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Divya Almond

Lincoln,NE

Summary

Versatile technology professional specializing in Cloud Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, and DataOps. Proven track record in managing global teams and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions. Strong ability to drive projects from conception to completion, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Manager, Enterprise Integrations

ABB Optical Distributor Group
Coral Springs, FL
05.2024 - Current
  • Coordinated with internal departments to ensure successful execution of projects according to timeline and budget constraints.
  • Directed cross-functional teams in developing innovative solutions to complex problems.
  • Developed custom solutions for customers based on their individual business objectives.
  • Implemented feedback loops from customers into product development processes.
  • Onboarded 5 customers in a span of a year, including 2 huge customers, with an integration spanning 2,000+ stores across the country.

AWS Architect

ABB Optical Distributor Group
Coral Springs, FL
01.2023 - 05.2024
  • Provided guidance on best practices related to architecture design, deployment automation, scalability and reliability improvements.
  • Design, develop, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions.
  • Consolidated multiple AWS accounts into a single organizational structure using AWS Organizations.
  • Defined and applied Service Control Policies to enforce security and compliance across accounts and Organizational Units.
  • Managed consolidated billing, tracked costs using tools like AWS Cost Explorer, and identified opportunities for cost savings through RIs and Savings Plans, leading to huge savings for the organization.

Data Engineering Manager

Olive AI
06.2021 - 01.2023
  • Mentor and grow team by identifying required skills, managing their performance and helping them grow to their fullest potential
  • Define processes needed to achieve operational excellence including project management and system reliability
  • Contributed to architecture and design for building event driven pipelines with streaming data on AWS
  • Worked on end to end App deployment for Airflow and Alation including infrastructure, SSO configuration and integration of the app with data sources within the company
  • Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals
  • Evaluated existing procedures and made proactive adjustments to meet changing demands

Data Engineering Team Lead

Olive AI
06.2021 - 08.2021
  • Drive roadmap and technical vision for team and collaborate with product teams to deliver value
  • Design, architect and solution for big data requirements including building data pipelines, data validation and data transformation
  • Worked on a huge data migration project to migrate data between AWS Accounts and Azure-AWS
  • Interviewed, hired and trained employees, completed performance reviews and offering constructive feedback
  • Analyze applications and make necessary changes to improve performance
  • Setup centralized database access management capability using StrongDM

DataOps Engineer

Olive AI
04.2021 - 08.2021
  • Build data pipelines to migrate and transform data from S3 to Redshift using Glue and Airflow
  • Created and built several reusable modules to automate database deployments driven by CI/CD Pipelines resulting in efficient and robust pipelines
  • Design and implement solutions to support data lake
  • Setup alerting and monitoring for data stack applications
  • Provisioned database and storage services on AWS using Terraform

DataOps Engineer

Sandhills Global
01.2021 - 04.2021
  • Automate and provision environment build using Docker, Jenkins and Azure DevOps
  • Support Data Science environments including standards, SCM Integration and upgrade as needed
  • Focus on building highly available environments using Containers for Data Science users
  • Work on integration between DataOps environments and other applications
  • Work on building ingestion and consumption pipeline from ELK stack to other applications
  • Lead the research and development of new features in Data Science and Data Analytics space

Sr. Data Engineer

Ameritas
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Experience using CloudFormation and Ansible to deploy Infrastructure as Code
  • Worked on integrating AWS infrastructure with Snowflake (Cloud Warehouse)
  • Responsible for design, implementation and support of AWS infrastructure
  • Working knowledge of implementing CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience on using boto3 to create data pipelines to bring in data to AWS
  • Setup monitoring and logging on AWS using CloudWatch events and integrating it with ES
  • Knowledge in being able to design a highly available and disaster resilient architecture
  • Actively manage and monitor AWS Services such as RDS, EC2, S3, Dynamo DB and Lambda

Middleware Administrator

Ameritas
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Provide day-to-day administrative support on BI, Data Science and Data Governance tools
  • Build data pipelines to migrate data from on-premises to AWS
  • Contributed to the development of Raw, Stage and Curated layers for the Data Lake
  • Work on development of solutions to automate AWS Infrastructure delivery pipeline
  • Build, implement and manage custom DataOps frameworks and tools
  • Setup security across all products and resolve issues and provide administrative support
  • Build and model Data Modules and Packages based on requirements from end-users
  • Resolve tickets related to all the analytical platforms and provide administrative support

Data Administrator

Ameritas
01.2017 - 01.2018
  • Provide administrative support on AWS platform and stand-up AWS services on need basis
  • Create integration points between AWS and on-premise systems
  • Complete new product Installations and apply fix packs as needed
  • Administer and maintain BI, Data Science and Data Governance tools
  • Setup security across all products and manage content
  • Provide 24*7 administrative support across all platforms
  • Developed scripts and processes for data integration and maintenance

Education

MS - Management Information Systems

University of Nebraska At Omaha
Omaha, NE

Skills

  • Database systems: RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift
  • Version Control Tools: Bitbucket, Gitlab, Azure DevOps
  • Analytics and Reporting Tools: Cognos Analytics, Tableau, PowerBI, Apache Superset
  • Cloud Experience: AWS (Intermediate - Advanced), Azure (Beginner)
  • Data Science Tools: SPSS Modeler, Dataiku
  • Data Governance Tools: Information Governance Catalog, Collibra, Alation
  • AWS Services: EC2, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, Kinesis, IAM, Organizations etc
  • Cloud warehouse: Snowflake
  • Scripting Languages: JavaScript, Python
  • Server Administration: Windows and Linux
  • Automation Tools: Ansible, Jenkins
  • ETL Tools: DataStage Director, Administrator, Designer, Airflow

Certification

  • AWS Data & Analytics Speciality

  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate

  • AWS Cloud Practioner

Timeline

Sr. Manager, Enterprise Integrations

ABB Optical Distributor Group
05.2024 - Current

AWS Architect

ABB Optical Distributor Group
01.2023 - 05.2024

Data Engineering Manager

Olive AI
06.2021 - 01.2023

Data Engineering Team Lead

Olive AI
06.2021 - 08.2021

DataOps Engineer

Olive AI
04.2021 - 08.2021

DataOps Engineer

Sandhills Global
01.2021 - 04.2021

Sr. Data Engineer

Ameritas
01.2019 - 01.2021

Middleware Administrator

Ameritas
01.2018 - 01.2019

Data Administrator

Ameritas
01.2017 - 01.2018

MS - Management Information Systems

University of Nebraska At Omaha

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