# Partha Padmanabhan > Data Engineering Leader, Program Chair, Educator , Speaker Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/parthapadmanabhan Cash is king, but data is a very close second. Enabling business growth and success through information and knowledge is my core competency. Such knowledge is built in transforming raw data from different sources and making it available in a timely manner; this makes an organization build its competitive edge over others. I have been passionately doing so with over 20 years of hands on experience in using Oracle, Teradata, Big Data, HANA, Snowflake, Data Visualization & Data Virtualization in a progressive manner while implementing best data engineering and management practices. I also believe in giving back to my community by teaching at UC Santa Cruz's Silicon Valley Extension for the past 10 years. I teach data visualization, data modeling, business intelligence, and data analytics using R and Python. Specialties: Data Management & Governance, Data Strategy & Vision, Data Architecture and Modeling, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Program/Project Management, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Engineering Best Practices, Teradata & Snowflake, R, Python, Oracle, Tableau, PowerBI, Hadoop, Map Reduce. US Citizen authorized to work for any employer. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ New Relic Jan 2025 – Present ### Data Engineering Lead @ New Relic Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Program Chair- Data Science & Data Analytics @ UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Jan 2020 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States ♣ Program Chair for Data Science and Data Analytics certificate program. ♣ Instructor for Data visualization using Tableau since 2016. ♣ Instructor for Data Analytics using R since 2020 ♣ Instructor for Data Modeling since 2013 https://www.ucsc-extension.edu/about/instructors/parthasarathy-m-padmanabhan/ ### Principal Architect(Data Analytics) @ Neiman Marcus Group Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 ### Lead- Data Architecture @ Cisco Systems Jan 2008 – Jan 2020 ♣ Earned the honor of winning the title “Trusted Advisor” by peers and stakeholders. ♣ Leading the Data Governance activities in defining standards, policies to ensure data quality& data integrity. ♣ As a Product Owner for Enterprise Agreements, collaborated with internal Cisco’s Sales and Engineering Teams and managed a team of business analysts. ♣ Architected & implemented the end-to-end migration of Customer Care Business Data Mart from Oracle to Hadoop Big Data. +Achieved operational efficiency in loading data from 14 hours to minutes in the new platform. +Used Sqoop, Apache Spark, modeling the optimized structures in Hadoop (MapR Distribution) to ensure quality and obtained business certification for both initial and incremental data migration. ♣ Worked with Data Retention Management Team to optimize current and historic data and reduced the CPU cycle time by 5% as well as memory/space savings without compromising data integrity or retention requirements. ♣ Architected the Purge & Archive of data from Enterprise Data Warehouse Teradata to Hadoop Big Data Ecosystem. +Consolidated the Data consumption via Data Virtualization Platform in a transparent manner from different sources thereby eliminating the need for pulling and storing the data in multiple places. +Drastically reduced the SLA from 5 days to zero wait time online. ♣ Played a critical role in Migrating Cisco’s Enterprise Data Warehouse from Oracle to Teradata. Implemented an innovative strategy to reduce the implementation time for faster time to market. ♣ Led the data modeling team with line management responsibilities and currently manages the team of 10 technical analysts. ♣ Leading the Architecture Engagement Forum to provide solution architecture to internal clients. ♣ Representing as an Enterprise Security Architect to define and enforce Security Architecture Framework to ensure data security and confidentiality. ### Data Architect @ MARUTHI CONSULTING, INC. Jan 2002 – Jan 2008 | San Francisco Bay Area ♣ Migrated and redesigned Delta Dental Insurance’s Enterprise Data Warehouse system from SQL Server to Oracle. +Created ETL design to extract data from disparate sources. +Designed and implemented a Fraud & Abuse Management system to profile Service Providers. +Built the Logical Data Modeling & Physical Database design. +Delivered ETL workflows using Business Objects Data Integrator (BODI). ♣ Created an online Invoice delivery as part of Document Management system. ♣ Created an enterprise class data driven “rules-based framework” for an online Claims Adjudication System. ### Data Architect @ JAYAMARUTHI SOFTWARE SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED Jan 1998 – Jan 2002 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India ♣ Worked in offshore development center of Maruthi Consulting as Project Lead for developing the applications for Delta Dental of California. ♣ Built a Client Management System, Contract Management System, Eligibility Administration System and Claims Administration System. ♣ Involved in the architecture/application development that have been developed using Visual Basic 6.0 with the backend as SQL Server 7.0 using N-Tier architecture with MTS and web applications such as Provider Administration System, Web Eligibility System using IIS & MTS. ♣ Gathered the requirements, designed, and developed the applications for the clients, managed the team and certified the applications with the Quality Assurance Team. ### Officer - EDP @ Sanmar Engineering Corporation Jan 1991 – Jan 1998 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Managed IT services for the organization that consists 5 manufacturing groups. Developing in-house programs, running and maintaining payroll systems, deploy changes to the manufacturing modules. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Accountancy & Commerce University of Madras ### MBA in E-Commerce CSM Institute of Graduate Studies ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/partha-padmanabhan-71476a --- Source: https://flows.cv/parthapadmanabhan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/parthapadmanabhan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12