Gowtham Neelakandan
Chennai
Summary
Accomplished Technical Lead at dsm-firmenich with expertise in AWS services and Python programming. Successfully led data ingestion initiatives, enhancing data quality and pipeline reliability. Proven team leader skilled in stakeholder collaboration, driving modern data practices that significantly improved operational efficiency and scalability.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Manager/Lead
dsm-firmenich
Hyderabad
04.2022 - Current
- Data Lake Architecture and Ingestion Framework: Played a key role in architecting and designing the ingestion phase of a robust data lake framework, enabling efficient data acquisition and processing from diverse sources using AWS services.
- Ingestion Team Leadership: Led a central ingestion team responsible for sourcing data from multiple sources into the data lake, ensuring data quality, and pipeline reliability.
- DataONE Platform Development: Currently contributing to the development of a new data platform called DataONE, focusing on the ingestion component, and enabling SAP Datasphere,fivetran for seamless data integration.
- Data Access Management and Application Development: Developed a custom Python and Streamlit application to manage and streamline data access and sharing within the Databricks bronze layer, enhancing data security and governance.
- AWS Data Engineer with expertise in data migration, modernization, and technical leadership.
- Strong background in transforming data architectures and leveraging cloud solutions.
- Proven ability to lead teams through complex migrations and embrace modern data practices that enhance scalability and performance.
- Skills include implementing robust data solutions, ensuring data integrity, and employing best practices in cloud technologies.
- Reviewed and evaluated outsourcing proposals, and provided a cost/benefit analysis.
- Conducted regular reviews of user accounts and privileges.
Development Engineer
Comcast
Chennai
08.2021 - 04.2022
- As a software engineer, I streamlined operations by automating manual processes, significantly enhancing efficiency.
- Led the development of automation scripts that facilitated bucket creation and policy enablement, reducing the time required.
- Developed additional Python scripts for comprehensive monitoring, which proactively identified issues, ensuring system stability and optimal performance.
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies
Chennai
01.2015 - 08.2021
- Data Pipeline Modernization: Led the modernization of data pipelines, migrating from on-premises Abinitio to a cloud-native AWS environment.
- Built scalable solutions using Python and AWS Glue ETL, connecting to multiple data sources and automating data ingestion.
- Data Accessibility and Automation: Created crawlers to generate Athena tables, enabling users to connect their dashboards and access data easily.
- Implemented automated incremental (daily/weekly) and historical data loading processes using custom Python scripts and AWS services.
- Documented software development processes and procedures for future use.
- Modified existing software to correct errors, adapt to newly implemented hardware or upgrade interfaces.
Education
Master of Technology/Engineering - Information Technology
Vellore Institute of technology
01.2019
Bachelor of Science - Computers
K.S.Rangasamag College Of Arts And Science
01.2014
Skills
- Python programming
- Data ingestion
- AWS services
- Team leadership
- Streamlit
- Automation scripting
- Stakeholder collaboration
- SQL
- AWS
- Databricks
Timeline
Technical Manager/Lead
dsm-firmenich
04.2022 - Current
Development Engineer
Comcast
08.2021 - 04.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies
01.2015 - 08.2021
Master of Technology/Engineering - Information Technology
Vellore Institute of technology
Bachelor of Science - Computers
K.S.Rangasamag College Of Arts And Science
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