Akin Pratt

Dynamic Principal Solution Architect with extensive experience at Cognizant Technology Solutions, specializing in architecting scalable cloud-based data solutions. Proven expertise in AWS and Azure services, combined with strong communication skills, has driven successful client engagements and enhanced data accessibility, significantly improving project outcomes. Passionate about mentoring teams and fostering innovation.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Databricks Certified Data Engineer
• Databricks Lakehouse Fundamentals
• Data Engineering with Databricks
• Databricks Platform Architect
• SnowPro Core Certification
• Teradata Master
• Snowflake Technical Sales Pro

• All, Datalake house platform comparison, Solution Architect, Created a datalake house feature functionality platform comparison between Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Iceberg & Dremio. Assessed the performance of each platform when used as a base for an analytics dashboard. Evaluated each platform along the following lines: Ease of use/setup, Data load/acquisition, Data access, Query performance. Created discussion deck to use with potential customers., Snowflake, Databricks, Dremio, AWS, Azure
• Healthcare, Healthcare Claims Data Extract Portal, Architect, Designed data pipeline to extract healthcare claims data from MongoDB using streams and automatically loading and processing data into extract-ready datasets. Designed security policies and processes to enable secure data sharing. Provided guidance to developers in implementing solutions., MongoDb, ADF, Databricks, Pyspark
• Healthcare, Data Sharing Platform, Architect, Designed multi-tenant data sharing platform on Snowflake to enable the clients’ customers access to their claims data in real time. Designed row-based access policies and processes to enable multi-tenant data sharing. Provided guidance to developers in implementing solutions., Snowflake Data Sharing
• Banking & Finance, Snowflake/AWS Data Lake, Architect, Designed data lake architecture based on data in AWS Iceberg tables. Developed Integration of Snowflake with AWS Iceberg tables through Glue Catalog. Conducted benchmark test to find performance difference between native snowflake iceberg tables and external iceberg tables. Built and tested POC. Provided guidance to developers in implementing solutions., AWS Athena, AWS Glue, Snowflake Iceberg tables
• Retail, Sales Dashboard, Data Architect, Design and build of semantic layer to power sales dashboard covering close to two hundred KPI’s. Designed ETL process to bring general ledger data from SAP and sales data from sales database on Oracle into Snowflake. Designed semantic layer for Power BI dashboards both on Snowflake & AAS. Implemented connection between Azure Analysis Services and Snowflake to allow data seamlessly flow into AAS for reporting., Azure Blob, Azure Data factory, Azure Analysis Server, Power BI
• Mortgage, Vertica to Snowflake Migration, Data Architect, Designed migration process to move 150Tb from on prem Vertica database to Snowflake. Developed multi-threaded migration code in python/shell scripting. Design Snowflake database structures and access controls., Vertica, Snowflake, Amazon AWS, EC2, S3, Python, Unix Shell
• Hi-Tech, ETL Modernization, Data Architect, Designed process to convert existing data transformation processes from Informatica Power Center to DBT loading data into Snowflake. Process to scan INFA workflows and extract SQL transformations. Build end to end data transformation pipeline using DBT to models and SQL., Snowflake, Amazon AWS S3, DBT, Git
• Software Development, Project Management SaaS, Data Architect, Designed back-end storage to support application. Created data store to support microservices application architecture. Configured data store for multi-tenancy, high availability, and high throughput. Designed process to ingest data in real-time from application data store into analytics platform on Snowflake., AWS, Amazon DynamoDB, DynamoDB Streams, S3, Snowflake, Snowflake Streams
• Insurance, HR Datamart Implementation, Solution Architect, Design data ingestion architecture on AWS / Talend. Designed and managed deployment of ELT process on Talend. Developed data mart model deployed on Snowflake. Designed and implemented snowflake security and access controls., Linux, SQL, Python, AWS CLI, Talend, Snowflake

• Lead delivery teams as a technical leader – SME
• Work with sales teams as technical SME to deliver solutions and RFP’s
• Work with multiple business units within the company to deliver well-crafted solutions
• Lead complex client engagement delivery.
• Plan and lead workshops to understand the current landscape, requirements, and constraints, and map to the latest technology products and platforms to develop future architecture.
• Design and lead the development of data assets as part of the delivery.
• Assist in creating implementation roadmaps from scope and resource perspectives.
• Articulate complex architectures for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Learn new technologies and platforms quickly and keep experience relevant to clients’ needs.
• Lead teams based on global locations in multiple time zones.
• Develop thought leadership material to demonstrate authority on enterprise architecture topics