Results-oriented data professional with over 15 years of experience in data engineering, ETL processes, and data analysis. Demonstrated success in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data systems that guarantee accuracy and drive impactful business insights. Proficient in SQL, DataStage, and GCP cloud platforms. Collaborative individual dedicated to leveraging data for informed decision-making.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Tech. Anchor / Sr. Data Engineer
Ford Motor Company
Remote
01.2022 - Current
Led a team of 15 engineers across 7 concurrent projects, ensuring on-time delivery
Improved over all dashboards load time by 30% for legacy dashboards.
Migrated over 600TB of on-prem data to Google could environment.
Delivered multiple KPI's and dashboards to support external customer to be compliant with requirements.
Coordinated with business users to understand business needs, metrics, and reports.
Created and maintained technical design docs based on functional requirements.
Extracted data from various sources (databases, APIs) using appropriate techniques.
Provided daily support of data movement processes, using analytical skills to determine the cause and resolution of data and software issues.
Worked with the Data Science team to gather requirements for various data mining projects.
Cleansed, transformed, and validated raw data to ensure accuracy and consistency, handling missing values and outliers.
Developed and maintained data pipelines to automate data ingestion and processing.
Performed data validation and quality checks to ensure data integrity.
Presented analysis results and recommendations to stakeholders, influencing business decisions.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams (e.g., marketing, sales, product) to understand business needs and provide data-driven solutions.
Documented analysis processes, methods, and findings thoroughly.
Evaluated team performance to identify training and development needs.
Facilitated regular team meetings to enhance communication and alignment.
Developed project plans to guide teams through successful execution.
Implemented coding standards to improve code quality and maintainability.
Presented project updates to leadership to ensure transparency and alignment.
Collaborated with product managers to define technical requirements and develop innovative solutions for complex problems.
Implemented LLM based metrics reporting system for stake holders.
Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.
Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
Collaborated on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks, maintaining data integrity and verifying pipeline stability.
Compiled, cleaned and manipulated data for proper handling.
Analyzed large datasets to identify trends and patterns in customer behaviors.
Sr. Software Engineer
Miracle Software Systems Inc.
Client: Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI
05.2014 - 01.2022
Involved in functional and technical meetings and was responsible for creating ETL Source (SQL, Oracle, and Others) for Target maps (Data Warehouse)
Coordinated with business users to understand the business needs, metrics, and reports
Created and maintained technical specs based on functional specs
Provided daily support of data movement processes, using analytical skills to determine the cause and resolution of data and software issues
Responsible for tracking and logging all support issues to significantly reduce the time needed for support issues
Worked with the Data Science team to gather requirements for various data mining projects
Cleansed and transformed raw data to ensure accuracy and consistency, handling missing values and outliers
Developed and maintained data pipelines to automate data ingestion and processing
Extracted data from various sources (databases, APIs) using appropriate techniques
Performed data validation and quality checks to ensure data integrity
Presented analysis results and recommendations to stakeholders, influencing business decisions
Collaborated with cross-functional teams (e.g., marketing, sales, product) to understand business needs and provide data-driven solutions
Documented analysis processes, methods, and findings thoroughly
Client: Ford Motor Company
Guided architectural decisions by driving technical excellence and long-term system scalability.
Coordinated project milestones using Agile methodologies and Jira, improving project transparency and accountability.
Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
Tested methodology with writing and execution of test plans, debugging and testing scripts and tools.
Sr. ETL Developer
Ajel Technologies Inc.
Client: AmeriHealth Caritas, Plainsboro, NJ
10.2013 - 05.2014
Involved in technical leadership in the analysis, decision-making, design, and support phases of implementing computer applications and network hardware and infrastructure, operating systems, databases, and enterprise-wide business applications
Involved in development phase meetings for Business Analysis and Requirements Gathering
Managed the Metadata associated with the ETL processes used to populate the data warehouse
Responsible for daily verification that all scripts, downloads, and file copies were executed as planned, troubleshooting any failed steps, and providing immediate and long-term problem resolution
Created and Documented ETL Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Results, Assumptions and Validations
Implemented automation within ETL processes to reduce manual tasks and improve efficiency.
