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Anand Suresh

Anand Suresh

Data Solution Architect
Kochi
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Summary

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented data engineer who designs, develops and maintains highly scalable, secure and reliable data structures. Accustomed to working closely with system architects, software architects and data scientists to understand business or industry requirements to develop comprehensive data models. Proficient at developing database architectural strategies at the modeling, design and implementation stages.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certificates

Work History

Lead Data Engineer

EY
Kochi
10.2019 - Current
  • With EY Nitro Team
  • Nitro is research and development team within EY, working on building minimum viable products (MVP) based on AI. Nitro bring in latest trend and technologies to solve various requirements, ranging from Big Data, Cloud, Block Chain,Machine Learning to latest Quantum Computing
  • Leading 6-member team encompassing data engineers and data scientist to build robust AI application.
  • Built cross-functional relationships with 24 data scientists, PMs, and software engineers to understand data needs
  • Drove the design, building, and launching of 4 new data models and data pipelines in production
  • Reviewed code to adhere to data engineering standards and optimzie the performance of data pipelines.
  • Led performance tuning initiatives that optimized queries to yield a 53% improvement in data processing speed.
  • Implemented and maintained data architecture built around automated ingestion, data security, compliance, and governance
  • Responsible for 100% of all data quality across product verticals and related business areas
  • Generated detailed studies on potential third-party data handling solutions, verifying compliance with internal needs and stakeholder requirements.
  • Designed and implemented effective database solutions and models to store and retrieve data.
  • Built databases and table structures for web applications.
  • Contributed to internal activities for overall process improvements, efficiencies and innovation.
  • Brought in DevOps practices and used Azure DevOps platform for all deployments and project management
  • Has constantly encouraged and also participated in various organization technical events and also lead team to win AI Hackathon 2020
  • Learn and adapt newer technologies and trends in AI based solutions and data engineering.
  • Mentored 9 data engineers and 10+ other engineers and business leaders in all aspects of data management

Big Data Engineer Lead

Prudential Insurance (Client )
Newark
04.2015 - 10.2019
  • Worked as a Big Data Engineer with the Customer Office Team where the Company wanted to store, process & manage the huge amount of Customer data in day to day operations collected from various sources
  • Project aimed at developing full-fledged customer data lake which can be integrated with various AI services and BI platforms, there by bringing intelligent insights into improving customer experience at same time mitigating risk for insurer
  • Collaborated with various team & management to understand the requirement & design the complete system.
  • Developed scalable data pipelines and ETL processes, using Spark to process large datasets with daily volume of 5 TB.
  • Used Spark in Python to distribute data processing on large datasets, improving ingestion and speed by 67%
  • Implemented governance processes to ensure data integrity, which led to 96% accuracy rate.
  • Implemented monitoring systems to proactively address data quality issues, reducing anomalies by 36%.

Big Data Developer

XL Insurance (Client)
Coimbatore
02.2014 - 04.2015
  • Worked in the migration from Oracle to Hive, resulting in an annual cost savings of $678,000 and an increase in performance of 14%
  • Participate in full development life cycle including requirements analysis, design, development, deployment and operations support
  • Assist in Design and build data processing pipelines using tools and frameworks in the Hadoop ecosystem
  • Design and build ETL pipelines to automate ingestion of structured and unstructured data
  • Designed and documented 30+ table schemas
  • Engaged with business representatives, business analysts and developers and delivered comprehensive business-facing analytics solutions

ETL Developer

XL Insurance (Client)
Coimbatore
02.2013 - 01.2014
  • Worked as data warehouse resource for XL insurance client
  • Worked and learned on Informatica to develop EDW from scratch
  • Has developed various dimension and fact tables which includes implementing SCD logics using update strategy
  • Helped in creating workflow and scheduling jobs using shell script and AutoSys
  • Also has developed automation tool to schedule and retrieve the source data without manual intervention reducing 40% of manual effort.

Education

Master of Computer Application - Computer Engineering

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
05.2009 - 05.2012

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
05.2006 - 05.2009

Skills

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Accomplishments

  • CT Silent Warrior EY 2021
  • Global Quarterly Innovation Award EY 2021
  • EY GDS Hackathon – Data and Analytics Winner 2020
  • Cognizant Qlikview Hackathon Winner 2019
  • Associate of the Year Award 2017 - Cognizant
  • Best Performer Award 2014- Cognizant
  • Spark of EIM 2013 - Cognizant

Certification

Databricks - Generative AI Fundamentals

Interests

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Sports

Work Availability

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Timeline

Databricks - Generative AI Fundamentals

07-2023

Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate

07-2023

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate

04-2023

Microsoft Certified Azure AI fundamentals

01-2023
Lead Data Engineer - EY
10.2019 - Current

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

11-2018
Big Data Engineer Lead - Prudential Insurance (Client )
04.2015 - 10.2019

Hortonworks Certified Apache Hadoop developer

10-2014
Big Data Developer - XL Insurance (Client)
02.2014 - 04.2015
ETL Developer - XL Insurance (Client)
02.2013 - 01.2014
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham - Master of Computer Application, Computer Engineering
05.2009 - 05.2012
Bharathiar University - Bachelor of Science, Computer And Information Sciences
05.2006 - 05.2009
Anand SureshData Solution Architect