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Karthiga Priya Chandran

Dallas,TX

Summary

Seasoned Database Architect with a proven track record at companies like Google and Amazon Web Services. Specializes in cloud database solutions, demonstrating expertise in AWS services and Google Cloud products. Excels in technical guidance, architectural design, migration, and innovative data pipeline construction. Known for strong leadership in mentoring and a keen ability to optimize database performance and cost efficiency.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Customer Engineer

Google
Dallas, TX
07.2024 - Current
  • Provide technical guidance to customers to migrate and adopt Google Cloud database solutions including relational databases like Cloud SQL, AlloyDB and NoSQL databases like Bigtable, Firestore and Memorystore.
  • Design and architect scalable, secure, and optimized data solutions tailored to customer needs, leveraging Google Cloud database technologies.
  • Conduct demos, technical workshops, and proof-of-concept (PoC) projects to showcase Google Cloud database’s capabilities and drive customer engagement.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management and engineering, to ensure seamless deployment and alignment with customer goals.
  • Assist in performance tuning and optimization to resolve complex data management challenges, acting as a trusted advisor for best practices in cloud data infrastructure.

Data Architect, NoSQL II

Amazon Web Services
Dallas, TX
07.2021 - 06.2023
  • Expertise in evaluating, planning, and building migrations to Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Keyspaces, Amazon Elasticsearch, and other NoSQL solutions.
  • Provide architectural guidance for the desired NoSQL Database schemas, making recommendations to optimize performance and cost.
  • Build innovative and complex data pipelines in transforming and moving data from one database to another in a variety of distributed computing, enterprise environments.
  • Work with customer stakeholders, such as Director, VP, etc. Along with engineers, to make critical decisions in building their database and other cloud-based components around it.
  • Actively involve in creating artifacts, both internal and public-facing, on reusable contents; and pursue leadership roles, such as mentoring and hiring.

Cloud Support Engineer II

Amazon Web Services
Dallas, TX
03.2018 - 06.2021
  • Expertise in Amazon DynamoDB service in assisting customers with NoSQL schema design patterns, performance tuning, and environment setup, integrating other features like DAX, Lambda, DynamoDB Streams, and Kinesis Streams.
  • Experience in ETL technology using AWS Glue service that crawls the data to build Glue data catalog, to prepare, transform, and inject data to the destination.
  • Expertise in Amazon RDS service that includes various relational database engines like MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, MariaDB, and Aurora.
  • Troubleshooting from a networking perspective, including but not limited to TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, and other networking concepts, with respect to AWS service VPC.
  • Active participant in leadership roles, such as mentoring, hiring, and providing training for technical and non-technical topics.

Software / DB Developer

Catapult Health
Dallas, TX
01.2016 - 04.2017
  • Developing components in ReactJS and Node.js to fix issues with the internal Patient-Nurse consultation monitoring dashboard.
  • Developing/modifying the UI of the Patient-Nurse consultation monitoring dashboard using Node.js, React.js, HTML5, and Bootstrap.
  • Lead Developer for transforming existing reports using MySQL and PL/SQL from SSRS and SSIS to highly efficient and web-based Jasper Server.
  • Data modeling and database architecture designing as a team for nextGen billing engine.
  • Developing queries and stored procedures for the interaction of the billing engine and database.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Texas, Arlington
12.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Anna University, Chennai
07.2012

Skills

  • AWS services
  • Google Cloud products
  • DynamoDB / Keyspace
  • Python, Java, PHP, HTML, SQL
  • Data Analytics tool
  • Database migration

Certification

  • AWS Certified Database - Specialty
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
  • AWS Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Amazon DynamoDB service

Timeline

Customer Engineer

Google
07.2024 - Current

Data Architect, NoSQL II

Amazon Web Services
07.2021 - 06.2023

Cloud Support Engineer II

Amazon Web Services
03.2018 - 06.2021

Software / DB Developer

Catapult Health
01.2016 - 04.2017

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Texas, Arlington

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Anna University, Chennai
Karthiga Priya Chandran