, Hudi, Hive, Presto, Ranger, Python, Tableau, ThoughtSpot and Looker. • Architected and designed low latency batch and real time end to end data solutions for ecommerce merchandising domain.• Supporting data science community on fraud detection use case.• Managing multiple complex programs/projects using Agile-scrum methods.• Set high standards and focus on data quality, production support and software engineering best practices.• Championed the use of big data platform and built the data culture in the organization.• Mentored and coached individual contributors and managers to create high performing team.Delivered Projects like : Walmart+, Walmart Subscription, OneApp Integration, GCP BigQuery migration and many more

San Jose, Ca, Us

Worked for over 14 years at eBay in positions of increasing project management and team leadership responsibilities. As Senior Manager defined and executed multi-year technology roadmap for Data solutions.• Provided strategic and tactical leadership to distributed Technical teams of ETL and Business Intelligence (BI) developers. Led Data Product team along with Technical Engineering team from Jan 2017 to Apr 2018 to support dynamic company priorities. Collaborated with program leads on business requirements and KPI definition. • Delivered high-quality projects and designed innovative solutions to meet challenging business needs, including, Payment, Product Based Commerce (PBC), GDPR, Concierge service, Self-Service, HelpBOT, eBay & PayPal separation, NL-IVR, Genesys application integration, PingID 2FA implementation, and Data Center Migration, saving time and improving productivity and customer experience.• Built and delivered world-class operational and analytical platform successfully from the ground up using Exadata, Teradata, Hadoop, and MicroStrategy technologies. Enabled Self-Service using MicroStrategy and scaled it 5x to support 2000+ users including analysts; This new platform made significant business impact and increased operational efficiencies due to faster and timely insight and serving as single source of truth for Customer Experience reporting. • Supported Tableau reports used in Control plan and Data exploration to support large initiatives ramp-up. • Built automation for BI access control based on users’ role, saving time for users and increasing productivity.• Drove platform optimization by processing workload from Teradata to Hadoop HDFS cluster with Apache Spark.• Steered product evolution by driving adoption of technology that added value to customers and the organization. • Introduced and implemented operational changes to improve performance, availability, and overall data quality in technology stack to meet business needs

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led Technical Development Team through delivery of multi-year strategy and product roadmap for Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). Performed project scoping, resource planning, hiring and staff management.Built and delivered a Customer Segmentation platform which handles 2+ million API hits per day with response time of less than 2 seconds. It is being used to route customers’ calls to specific agents, significantly improving customer experience. Integrated data from a third-party vendor application into eBay DW. Established new support team from ground up in China to provide 24/7 support for data and reporting operations to end users across the globe. Built brand new development team in China to augment NA teams.Delivered JAVA-based reporting portal (ReportHub) for launching all dashboards, reports, and training materials for company Customer Experience users as a single point of entry for all their data needs.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Managed multiple concurrent projects. Designed data model, and architected solutions to integrate various internal/external applications data. Collaborated with business partners and external vendor to gather and understand project requirements to deliver design. Led onshore/offshore development team.„Designed and architected solution to build Metadata Management tool, enabling management of metadata centrally and improving reporting accuracy.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led onshore and offshore project teams through all phases of end-to-end data integration projects, infrastructure projects, and batch support team. Contributed to project design, scoping, and resource planning. Traveled to Shanghai, China to train developers.• Developed ETLs using AbInitio tool, PLSQL code and Teradata BTEQ scripting.• Re-architected and migrated reporting platform into eBay EDW Teradata platform using DW standard framework, allowing business users to access all their customer experience data and eBay site data in one place for ease of reporting and analysis.• Created Disaster Recovery plans and executed failed over/back of the application without disrupting business operations of business users.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Gathered business requirements and developed automated batch process for Trust application’s critical ELVIS flagged data. Provided technical and database expertise to entire group as well as 24/7 support for application. • Developed and implemented custom-built HR application called PIX that streamlined performance review process.• Tuned-up entire application by re-writing batch process and SQL logics, improving performance and scalability. • Divided complex, mission-critical OLTP databases into 2 databases without impacting users.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Universal City, Ca, Us

Bs, Electronics

Post Bachelor, Computer Science

Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Database

Unix And C++