CHARAN VUDA

• Cultivated partnerships between engineering, product, DS and UX personnel to create holistically designed products in enterprise engineering. This helped to build roadmaps for each partnering team effectively before beginning of the execution cycle
• Created an operational model and onboarded the team on to agile framework thereby gaining visibility into redundant tasks across teams and optimising overall engineering utilization by 12%
• Created virtual teams to work on better engineering initiatives and improved overall health of system (storage capacity, compute capacity, oncall health, system uptime) by 23%
• Mentored senior engineers and first level managers by coaching, leading performance reviews and offering constructive feedback
• Led efforts in establishing standards, determining specifications and creating Service and Operational Level Agreements (SLA) and (OLA).

• Managed team of 12 onsite and 25 offshore engineers and analysts overseeing multi-national rollout of people datalake
• Rolled out multi cloud based delta lake (Azure and GCP) to meet the norms of international markets (GDPR, CCPA etc) and successfully decommissioned legacy Teradata warehouse
• Drove strategic planning of Technology Business Model (TBM) which translates technology investments to business value gaining insights into multi billion dollar technology spend
• Key contributor in architectural decisions driving discussions towards scalability and resilience
• Established Hub and spoke framework to enable International BI teams and increased overall analytical coefficient
• Improved CI/CD for the team and achieved the goal of one click deployment, adhering to all release management policies
• Worked with multiple vendor partners to speed up delivery in staff augmentation model
• Groomed next level leaders in the team and coached ICs to get into management roles

• Led a team of 8 engineers and analysts to roll out worlds largest employee datalake
• Implementation partner for talent recommendation engine which processes 10M+ applicants every year
• Created Data as a Service for all BI / Data Science projects which uses on prem Hadoop environment
• Developed Employee 360 platform for US and also rolled it at global scale (10+ countries and acquisitions)
• Architected Azure based Bigdata solution for international markets and created a common consumption layer
• Implemented Data governance processes and tools to ensure the quality of data and standardize the KPIs
• Ensured data security at rest and in motion (dealing with PII data)
• Conducted several Hackathons and built prototypes to business stakeholders and demonstrate team capabilities

• Created a Teradata based Data warehouse for all reporting needs
• Led an effort to cleanup / consolidate 500+ Tableau reports into one stop shop of People Metrics app
• Worked with several business stakeholders to understand the pain points and strategized a data solution
• Evaluated various data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI, ThoughtSpot, Micro Strategy in terms of capabilities and licensing costs
• Created cheat sheet for the teams, to find the best fit based on their needs
• Worked on POCs to check the feasibility of using Hadoop data lakes for People Analytics use case

• Played key role in winning client worth $60M annually
• Managed a team of 12 engineers to ensure successful transition of development, maintenance, and support of IT applications from previous vendor to Infosys
• Ramped up the offshore development center by working with several stakeholders in networking, infrastructure and engineering leaders
• Worked on High level and detailed level designs, code reviews and implementation
• Implemented automated incident monitoring system using Tableau which helped in understanding cost per incident metrics

• Designed, developed and maintained applications in People Technology and Supply Chain
• SME in HR domain with experience of working in all of Core HR, Payroll, Time & Attendance, Benefits, Compensations etc
• Led Walmart people technology mainframe team for ~5 years by collaborating with several stakeholders, building integrations and ensuring ontime delivery of 2M+ W2s every year
• Built ETL pipelines for implementation of GRS (Global Replenishment System) of Walmart and enabled integration of JDA to improve the sourcing and networking, along with truck load optimizations

Tools / Technologies used : DataStage, Mainframe, DB2, Teradata

Products : PeopleSoft, Lawson, Workbrain, Infor