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Srinivas Kandi

Frisco,TX

Summary

Experienced IT professional specializing in data and digital transformation with expertise in crafting end-to-end data solutions, cloud migration, and data analytics on AWS and Azure.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Architect

Stifel Financial Corp.
Frisco, TX
05.2025 - Current
  • Responsible for architecting and building a greenfield data lake in AWS
  • Conduct POCs for leveraging AI in AWS cloud
  • Provide mentorship to junior team members and data engineers

AWS Professional Services

Could Data Architect
08.2021 - 05.2025
  • Lead efforts involving data platform modernization and migration to cloud for several AWS customers, providing architectural guidance and data strategy
  • Built greenfield transactional data lakes in AWS cloud, leveraging AWS services and open-source frameworks like Apache Hudi, Iceberg, and Delta Lake
  • Architect and implement data mesh and data governance policies leveraging AWS Lake Formation
  • Architect and built a reusable AWS serverless data ingestion framework leveraging several AWS serverless services such as AWS Glue, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Step Functions
  • Lead team of data engineers from AWS Partners and AWS internal resources on delivering MVP products for several Customers
  • Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.

Enterprise Data Architect

Texas Capital Bank
02.2021 - 08.2021
  • Led effort of revamping on-premises data platform to Azure cloud
  • Provided architectural design patterns for moving data to Azure cloud from On-premises
  • Provided architectural design for implementing Snowflake as cloud Data warehouse
  • Responsible to optimizing Azure spend by re configuring Azure resources
  • Responsible for creating Microservice architecture to query data from Azure Blob storage and Azure SQL using Azure Serverless Functions

Lead Big Data Architect

Tiger Analytics
10.2020 - 02.2021
  • Advisory role for several client engagement involving implementation of data lake using Databricks Delta Lake platform and Snowflake in Azure cloud
  • Lead offshore development team for delivering technical solutions in several client engagements
  • Led efforts in conducting proof of value and proof of concept to evaluate several technical solutions and provide clear choice recommendations to customers

Sr Principal Data Architect

Paycor
11.2018 - 10.2020
  • Responsible for revamping data analytics architecture at Paycor from onpremise to Cloud
  • Responsible for creating architecture and implementing Snowflake as data lake and data warehouse which included setting up Snowflake from scratch
  • Responsible for creating architecture for new data ingestion layer utilizing Azure data factory
  • Created custom Snowflake Azure Data Factory connector using Azure Durable functions
  • Responsible for setting up Paycor enterprise data lake in Azure
  • Created several reference artifacts for development team which include Azure data pipelines and Snowflake stored procedures and functions
  • Led team of 5 developers to implement data ingestion framework
  • Responsible for creating architecture to expose data via REST API's

Scrum Team Owner & Principal Data Architect

Nielsen IQ
06.2012 - 11.2018
  • Led effort of building big data platform initiative for replacing legacy data analytics platforms based on Netezza to cloud Datawarehouse Snowflake
  • Responsible for designing and implementing data ingestion framework for Snowflake utilizing Python and Apache Airflow
  • Led effort to build Data Lake in Cloud to enable On Demand Computing & data processing using Databricks and Cloudera CDH platforms in Azure
  • Analyze performance denigrating SPARK processes and provide code tuning techniques
  • Conduct several POC's on SPARK processing and create reference artifacts for Application Development teams
  • Published best practices and performance tuning techniques on Big Data processing using SPARK
  • Responsible for evaluating Big Data technology stacks and provide recommendations
  • Responsible for working with DEV OPS and infrastructure teams to oversee capacity planning for Cloudera Big Data platform
  • Responsible for overseeing capacity planning for Netezza platform
  • Successfully migrated Oracle based Data Marts to Netezza MPP platform

Datawarehouse Architect

Miller Coors
11.2011 - 06.2012
  • Designed ETL framework to support migration of master data from SAP MDM to Teradata MDM
  • Designed data integration architecture for data synchronization into MDM
  • Translated business requirements to conceptual and logical data models

VP Regulatory Reporting / Enterprise Architect

HSBC
03.2003 - 11.2011
  • Partnered with Risk, Finance and Technology groups to create a solution architecture for Finance regulatory Enterprise reporting framework
  • Served on Information Domain Architecture governance board
  • Responsible for setting ETL and Data Warehouse platform architecture standards
  • Created and published data strategy for Consumer Lending business unit
  • Responsible for Creation of Architecture Definition Document based on TOGAF ADM model to document technical solutions architecture across organization
  • Implemented best practices and performance tuning techniques for ETL and Data Warehouse platforms
  • Assured enterprise application integration by selecting tools, specifying shared data and code resources, defining interfaces and data flows, and monitoring.

Consultant

Ajilon Consulting LLC
02.1997 - 03.2003
  • Lead an offshore DW/ETL team comprising of 10 resources involved in developing an EDW for a financial institution
  • Designed and developed ETL processes
  • Lead a project of converting Legacy customer facing application to a Web based platform

Education

BS - Mechanical Engineering

Gulbarga University
01.1994

Skills

  • Cloud: AWS, Azure
  • Data Lakes: AWS S3, Azure Data Lake, Databricks Delta Lake
  • Big Data Technologies: Apache SPARK, HIVE, OOZIE, FLUME, Impala, SQOOP
  • Databases: Netezza, Teradata, Oracle, UDB, Sybase, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • No SQL Databases: DynamoDB, Cosmos DB
  • Programming Languages: Python, Scala, JAVA, Cobol
  • Cloud MPP Data warehouses: Snowflake, Redshift, Azure Synapse
  • AWS Technologies: AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, AWS Step Functions, AWS Event Bridge, AWS DMS, AWS Data Sync, AWS IAM, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon Macie, Amazon Sagemaker, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, EMR
  • Azure Technologies: Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, ADLS, Azure Blob storage, Azure Functions, Azure Event Bridge, Azure Key Vault, Azure SQL
  • DevOps: Azure DevOps, AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins
  • Change Control: Git, MKS, TFS
  • Data Catalog: Amazon Sagemaker Unified Stuido, Datazone, Azure Data Catalog
  • Data Streaming: AWS Kinesis, AWS MSK
  • Microservices & Containers: AWS Fargate
  • Microservices & Containers: AWS API Gateway
  • Orchestration: Apache Airflow

Websites

Certification

  • AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty
  • AWS Certified Associate Solutions Architect
  • TOGAF 8.0 Certified Solution Architect

Timeline

Sr Architect

Stifel Financial Corp.
05.2025 - Current

AWS Professional Services

Could Data Architect
08.2021 - 05.2025

Enterprise Data Architect

Texas Capital Bank
02.2021 - 08.2021

Lead Big Data Architect

Tiger Analytics
10.2020 - 02.2021

Sr Principal Data Architect

Paycor
11.2018 - 10.2020

Scrum Team Owner & Principal Data Architect

Nielsen IQ
06.2012 - 11.2018

Datawarehouse Architect

Miller Coors
11.2011 - 06.2012

VP Regulatory Reporting / Enterprise Architect

HSBC
03.2003 - 11.2011

Consultant

Ajilon Consulting LLC
02.1997 - 03.2003

BS - Mechanical Engineering

Gulbarga University

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