With over 12 years of experience in data engineering & MLOps, I am currently a staff software engineer at Walmart Global Tech, where I build and maintain data pipelines and reports for the Advertising platform (Sponsored Products).
Experience
2022 — Now
Sunnyvale, California, United States
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Adtech (Sponsored Products)
• Backend Engineer responsible for building and maintaining data pipelines
• Work with Data at scale to process, store and generate reports that help making business decisions including but not limited to attribution for instore and online transactions
• Built Adtech campaign management system for Sponsored Products platform that helps updating campaign budgets realtime
• Primarily use Airflow as the data orchestration layer and Apache Spark framework for data processing needs that uses Google's dataproc clusters
• Extensively use Google Big query and Azure SQL for reporting and adhoc querying needs
• Have used Google cloud storage & Azure's Blob storage for storage needs
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
Greater Atlanta Area
Media and Entertainment marketplace
• Led the team to design and implement revenue forecasting framework for media & entertainment clients
• Automated an end-end forecasting framework, leveraging AWS Glue, Python, SQL & RESTful APIs that allowed for running the data & forecasting pipeline thereby reducing manual effort by almost 80%
• Collaborated with the team to help design and implement star schema that included a combination of fact & dimension tables
• Genericizing of the framework to support any client data that could be leveraged across variety of
customers seamlessly thereby reducing manual effort of data configuration and setup
• Implemented a RESTful API endpoint that provided clients to medium to consume forecasts
• Designed integration framework by collaborating with client to integrate the forecasts got from the RESTful API response into Sales Force system that was used by the client
DEI Initiative
• Led the technical team to build descriptive analytics platform for Community policing
• Built KPIs to garner insights into Police agency performance in different Organizational & developmental
categories and how it impacts crime rate
• Designed & implemented the platform to benchmark each Police agency to other agencies in the same
geographical region or in certain Organizational & developmental categories of agency performance
• Architected the end-end system that included automating data pipelines for disparate data sources,
perform data mining to gain insights from data through PowerBI Dashboards
• Designed & implemented the data warehouse that incorporated star schema data modeling standard using
Azure MySQL DB
• Designed and led the team in implementing data pipelines that utilized Python, Azure MySQL & Azure
Data factory for updating data based on event driven and scheduled triggers
• Monetized the data by building a data repository that allowed for collecting & re-distributing data via
RESTful API endpoints
2017 — 2020
2017 — 2020
Greater Atlanta Area
• Implemented dynamic pricing framework for a major online ticket resale marketplace utilizing A/B testing infrastructure for rapid ‘sense-and-respond’ that aided 4% revenue uplift. Tools: Python, R, Spark & Hive
• Developed a contextual, value-driven pricing framework for a large B2B food distributor using R
• Developed a suite for Machine learning & Business Insights. Tools: AWS, Tableau and Python
• Developed ensemble machine learning algorithm to predict sales for major automotive manufacturer
• Led the development of pricing framework for entertainment operators. Tools: Python, R, Excel, Tableau
• Created suite to scrape events, hotel prices, weather data etc. from websites intended to provide the team a platform to enrich data for exploratory analysis and model building. Tools: Selenium, Python, MySQL
2016 — 2016
2016 — 2016
Bengaluru Area, India
• Design, Develop and test Media applications mostly Enhancement projects.
• Worked on embedded C and C++ with a reputed infotainment company as our client
• Responsible for Design, Development and Testing (White box & Black Box testing) of Application as per the requirements of the customer
Education
Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Master's degree
The National Institute Of Engineering, Mysore