Divya Panikassery

Partnered with clients to translate strategic objectives into actionable roadmaps, ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and performance standards.
Drove business development initiatives by shaping proposals and presenting solutions to stakeholders, contributing to multi-million-dollar pipeline growth.
Mentored and coached architects and analysts, delivering internal training sessions on data engineering, cloud migration, and architecture best practices.

Client Engagements

Fidelity Investments (Jan 2019-Dec 2024) - Role: Senior Software Engineer

The project was to build a modern platform for customer accounts management, investment portfolio construction, and trading.

• Designed and implemented data engineering solutions for the microservices-based distributed architecture supporting customer data, financial securities, investment models, alpha, risk models, cash data, trade reconciliation, investment-manager assignment, and Investment outcome forecasting.
• Designed and implemented Oracle database components (tables, views, partitions, stored procedures, packages, schemas, access controls) and defined storage and archival strategies.
• Collaborated with product owners to refine project requirements and strategically define new software products, effectively addressing both current and future business objectives.
• Conducted performance analysis, tuning, and scalability enhancements for database and applications
• Implemented enhancements in Java middle tier, Created CI/CD pipelines, Autosys jobs and custom python scripts. Provided production support.
• Designed and implemented data integration and transformation processes to move structured and semi-structured(JSON) datasets from Oracle and DynamoDB into Snowflake data warehouse.
• Built ETL pipelines, data models, reporting stores, warehouses, databases, schemas, and access controls in Snowflake to support analytics.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts (Mar 2010 - Jan 2019) - Role: Solution Architect

• Led end-to-end delivery of projects for two application teams and spearheaded successful migrations of applications and databases to AWS Cloud.
• Architected and led the development of next-generation platform to replace legacy systems for the client’s property management and reservation systems.
• Collaborated with stakeholders, created project roadmaps & estimates, oversaw resource allocation, managed application backlogs, planned production releases, and utilized Agile methodologies for story creation and prioritization.
• Designed and implemented scalable data engineering solutions, including data models, storage strategies, access control, security policies, stored procedures, and packages.
• Designed and developed applications using Java and Hibernate.
• Provided technical and functional guidance to development, QA and production support

• Developed, maintained and supported interface applications for the company's property management system