Reduced maintenance costs by creating reusable components within ETL pipelines.
Designed integration tools to combine data from multiple, varied data sources such as RDBMS, SQL and big data installations.
Designed and created ETL code installations, aiding in transitions from one data warehouse to another.
ETL Developer
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Client: GAP Inc., Pleasanton, CA
01.2013 - 09.2013
Client: Gap Inc, Pleasanton - CA
Created target (STT) mappings, which are essential for understanding the data flow and ensuring accurate transformation of data.
Designed and developed parallel jobs to extract data, clean, transform, and load the target tables using the DataStage Designer, a crucial tool for managing complex data integration tasks.
Created, optimized, reviewed, and executed Oracle SQL test queries to validate transformation rules used in source-to-target mappings/source views and to verify data in target tables.
Responsible for daily verification that all scripts, downloads, and file copies were executed as planned, troubleshooting failed steps, and providing immediate and long-term problem resolution.
Reduced processing time for ETL tasks through the implementation of parallel execution strategies.
Enhanced ETL processes by optimizing complex SQL queries and streamlining data extraction procedures.
Designed and created ETL code installations, aiding in transitions from one data warehouse to another.
Designed integration tools to combine data from multiple, varied data sources such as RDBMS, SQL and big data installations.
ETL Developer
Uniserves Inc
Client: Vanguard & TIAA-CREF, Charlotte, NC
08.2010 - 12.2012
Created source table definitions in the DataStage Repository by studying the data sources
Created Error Files and Log Tables containing data with discrepancies to analyze and re-process the data
Tuned DataStage transformations and jobs to enhance their performance
Wrote PL/SQL statements in Oracle for extracting and writing data
Enhanced the job properties for performance tuning
Reduced processing time for ETL tasks through the implementation of parallel execution strategies.
Enhanced ETL processes by optimizing complex SQL queries and streamlining data extraction procedures.
Involved in designing and developing a data warehouse environment
Translated business processes into DataStage Jobs to build data marts
Worked with sources like Oracle, SQL Server, Excel, and Flat files
Designed DataStage ETL jobs for extracting data from heterogeneous source systems, transforming and finally loading into the Data Marts
Identified source systems, their connectivity, related tables, and fields and ensured data is suitable for mapping
Designed and created ETL code installations, aiding in transitions from one data warehouse to another.
Programmer
Ajel Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2008 - 07.2009
Excelled in finding, documenting, and reporting bugs, errors, interoperability flaws, and other issues within proprietary software applications developed for Ajel Technologies's global user base
Demonstrated organized, detail-oriented, and thorough approach to all assignments while adhering to compressed timelines
Completed all tasks on or ahead of schedule
Managed project kick-off meetings to align team goals with objectives.
Education
Master of Science - Computer and Information Sciences
Texas A&M University
08-2011
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
Guru Nanak Institute of Technology (GNIT)
05-2008
Skills
SQL Expertise Advanced PL/SQL Expertise IBM DataStage Development Attunity Replicate (Data Replication) Google Cloud Expertise Data Analysis Using BigQuery Cloud Storage Deployment Google Cloud DataProc Management Data Fusion Solutions Alteryx Workflow Development Airflow Data Pipeline Management Automated Shell Scripting Expertise PySpark Hadoop Ecosystem (Hive/HBase/HDFS/Sqoop) Database (Teradata/SQL Server/Oracle/Db2) Scheduling (Autosys, Control-M) Project Management Technical Problem Solving Requirements Gathering
Timeline
Tech. Anchor / Sr. Data Engineer
Ford Motor Company
01.2022 - Current
Sr. Software Engineer
Miracle Software Systems Inc.
05.2014 - 01.2022
Sr. ETL Developer
Ajel Technologies Inc.
10.2013 - 05.2014
ETL Developer
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
01.2013 - 09.2013
ETL Developer
Uniserves Inc
08.2010 - 12.2012
Programmer
Ajel Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2008 - 07.2009
Master of Science - Computer and Information Sciences
Texas A&M University
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering