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Arun Lakshminarayanan

Arun Lakshminarayanan

Project Manager| Data Engineering| AWS | Azure | Python/ PySpark
Kochi,KL

Summary

A Data Enthusiast who has closely worked with data for the past 12 years and understood its impact in day to day life. It is the same impact that has turned into passion to solve real world problems.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Project Manager, Data Engineering

Tata Consultancy Services
3 2024 - Current
  • Lead the team of 5 from offshore, delegates task, consolidates work and provides status during the Status call.
  • Provide solutioning and designing to the development activities requested by the end users.
  • Involved in data profiling of all the source data to better understand the requirement.
  • Designed and developed ETL pipelines using Azure Data Factory/AWS Glue.
  • Configured and managed data storage solutions such as Azure Data Lake, Azure Blob Storage, Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB.
  • Hand-on experience in Python/PySpark.
  • Proactively initiated and successfully led the team to implement Python automation for various use cases.
  • Architected Informatica BDM data pipelines.
  • Implemented data security protocols, including encryption, access control, and identity management, using Azure Active Directory and other tools
  • Hands on Confluence and Jira for project management.
  • Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.

Senior Data Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2021 - 03.2024
  • Managed the team of 5 team members in the offshore and represented TCS on the design team for migration of on-prem Data Lake to AWS Cloud Environment along with Entergy, AWS, and Accenture.
  • Reviewed and analyzed the to-be architecture from TCS end and gave a go-ahead.
  • Got involved in grass root level design and implementation of data level use cases.
  • Review the project status and metrics on a weekly basis with clients and project teams.
  • Interacting with Data & Insights stakeholders to understand future business requirements.
  • Took the initiative to automate repetitive tasks that team performs on daily basis and got appreciated from clients on saving both soft and hard dollars.
  • Identified the skill gap in the team, curated the Learning plan for self and the team for up skilling to cloud architecture and made sure it is taken to completion.
  • Got involved in various Project Management activities such as Sprint Planning, Billing Accruals, and RFP presentations.

Senior Tech Developer

HCL Technologies
07.2020 - 11.2021
  • Accountable for a team of 4 from offshore, delegated task, consolidated, and provided status during the status call
  • Involved in data profiling of source data in order to better understand the requirement.
  • Developed XML target, XML Generator, XML Parser in Informatica BDM.
  • Worked with Informatica Cloud to stage Azure cloud databases.
  • Learned CA Workload Automation for scheduling the batch jobs.
  • Hands on Confluence and Jira for documentation.

Lead Developer

Emaar PJSC
05.2018 - 06.2020
  • Lead the data team of 5 for CRM, worked on use cases that improved customer satisfaction like NPS score and sentiment analysis.
  • Handling data inflow from various customer activities across many touchpoints in the company.
  • Got extensive hands on to work with migrating the traditional database to Snowflake, learnt Snowflake architecture.
  • Closely worked with Salesforce team as part of data integration.

Lead Developer

Capgemini Technology Solutions
10.2016 - 05.2018
  • Worked on multiple projects which involved Communication and Banking domains.
  • Learned data warehousing and ETL concepts in depth and go to apply them hands on to solve real world problems.
  • Understood the domain from the customer perspective and converted them to technical use cases.

Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2012 - 10.2016
  • Got trained in Informatica/SSIS and Oracle.
  • Worked on Insurance domain for the complete tenure.
  • Understood the foundation of RDBMS, data warehousing and started with basic development of data pipelines to the complex ones towards the end.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication

Amrita School of Engineering
Bangalore
05.2008 - 05.2012

Skills

  • Python/PySpark
  • AWS/Azure Cloud
  • Informatica PowerCenter/ Big Data Management (BDM)
  • SQL
  • Data Warehousing and ETL
  • Project Management
  • Salesforce Service Cloud

Certification

AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate

Contact

Greenwood, IN 46142

Timeline

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

01-2025

AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate

09-2024

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

07-2023

AWS Certified Developer Associate

05-2023

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

03-2023

Senior Data Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2021 - 03.2024

Senior Tech Developer

HCL Technologies
07.2020 - 11.2021

Lead Developer

Emaar PJSC
05.2018 - 06.2020

Lead Developer

Capgemini Technology Solutions
10.2016 - 05.2018

Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2012 - 10.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication

Amrita School of Engineering
05.2008 - 05.2012

Project Manager, Data Engineering

Tata Consultancy Services
3 2024 - Current
Arun LakshminarayananProject Manager| Data Engineering| AWS | Azure | Python/ PySpark