Kshitiz Jain
Pittsburgh,PA
Summary
Results-driven IT professional with 19+ years of experience specializing in data architecture and management. Innovative approach led to a patented solution that received recognition and multiple awards. Demonstrated strong leadership skills in optimizing data infrastructure and fostering excellence in technology-driven environments.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Data Architect
EPAM Systems
March24 - 08.2024
- Analysis and documentation of business and technical requirements for asset library responsible for storing and managing more than one million assets like images, mocaps, sound files, LLMs etc
- Making those assets available for multiple teams working on different Artificial Intelligence (AI) use cases in company
Data Solution Architect
EPAM Systems
03.2023 - 02.2024
- Development of a cloud-based data platform for chemical business handling more than 2 TB of data received from 8 different sources
- The data will be used by more than 70 oil and gas companies and multiple other business units for analytical purposes and to optimize the oil and gas extraction processes
- Provided support during customer implementations and applied industry best practices.
- Supervised deployments and provided troubleshooting and user support.
- Communicated with partners and clients to update product and implementation status at technical or functional level.
Data Solution Architect
EPAM Systems
04.2022 - 03.2023
- Data platform development based on the Data Mesh principles, creating multiple data products and dashboards for monitoring the business performance at a global, divisional, and business unit level
Delivery Lead and Data Solution Architect
EPAM Systems
07.2019 - 03.2022
- Development of data platform for Asset Management Group of the bank using modern data technologies like Hadoop
- The platform was supposed to serve all the data (internal and external) needs for multiple business teams within the bank
- It was a large program with multiple agile teams, comprised of team members from the bank and multiple vendors at onsite and offshore (India)
Technical project manager
Infosys Ltd
01.2016 - 07.2019
- Technology transformation project to re-write Content Payment Application from legacy Oracle stack to Cloudera Hadoop using Apache Spark, Java, Hive and MicroStrategy
- The application is responsible generating invoice for 150+ vendors every month based on the contracts and business rules
Team Lead and Developer
Infosys Ltd
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Development of algorithm and system for matching metadata for tv contents received from multiple sources and assign a unique id
Team lead
Infosys Ltd
06.2014 - 01.2015
- Development of data ingestion framework, which can be used for ingesting data from RDBMS and Mainframe systems and system for matching customer data from different systems and assign a unique id
Team lead - Product management team
Infosys Ltd
06.2013 - 06.2014
- Defining product road map
Member, Lead
Infosys Ltd
11.2007 - 05.2013
- Training to the fresh engineers and make them ready to contribute effectively to client projects
Lecturer and head of CS & IT departments
Poornima College of Engineering
12.2004 - 10.2007
- Managed team of more than 50 members from computer science and information technology departments
Education
Microsoft Certified -
M.Sc. (Computer Science) -
JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, India
05.2004
MCA ('B' Level) -
DOEACC Society, India
03.2002
Skills
- Modern cloud-based Data platform (Datalake / Lakehouse) solutioning
- Expertise in designing and implementing data models
- Data warehousing, ETL / ELT design, implementation, and maintenance
- Implementing and ensuring adherence to data governance policies and standards
- Experience with cloud platforms (eg, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and implementing data solutions in cloud
- Implementing strategies for data quality assurance and cleansing processes
- Proven record of introducing innovative solutions and staying current with industry trends
- Experience leading and mentoring teams in the development and implementation of data solutions
- Managing technical deliveries for large and medium size projects
- Cloud computing - AWS, Glue, Athena, Microsoft Azure, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL DB, Azure Synapse
- Stream Analytics with Azure Event hub, Azure Stream Analytics, Kafka
- Azure Microsoft Fabric, Data Factory, Synapse, data lake gen2, Data bricks Delta Lake, Azure Devops
- AWS Cloud, S3, Glue, Athena, API Gateway, Airflow, RDS
- Google Cloud (GCP), Bigquery, DataProc, DataFlow
- Infrastructure as code – Cloud formation, Terraform
- Big data processing with Hadoop, Map Reduce, Spark, Hive, Impala, Oozie, Sqoop
- Data Modelling, RDBMS, and SQL
- Java, Scala, Python and Shell Scripting
- Iceberg, delta, Avro, parquet, ORC file formats
- NoSQL databases like HBase, DynamoDB
- Oracle, Snowflake, Informatica, PostgreSQL
- Structured Query Language
- ETL development
- Master Data Management
- API Development
- Business intelligence tools
- NoSQL Databases
- Data Mining
- Data warehousing expertise
- Performance Tuning
- Data Warehousing
- System Architecture Design
- Business Intelligence
- Database Design
- Data Analytics
- Data Quality Management
- SQL
- Information modeling
- Data Governance
- Data profiling
- Data Migration
- Big Data Management
- Data Modeling
- Data Security
- Machine Learning
- Report Generation
Accomplishments
- US patent: US2013/0219374 A1 : "System and method for automated and objective assessment of programming language code"
- Invited as a judge for esteemed international Globee awards
- EPAM Impact 2020 Award for delivering outstanding results in creating value for clients
- EPAM Delivery excellence award for extraordinary technical contribution and outstanding performance
- Authored an engineering book "Relational Database Management Systems"
- Infosys Individual and Team Excellence Awards - Outstanding contribution in achieving systematic change
- Globee Award – Information Technology 2024 Winner for Though Leadership Category
- Best project award for FLYPP SMS developer contest (for Aircel)
Affiliations
- IEEE Senior member
- ACM Professional member
Articles
- Data Lineage in Modern Data Engineering: https://dzone.com/articles/data-lineage-in-modern-data-engineering
- From Chaos to Control: Nurturing a Culture of Data Governance: https://dzone.com/articles/from-chaos-to-control-nurturing-a-culture-of-data
- Beyond Data Silos: Data Mesh, Game Changer for Enterprises: https://dzone.com/articles/beyond-data-silos-data-mesh-game-changer-for-enter
- Building a Data-Driven Culture: Empowering Organizations with Business Intelligence: https://www.ijcttjournal.org/archives/ijctt-v72i2p109
Achievements
US patent: US2013/0219374 A1 : “System and method for automated and objective assessment of programming language code· Invited as a judge for esteemed international Globee awards
EPAM Impact 2020 Award for delivering outstanding results in creating value for client· EPAM Delivery excellence award for extraordinary technical contribution and outstanding performance
Authored an engineering book “Relational Database Management Systems"
Infosys Individual and Team Excellence Awards - Outstanding contribution in achieving systematic change
Globee Award – Information Technology 2024 Winner for Though Leadership Category
Best project award for FLYPP SMS developer contest (for Aircel)
Timeline
Data Solution Architect
EPAM Systems
03.2023 - 02.2024
Data Solution Architect
EPAM Systems
04.2022 - 03.2023
Delivery Lead and Data Solution Architect
EPAM Systems
07.2019 - 03.2022
Technical project manager
Infosys Ltd
01.2016 - 07.2019
Team Lead and Developer
Infosys Ltd
01.2015 - 01.2016
Team lead
Infosys Ltd
06.2014 - 01.2015
Team lead - Product management team
Infosys Ltd
06.2013 - 06.2014
Member, Lead
Infosys Ltd
11.2007 - 05.2013
Lecturer and head of CS & IT departments
Poornima College of Engineering
12.2004 - 10.2007
Sr. Data Architect
EPAM Systems
March24 - 08.2024
Microsoft Certified -
M.Sc. (Computer Science) -
JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, India
MCA ('B' Level) -
DOEACC Society, India
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