Tarakanath Paipuru
Senior Data Engineering Manager
Atlanta,GA
There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
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Summary
Proactive engineering manager with profound expertise in constructing benchmarking data analytics products, steering cross-functional teams, and managing stakeholder expectations. Demonstrated prowess in code development life cycle, project management and risk management concerning data analytics, data exchange, storage, and utilization. Experienced in creating scalable data ingestion, transformation, and presentation layers. Skilled at strategic partnerships, roadmap delivery, team management, and agile methodologies. Well versed in AWS, Azure cloud providers with data engineering and data quality in batch and event streaming technologies and adept at client presentations and advisory roles.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates
Work History
Senior Data Engineering Manager
McKinsey And Company
Atlanta, United States
10.2014 - Current
- Delivered engineering quarterly business reviews with >80% completion rate (road map of product features and improvements) aligning with multiple stake holders inline with business strategy of developing new data products and improving automation, usability and data quality of existing data products
- Interfaced with clients to set up data ingestion protocols, advised in optimizing their pipelines and implemented best practices around data exchange through various tools to improve data ingestion automation by over 30%
- Led multiple initiatives to create development best practices documentation, new hire documentation, trainings, onboarding for sustainability of engineering teams
- Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities through daily check-ins, deep dives, prioritization, tracking metrics of sprint completion and burn down charts for team members.
- Managed diverse group of Data, SRE, and Software engineering teams, overseeing product feature builds and legacy migrations.
- Onboarded new employees with training and new hire documentation.
- Led multiple high value projects like on-prem to cloud migrations, benchmark data product builds, client engagements
- Created yearly costs around infrastructure for technology and presented in budget meetings
- Created capabilities to implement data management plan to handle confidential data from clients
- Played major role in implementing Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, grooming, estimations, retrospectives, and product releases
- Established strategic partnerships with internal teams like OFT, Firm Legal, Firm Support,AWS,Firm Security to enhance compliance, scalability, robustness, and talent availability
- Developed Data Ops strategy for benchmarking data products and successfully led to its execution increasing digital transformation adherence of products by over 70%
- Helped to build team to go from 3 data engineers to 12 data engineers and streamlined recruiting process
- Mentoring and year end evaluation of engineers
- Previously worked in data engineer, senior data engineer and staff data engineer roles in data pipeline development, code reviews, data quality, data visualizations, proof of concepts for evaluation of new tools
Senior Associate Engineer
Cognizant Technologies
Seattle, WA
11.2012 - 10.2014
- Performed various roles of Data Modeler, ETL Architect at Costco Wholesale in various projects
- Helped team to re-design 3NF data model called pharmacy data modernization OLTP application to suit inserts and updates. Designed and wrote requirements for ETL layer to be implemented in Informatica. This project helped to achieve performance improvement of OLTP application by 35%
- Worked as data modeler to design database layer for conflict minerals data storage and transformation to allow time travel of data analysis by designing Kimball's slowly changing dimensions type 1 and 2.This helped to achieve improvement in trend analysis queries by 40%
- Used tools like Sybase power designer to design normalized and dimensional, conceptual, logical and physical data models and created database layers with help of database admins and designed ETL processes including scheduling as requirements for ETL development team
- Designed MDM data model customization using Erwin for United Health Group Provider MDM as part of Polaris program and helping them to build persisting master data hub
Technology Lead
Infosys Technologies
Madison, WI
09.2005 - 11.2012
- Worked in technology services industry to develop multiple end to end data engineering pipeline development projects using tools like informatica,datastage,ssis to develop pipelines for various datamarts to serve decision making for clients
- Onsite Coordinator, Project Manager for clients in various domains like Insurance, Retail and Banking for various clients to translate business requirements to technical requirements for offshore engineers
- Planned and prioritized tasks mentored and approved timesheets for junior team members
- Worked in Agile environment attending standup meetings and iterative development
- Took training classes for clients at Nationwide insurance on Informatica Power Center
- Worked on software quality checks for various projects and helped them to be rated at CMMI level 5
- Voluntarily participated and led team in organizational level activities to create first car pool environment in Infosys Hyderabad office which helped to decrease traffic congestion near main entrance gate
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) - Electronics and Instrumentation
06.2001 - 07.2005
- Database design
- Object Oriented Programming
- C/C++
- Unix
Skills
Agile methodologiesClient communicationTeam leadership
Data product development
Data analysisETL, ELTVendor data compliance assessmentsData Visualization
Programming Languages - Python,Java,Unix
AWS
Data Pipeline Orchestration
Data Ops
Coaching and mentoring
Improvement initiatives
Certification
Data and Hadoop Developer Certification from Edureka
Work Availability
monday
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Timeline
Data Science Specialization via Coursera from John Hopkins University
08-2016
Python via Coursera
04-2015
Data and Hadoop Developer Certification from Edureka
02-2015
Senior Data Engineering Manager - McKinsey And Company
10.2014 - Current
Senior Associate Engineer - Cognizant Technologies
11.2012 - 10.2014
Technology Lead - Infosys Technologies
09.2005 - 11.2012
Birla Institute of Technology And Science - Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Electronics and Instrumentation
06.2001 - 07.2005