Narayanan Sukumaran
Belmont,CA
Summary
Senior Data Engineer with 13+ years in building data intensive applications tackling challenging architectural and scalability problems. Experienced in building and maintaining data lakes to increase data processing efficiency, implementing data security and compliance measures, design and implementation of real-time data pipelines for improved business-critical decision making. Consistently strive to ensure the highest standards of accuracy and efficiency . Committed to staying current with industry trends and determined to drive corporate objectives through data-driven outcomes
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Associate
CTS (Cognizant Technology Solutions)
01.2014 - Current
- Work experiences are listed below in detail.
Senior Data Engineer
Large Life Science customer
Foster City, CA
12.2022 - Current
- Handled all aspects of onsite project activities including meeting scheduling, agenda development, and material preparation.
- Interfaced directly with clients throughout the entire life cycle of the project in order to ensure satisfaction.
- Coordinated resources among different teams working together to complete an individual project.
- Harmonized disparate data sources into a single integrated source utilizing ETL procedures.
- Designed and deployed robust data pipelines to efficiently handle the ingestion and processing of voluminous datasets.
- Increased efficiency of queries by optimizing them, resulting in improved query performance and reduced server load.
Data Engineer and Offshore Lead
Life Sciences R & D customer
07.2019 - 11.2022
- As part of this engagement, Narayanan is a data engineer and offshore lead enabling business to build KPI's and metrics
- This further aid in identifying the risks, bottlenecks upfront and improving efficiencies in the overall R & D process
- The project also involves building of a data warehouse in AWS cloud where Narayanan also takes the responsibility of Redshift admin, ETL and integration developer for the engagement.
AWS Developer and Data Migrator
Large Health Care Customer
04.2019 - 06.2019
- As part of Database Migration team, Narayanan analyzed Teradata EDW and performed a detailed assessment of DB objects, applications interacting with EDW, backup and retention, DR strategies etc
- To understand different aspects and impacts to migrate to AWS Redshift
- The work included providing customer with a detailed assessment report on all aspects to consider during migration, impacts and required remediation, and recommendations.
AWS Developer, SME
Large Life Science Customer
09.2018 - 03.2019
- With the role of senior migration developer and Data analyst, Narayanan was responsible in the digital platform migration of the customer from Netezza Data warehouse to AWS Redshift
- The work involved capacity planning, solution approach, migration of data, data testing and DR strategies while considering AWS redshift as a new platform
- The project was a resounding success and well received by both Cognizant and customer senior management.
AWS Data Engineer - Techno Functional SME
Large Media Customer
05.2024 - 08.2024
- As a senior developer, Narayanan was responsible to implement the Digital Transformation Program for the customer by bringing up an entirely new data repository and design upstream and downstream interfaces, using AWS Redshift and other AWS stack like SNS, Data pipeline, EC2
- Additionally, handled roles of data migrator pulling data from various regions to Redshift
- He played a key role in designing and implementing GDPR guidelines in integrating Redshift Data Repository with the campaign management and marketing automation tool - Oracle Eloqua
- Narayan also worked as SME fine-tuning the Redshift repository by working along with customer data architects.
IT Analyst
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)
01.2010 - 12.2014
- Worked with various high value customers on below areas:
- Streamlined acquisition of reporting requirements and specifications to disseminate across multiple business lines and IT support teams.
- Monitored system performance, identified bottlenecks and optimized the same.
- Provided training to end-users on how to use newly deployed systems effectively.
- Monitored system performance metrics to identify potential issues or areas of improvement.
Education
B.E - Electronics and Communication Engineering -
Skills
- Python
- Spark
- Hive
- Hadoop
- ETL
- SQL
- Team Leadership
- Data Migration
- ETL - Matillion, Airflow, Workato
- Data Warehousing
- Problem-Solving
- AWS ( Ec2,EMR,SNS,Lambda,Redshift,Athena,S3)
Certification
- AWS Certified Data Analytics Speciality, 2022
- AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate 2021
- SnowPro Core Certification, 2021
- Workato Automation Pro I & II, 2020
Accomplishments
Digital Champion Award from Cognizant - 2019
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Professional
Malayalam
Full Professional
Tamil
Limited
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
AWS Data Engineer - Techno Functional SME
Large Media Customer
05.2024 - 08.2024
Senior Data Engineer
Large Life Science customer
12.2022 - Current
Data Engineer and Offshore Lead
Life Sciences R & D customer
07.2019 - 11.2022
AWS Developer and Data Migrator
Large Health Care Customer
04.2019 - 06.2019
AWS Developer, SME
Large Life Science Customer
09.2018 - 03.2019
Senior Associate
CTS (Cognizant Technology Solutions)
01.2014 - Current
IT Analyst
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)
01.2010 - 12.2014
B.E - Electronics and Communication Engineering -
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