Lead Data & ML Engineer with 12+ years of experience (post-2014) driving data platform strategy, architecture, and execution for large-scale enterprise systems. Proven leader in designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable data platforms on Azure, with deep expertise in Databricks, PySpark, Snowflake, and API-driven ingestion frameworks. Hybrid IC and technical leader enabling ML-ready, reliable, and reproducible datasets for analytics and ML workloads.