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MANISH GUPTA

Bengaluru

Summary

Staff-level data engineering leader with 14+ years of experience architecting and scaling enterprise-grade data platforms across GCP and AWS. Proven track record of designing petabyte-scale lakehouse solutions, optimizing cross-cloud ETL pipelines, and enabling real-time analytics.Adept at driving org-wide data architecture decisions, building compliant frameworks to deliver cost-efficient, highly reliable systems. Skilled at mentoring engineers into senior roles and influencing technical strategy at the leadership level.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Engineer - Data Platform

Nike
Bengaluru
2026.01 - Current
  • Constructing data frameworks emphasizing data lineage and data taxonomy for enhanced Nike internal operations.

Principal Engineer

Square Shift, India (Google Premier Partner)
Bengaluru
2022.04 - 2025.12

Project: Learning Portal (Client: Cornerstone OnDemand).

Business Impact

1. Architected and delivered a next-generation data platform on AWS Glue, DBT, and BigQuery, migrating from a multi-tenant to a single-tenant DB architecture, achieving a 70% reduction in latency for the UI, and enabling scalable, client-specific analytics.

2. Designed and led the development of an event-driven, real-time pipeline using Kafka and BigQuery to compute leaderboard scores with a 1-hour near-real-time SLA, powering mission-critical product features for thousands of enterprise users.

3. Built an automated GDPR-compliant data deletion framework across AWS and GCP, eliminating manual operations, and ensuring 100% regulatory compliance across client organizations.

  • Tool Automation and Performance Impact

1. Defined and implemented a real-time monitoring framework for CDC connectors, publishing health metrics to BigQuery and integrating with Tableau dashboards, thus reducing ETL outages by 50% by catching failures early and taking action promptly.

2. Optimized Airflow orchestration with dynamic scheduling, cutting pipeline delays by 50%, and accelerating the delivery of business-critical dashboards.

3. Reduced cloud costs by 25% via performance analysis and resource tuning in BigQuery, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions.

4. Performed Elasticsearch optimization by migrating excess data of over 500 GB from a single shard to multiple shards using cluster re-indexing, and reduced bottlenecks for data ingestion.

5. Strategize export, import jobs to migrate data from production to lower environment for data evaluation.

  • Leadership and mentoring.

1. Led architecture discussions with business analysts, cross-team leads, and platform architects, leading to a robust design and considering strong business use cases.

2. Mentored a 4-member team, established an early demo, and fostered a fail-fast culture, influenced roadmap priorities, and accelerated project delivery timelines.

Key Technologies: Spark, Airflow, dbt, BigQuery, Glue, Delta Lake, Pub/Sub, ElasticSearch, Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Python, and SQL.

Project Lead / Senior Applications Engineer

Oracle India
2014.04 - 2022.03

Project: CRM Sales Fusion (SaaS Application) | Product Development | Global Enterprise Clients

  • Led architecture and backend design of CRM SaaS applications supporting 2000+ enterprise clients globally, handling millions of transactions per day with strict SLAs.
  • Designed and implemented scalable REST APIs & microservices (Java, Spring) and optimized data models that powered sales workflows for enterprise customers
  • Optimized performance by 25% through advanced profiling (JFR, SQL tuning, memory analyzers), improving page load times and client adoption metrics
  • Followed Model and Test driven development TDD.
  • Worked with 50+ enterprise clients in troubleshooting and resolving production issues.
  • Collaborated with cross-geography teams (US, Europe, APAC) to design multi-region support and ensure scalability of CRM SaaS architecture for global deployments.
  • Mentored junior engineers on system design, coding best practices, and debugging complex production issues, accelerating their growth into senior roles.
  • Drove automation in python for upgrading client customize dashboards along with release instead of manual work for upgrade

Key Technologies: Java, Spring, REST, SQL, Oracle DB, Kubernetes, CI/CD (Jenkins), Oracle Cloud-native microservices

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys
2011.03 - 2014.03
  • Worked as a developer for a RBS Relationship Manager platform (banking domain & Retail), delivered bank application model service and UI in java for 3 years.
  • Trained in Infosys with Specialization in Java/J2EE with CGPA 4.91/5 in 6 month

Education

PG - Data Analytics

IIIT Bengaluru
Bengaluru, India
08.2017

B.Tech - Information technology

College of Engineering Roorkee
Roorkee, India
08.2010

Skills

  • Big Data & Streaming: Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Delta Lake
  • Databases: MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch
  • Cloud platforms: GCP (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataplex, GCS), AWS (Glue, Redshift, Lambda)
  • Programming: Python, SQL, Java, Nodejs
  • ETL and orchestration: Apache Airflow, dbt, AWS Glue
  • DevOps/Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins

Certification

  • Oracle Java Certified Professional
  • Google cloud certified Data Professional & Architect

Timeline

Lead Engineer - Data Platform

Nike
2026.01 - Current

Principal Engineer

Square Shift, India (Google Premier Partner)
2022.04 - 2025.12

Project Lead / Senior Applications Engineer

Oracle India
2014.04 - 2022.03

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys
2011.03 - 2014.03

PG - Data Analytics

IIIT Bengaluru

B.Tech - Information technology

College of Engineering Roorkee
MANISH GUPTA