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Akshay Tigga

Bengaluru

Summary

  • Software engineering manager with 18 years of experience in designing, developing and scaling robust, highly available enterprise applications on cloud platforms for distributed computing tasks.
  • Technical acumen in the field of Data Engineering Management including data platform solutions, data governance, modelling, data pipeline automation, orchestration, storage and processing etc.
  • Technical Expertise in Architecture & Design Principles, design patterns, data structures and system design
  • Experience in leading and managing team of engineers while overseeing product and technical roadmap execution
  • Fluid understanding of Devops, DataOps, MLOps principles and automating CI/CD using version control systems and tools
  • Adept in Agile Methodologies along with strong focus on quality, compliance, cost effectiveness, release process and delivery schedule.
  • Proficient in stakeholder engagement, alignment and cross functional team collaboration

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager, Data Analytics

Syncron
01.2023 - Current

Syncron CSX Core Data & Platform - Core Data Platform & DataOps

  • Design Implement and Maintain data pipeline tooling,data collection, ingestion, transformation, storage and processing
  • Communicate and collaborate with domain team, data scientists and analysts to know attributes of feature pipeline for feature engineering
  • Build test and maintain self service infrastructure and tools to facilitate the consistent development and release process
  • Build and deploy docker containers for implementing monolith to microservice architecture

Engineering Lead

Syncron
01.2022 - 12.2023

Syncron CSX Core Data AI/ML Platform - ML Accelerator


  • Gain Understanding of pilot scope ML Models
  • Design and Build Model Deployment and monitoring solution for pilot scope
  • Design and build ML pipelines for anomaly detection, demand forecasting etc use cases
  • Design and Build infrastructure deployment and monitoring scripts
  • Regular interaction with Product management for finalizing the requirements, model parameters etc.

Associate Software Architect

Syncron
01.2020 - 12.2022

Syncron Uptime


  • Oversee, Develop and maintain data/ML pipelines that collect, process, and store large volumes of data from SFTP file systems and IoT sensors
  • Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of data storage and processing systems, including databases, data warehouses, and data lakes
  • Manage a team of data/ML engineers, providing guidance, mentoring, and performance feedback
  • Work closely with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand their data needs and provide solutions that meet those needs
  • Identify and resolve performance issues in data processing pipelines to ensure timely and efficient data delivery.
  • Designed and implemented a data model and analytics pipeline that enabled predictive analytics

Product Owner

SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd.
04.2019 - 12.2019

SAP CX Suite Integration - Customer Lookup Scenario


  • Analysis of business requirements, use cases and scenario discussion Creation of Architecture Concept Document and Software Design Document Technical Design, Development and Testing of features
  • Set up CI/CD and Build Scripts for Jenkins Pipeline
  • Co-ordinate with program management for validation and testing Stakeholder and Architecture Review, Demo Set Up

Associate Technical Architect

SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2019 - 04.2019

SAP CP Smart Proxy as a Service - Research


  • SAP Cloud Platform Smart Proxy as a Service is a SaaS application which enables Business Suite Developers to create a proxy layer on top of the already exposed OData Endpoints. The proxy takes care of Cloud Native qualities such as scalability, robustness, rate limiting, failure recovery, metrics, access control, authentication and authorization, monitoring in addition to specific requirement of multi destination routing from a single proxy with a provision to allow the developer to configure an additional logic.

Associate Technical Architect

SAP SE (WDF01)
06.2018 - 12.2018

SAP CP Enterprise Messaging as a Service


  • Develop Custom Resource Definition Approach to replace homogenous nodes with heterogenous nodes for a given StatefulSet.
  • Develop Custom Resource to start a primary, a backup and monitoring node for Solace PubSub+ instance with different resource requests and limits for CPU, Memory and Disk.
  • Development and Evaluation of a Prototype Demo Set Up

Associate Technical Architect

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
09.2017 - 05.2018

SAP CP Backend as a Service


  • Design and Develop OData APIs for Frontend (SAPUI5) Design and Develop provisioning of CDS models to get APIs
  • Design and Develop provisioning of REST/OData APIs based on core framework. Design and Develop Service Broker for runtime access.
  • Design and Develop Service Repository for Design Time Configuration Creation of Architecture Concepts Document and a Prototype
  • Set up CI/CD and Build Scripts for Jenkins Pipeline Architecture Review, Demo Set Up

Associate Technical Architect

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
01.2017 - 08.2017

SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP)


  • Design and Develop Fluid APIs to be used by developers for OData(V2/V4) Query,Create,Read and Update Scenario.
  • Design and Develop overall user experience to ensure low entry barrier viz by providing just Edmx and Core Data Service Model
  • Design and Develop Hooks to be provided for end user to provide extensions using the OData Programming Model APIs.
  • Design and Develop Client Side APIs for consuming Different Data Source like JPA,JDBC,OData etc.
  • Design and Develop Automation to test APIs
  • Creation of Architecture Concepts Documents and Prototypes
  • Set up CI/CD and Build and Automation Scripts for Jenkins Pipeline Architecture Review, Demo Set Up

Principal Software Engineer

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
07.2012 - 12.2016

SAP Gateway as a Service


  • Design and Develop Service Repository to be used by developers for Maintaining OData(V2) Service.
  • Design and Develop Service Repository APIs using Development Model Framework. Design and Develop Connectivity APIs for connecting to SAP Backends based on SAP Connectivity APIs.
  • Design And Develop Automatic Scale In Scale Out for Service Design and Develop Distributed Cache for Service
  • Design and Develop Automation to test APIs Design and Develop Database Migration Scripts
  • Creation of Architecture Blueprint Documents and Prototypes
  • Set up CI/CD and Build and Automation Scripts for Jenkins Pipeline Architecture Review, Demo Set Up

