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Nitin Gaonkar

Nitin Gaonkar

Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Santa Clara,CA

Summary

Seasoned Data & Analytics leader with over 17 years of experience specializing in developing and executing innovative data strategies to drive business growth. Skilled in building and leading high-performance teams to deliver enterprise-scale data solutions. Demonstrated success in fostering cross-functional collaborations to achieve data-driven decision making and optimize organizational performance

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Chegg
Santa Clara, CA
10.2018 - Current
  • Led Chegg's Data Engineering and Data Platform team.
  • Built Chegg's core data engineering team from the ground up
  • Led the team to build the NextGen Data platform.
  • Fostered strong partnerships with Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to ensure alignment with data goals
  • Mentored engineers to enhance skills.
  • Collaborated with diverse internal stakeholders to navigate competing priorities and define the team's roadmap.
  • Designed a data-driven platform for Chegg's broad audience

Lead Data Engineer

Shutterfly
Redwood City, CA
09.2014 - 10.2018
  • Led projects to create, implement, and launch data warehouse solutions in the sales and finance sectors
  • Designed and implemented Shutterfly's cloud-based data warehouse using AWS services such as Redshift, EMR, Data Pipeline, Athena, and S3
  • Optimized AWS infrastructure provisioning with the development of DWH stacks.
  • Played a pivotal role in implementing the MPP system (Teradata) at Shutterfly. Single-handedly led the deployment of the enterprise-level automation tool, Automic, at Shutterfly.

Senior Data Engineer

Kaiser Permanente
Pleasanton, CA
09.2013 - 06.2014
  • Worked as a Senior Data Engineer and was responsible for designing and building a fraud detection system for Kaiser to identify fraud for members and physicians.

Data Engineer

Sony Electronics
San Diego, CA
01.2011 - 06.2013
  • As a data engineer, I built sales and inventory data marts for Sony to track their daily sales for B2C and B2B business.

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
Bengaluru, karnataka
12.2007 - 12.2010
  • Designed and built data-centric software applications.

Education

Master of Science - Predictive Analytics

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

Bachelor of Science - Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University
India

Skills

  • Data Platform - Lakehouse, Databricks, AWS, Spark, Airflow,Amplitude, Data streaming platforms
  • Data Engineering - Data modeling, Data processing
  • Data Analytics & BI
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Programming Languages - Python, SQL
  • Data Strategy
  • Team management

Certification

  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
  • Academy Accreditation - Generative AI Fundamentals
  • Astronomer Certification for Apache Airflow Fundamentals
  • Scrum Product Owner
  • Data Science and Business Analysis

Timeline

Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Chegg
10.2018 - Current

Lead Data Engineer

Shutterfly
09.2014 - 10.2018

Senior Data Engineer

Kaiser Permanente
09.2013 - 06.2014

Data Engineer

Sony Electronics
01.2011 - 06.2013

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
12.2007 - 12.2010

Master of Science - Predictive Analytics

Northwestern University

Bachelor of Science - Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University

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