RAVI SINGH
Tampa,FL
Summary
Dynamic enterprise data platform architect with 19+ years of experience, driving innovation in Snowflake architecture and performance. Built a robust self-service data warehouse for thousands of users, implementing automation solutions that reduced manual tasks, and significantly improved data delivery and governance across the organization.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Database Administration & Architecture | Snowflake Subject Matter Expert
TRAVELERS INSURANCE
01.2020 - Current
- Built an enterprise Snowflake platform from the ground up, enabling self-service data access for thousands of users and supporting Petabyte scale data management.
- Snowflake SME at Travelers, led team of engineers to manage Snowflake platform, administration, performance tuning, development enablement, and new platform initiatives across multiple business units.
- Created automation foundations for self-service with homegrown APIs and repeatable workflows, reducing manual administration for business users.
- Implemented enterprise integrations and delivery automation, including ServiceNow-to-Snowflake replication and CI/CD pipelines.
- Acted as Snowflake SME for core platform capabilities, orchestration, security, new initiatives, and new application onboarding.
- Established governance and cost controls, implementing the Snowflake chargeback model and Python-based auditing scripts to ensure SOX compliance.
- Partnered with business units to address operational issues and enhance processes through technical leadership and effective communication.
Lead Teradata DBA
VERIZON WIRELESS
02.2013 - 01.2020
- Led a team of DBAs managing multi-petabyte Teradata platforms, with accountability for administration, availability, performance, upgrades, disaster recovery, and enterprise data-platform integration.
- Managed early large-scale Teradata Aster implementation in North America, later Teradata Vantage, and integrated QueryGrid across Teradata and Hadoop within UDA architecture.
- Led core platform operations and modernization, optimizing space and user management, backups, TASM, Viewpoint monitoring, QueryGrid, Teradata 16.20 upgrades, and Vantage implementation.
- Designed a disaster recovery process by reverse engineering DBC tables and strengthening recoverability for large-scale Teradata environments.
- Created an MVC compression utility that eliminated reliance on a third-party tool, saving millions in licensing costs and more than 400 TB of storage over five years.
- Automated user maintenance through a stored procedure API, reducing repetitive administration and improving operational consistency.
Teradata DBA
UNITEDHEALTHCARE
08.2010 - 02.2013
- Supported a 40 TB Oracle-to-Teradata migration initiative, including space estimation, architecture planning, capacity planning, reserved-word handling, and migration execution support.
- Led DBA support responsibilities by managing incidents with Teradata support, ensuring timely resolution and minimal downtime.
- Analyzed future space requirements and implemented data models to align database design and capacity with application needs, enhancing overall database performance.
- Supported enterprise data-warehouse migration and database administration initiatives, focusing on architecture planning, capacity management, data modeling, and production support to ensure seamless migration.
Software Engineer
TERADATA CORPORATION
02.2007 - 07.2010
- Designed, implemented, and debugged database-engine features in C/C++, including abort processing, transaction locking, online archive, and query optimizer functionality.
- Diagnosed complex production failures from Teradata crash dumps, developing targeted code fixes and technical solutions in collaboration with Level 3 support and customers.
- Conducted in-depth production-system analysis and Level 4 on-call support, identifying bottlenecks and workload-balancing opportunities to resolve critical customer issues.
- Initiated career as C/C++ database engineer focused on Teradata database internals, production diagnostics, performance analysis, and critical customer support.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science
CDAC
HyderabadAWS Certified Associate -
Teradata 12 Certified Master -
Skills
- Snowflake administration
- Enterprise Data Platforms
- CI/CD tools
- Infrastructure automation
- Platform automation
- Automation solutions
- Capacity planning
- SOX compliance
- Programming languages
- Technical Team Leadership
- Project ownership
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Stakeholder communication
- Mentorship skills
- Vendor Management
- Presentation
Personal Information
- Title: SNOWFLAKE DATA PLATFORM ARCHITECT | DATABASE ENGINEERING
- Work Permit: U.S. Citizen
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Community: Volunteer activities with Isha Yoga programs; teaches mathematics to school-age students.
Timeline
Database Administration & Architecture | Snowflake Subject Matter Expert
TRAVELERS INSURANCE
01.2020 - Current
Lead Teradata DBA
VERIZON WIRELESS
02.2013 - 01.2020
Teradata DBA
UNITEDHEALTHCARE
08.2010 - 02.2013
Software Engineer
TERADATA CORPORATION
02.2007 - 07.2010
B.Tech - Computer Science
CDAC