Principal Software Engineer

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
01.2013 - 12.2015

SAP Mobile Platform (OData Provisioning)


  • Adaptation of Service Repository APIs for OSGi Based rich client platform. Design and Develop update site for Application Delivery.
  • Design and Develop Automation to test APIs

Principal Software Developer

Jamcracker Software Technologies Pvt Ltd
07.2010 - 07.2012

Project Thunderbird,Avalon


  • Gathering System Requirements and discuss the use cases with PM for adding functionality to the JSDN Platform.
  • Design and Develop and Test the implementation. Providing build scripts for release

Consultant

Headstrong/Sterling Commerce
11.2009 - 07.2010

Project Lowes


  • Discuss the use cases with Lead for extending/customising functionality of Sterling Commerce for lowes.
  • Develop and Test the implementation. Providing build scripts for release

Senior Software Developer

IBM India Pvt Ltd
06.2006 - 11.2009

Project BDS Biller Direct


  • Maintaining the modules for Loading all the billing data received from P2K into the BD database. Maintaining the module for Display of customer bill invoice
  • Maintaining the Electronic Bill UI, Where customers can enroll/modify the Electronic Bill option. Maintaining the Activation module. This encompasses the enroll/modify/de-activate process.


Project Cash Variance and M isapplied Payments


  • Rewriting the existing coldfusion applications usingJAVA/J2EE technology
  • Maintaining/Enhancement of the module


ADS Password Reset Application


  • Gathering the system requirements for any new type of request to be added/modifying and existing request process.
  • Preparing the data model/use case diagramme. Developing/Coding for the application.
  • Testing the new implementations.

Education

EGMP Certificate Course - General Management

IIM Bangalore
Bengaluru, India
07.2023

B.Tech Honours - Electrical Engineering

IIT Kharagpur
Kharagpur, India
05.2006

I.S.C.E - Computer Science

Gulmohur
Jamshedpur, India
05.2001

I.C.S.E - Computer Science

Gulmohur
Jamshedpur
05.1999

Skills

  • Java, NodeJS, Javascript, Jquery,AngularJS, Python,HTML5, CSS3
  • Spring,struts,REST,Terraform
  • Oracle, Sybase ASE, Postgres
  • Git,GitHub SVN, Atlassian-Jira
  • Git, Docker, Jenkins, Maven, JUnit, Selenium
  • Data Pipelines,Data Warehouse,Data Lake, Data Lakehouse,Database Design,Data Mesh
  • SQL & NoSQL
  • DevOps Tools
  • Big Data Platforms (eg Hadoop, Spark,Kafka etc)
  • Elasticsearch,Apache Airflow, MageAI,Kinesis
  • Data Warehousing & ETL Tools
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Maven, Ant, Graddle
  • Linux(Ubuntu 160)
  • Cloud Computing,AWS, SAP Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, CloudFoundry
  • Atlassian JIRA/Confluence
  • Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA,PyCharm, VSCode
  • Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat etc
  • Project Management, Leadership and Team Management,Collaboration and Cross-Functional Coordination,Problem Solving and Critical Thinking, SDLC,Scrum,Agile
  • Java, J2EE, Spring, Rest, SAP Cloud Platform Integration, SOAP, OData, Enterprise Messaging,Microservices

Additional Information

Aiming to join an organization that values innovation and collaboration by leveraging my expertise in data engineering and software development with engineering methodologies to create innovative solutions that optimize data-driven processes to improve the accuracy of business insights derived from disparate data sources.

Accomplishments

    · Consistently recognized with outstanding feedback in annual performance appraisals

    · Recognized as a Catalyst in SAP.

Hobbies and Interests

  • Implement own projects using latest technologies
  • Volunteer for social service causes.
  • Composing Poems in Hindi.
  • Participate in YMCA youth recreation programs
  • Cooking, Fishing, Playing Table Tennis
  • Travelling and Blogging
  • Solving Puzzles

Timeline

Engineering Manager, Data Analytics

Syncron
01.2023 - Current

Engineering Lead

Syncron
01.2022 - 12.2023

Associate Software Architect

Syncron
01.2020 - 12.2022

Product Owner

SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd.
04.2019 - 12.2019

Associate Technical Architect

SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2019 - 04.2019

Associate Technical Architect

SAP SE (WDF01)
06.2018 - 12.2018

Associate Technical Architect

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
09.2017 - 05.2018

Associate Technical Architect

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
01.2017 - 08.2017

Principal Software Engineer

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
01.2013 - 12.2015

Principal Software Engineer

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
07.2012 - 12.2016

Principal Software Developer

Jamcracker Software Technologies Pvt Ltd
07.2010 - 07.2012

Consultant

Headstrong/Sterling Commerce
11.2009 - 07.2010

Senior Software Developer

IBM India Pvt Ltd
06.2006 - 11.2009

EGMP Certificate Course - General Management

IIM Bangalore

B.Tech Honours - Electrical Engineering

IIT Kharagpur

I.S.C.E - Computer Science

Gulmohur

I.C.S.E - Computer Science

Gulmohur
Akshay Tigga