Strategic and technically adept Data Services Leader with over 14 years of experience managing enterprise-scale databases, enabling cloud modernization, and leading high-impact teams. Proven ability to drive platform transformation, reduce infrastructure costs, and implement self-service capabilities across Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and cloud-native stacks. Recognized for building operational resilience, ensuring data integrity, and fostering a high-performance, customer-focused culture.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Data Services Team Lead
IG Group
Bengaluru
06.2017 - Current
£2M+ Cost Savings: Delivered recurring infrastructure savings via proactive hardware refresh strategies and open-source database adoption.
Modernized Data Platforms: Successfully migrated critical systems from Oracle to PostgreSQL and from MongoDB Enterprise to Percona, enabling a sustainable open-source strategy.
Self-Service Revolution: Launched PostgreSQL and Redis self-service frameworks, empowering developers and reducing DBA workload.
Leadership Impact: Managing a team of 7 DBAs and developers across global regions; introduced performance OKRs and upskilling tracks, boosting team capability.
Led end-to-end platform lifecycle management (PLM) across Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB environments—delivering consistent patching, version upgrades, and performance optimizations to ensure platform health and regulatory compliance. Championed bringing down database patching timescales from months to weeks.
Designed and implemented automated, self-healing mechanisms for proactive fault detection and recovery, reducing unplanned outages and enhancing incident response times.
Engineered scalable automation frameworks for routine DBA operations including backup orchestration, failover testing, and capacity planning—significantly improving reliability and reducing manual effort.
Revolutionized database security posture by implementing fine-grained access control, centralized credential vaulting with CyberArk, and robust audit trails—ensuring regulatory readiness and minimizing privileged access risks.
Established database access governance policies and integrated access workflows with enterprise identity systems, resulting in measurable improvements in audit compliance and internal control effectiveness.
Cloud Advocacy: Key contributor in expanding data workloads across AWS and GCP platforms, ensuring HA and cost-aware architecture.
Recognized Change Agent: Nominated for Spotlight Award for introducing automation and shift-left practices that boosted engineering agility.
OBIEE Administrator
IG Group
Bengaluru
04.2016 - 06.2017
Enterprise BI Transformation: Migrated IG’s Oracle BI platform from 10g to 12c independently, meeting security, HA, and performance benchmarks.
Process Innovation: Automated dashboard performance monitoring with OEM & Grafana; streamlined issue resolution and improved user experience.
Stakeholder Enablement: Conducted workshops and training sessions for finance, risk, and compliance teams to drive BI tool adoption.
Senior Software Engineer
Oracle
Bengaluru
03.2013 - 03.2016
Global OBIEE Support: Resolved critical BI issues across production environments for global clients including LDAP/SSO/AD integrations.
Infrastructure & Performance Tuning: Delivered scalable BI infrastructure across Unix/Linux/Solaris/AIX and improved RPD versioning in MUD.
Customer Success: Achieved high CSAT scores for resolving patch issues, version conflicts, and ensuring business continuity.
Software Engineer
CSC
Bengaluru
07.2010 - 03.2013
Data-Driven Design: Contributed to database schema design and performance tuning using SQL Server for analytics/reporting systems.
Process Impact: Automated ad hoc reporting modules using SSRS; participated in audits and optimized bug resolution cycles.
Early Leadership: Took ownership of unit testing and daily client interaction, laying the foundation for strong delivery accountability.
Invited as a panelist speaker at Nutanix .NEXT Conference in London (02/01/25) to share expert insights on PostgreSQL-as-a-Service and Data Platform Modernization. Represented IG Group's leadership in open-source adoption and database lifecycle automation.
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform