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Mohit Garg

Remote

Summary

Strong leader and implementer with around 14+ years of cross functional and technical experience (Data, Infra, Application Development) in designing and implementing business intelligence solution for Financial, Ecommerce, Product(marketing domain), Service base, Entertainment sectors to drive strategic and tactical decisions.


Specialties: Data Platform, Application Development, Big Data, Cloud Computing Technology leadership, architecture, strategy planning, project management, Budget Management

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head of Data Platform & Engineering

Funding Societies
06.2023 - Current

Proficient in Technology leadership, architecture, building great teams, strategy planning, project management, client/partner management and budget planning etc.

  • Strong technical leadership skills with experience in managing customer, vendor and teams .
  • Strong problem solving & technical skills, learnability of New Technology and evangelization
  • Optimize Data warehouse, cloud cost by 30% by implementing proper optimization techniques
  • Analytics Chatbot where user can use english language to do get different of analysis using Gen AI which will help to reduce TTD from 20 days to few minutes
  • Crafting technology strategic vision, roadmap and leading data teams to deliver creative solutions leveraging On Prem , Cloud & open-source technologies (Python, Airflow, Spark, Snowflake, Sagemaker, AWS Etc)
  • Managing multiples team in different vertical i.e. Data Platform, Growth, Finance Team
  • Growing teams, develop people, uplift skills and turning teams into highly performing teams
  • Architecting and delivering analytic data solutions that power business capabilities
  • Certified in AWS, Great Exposure of different component of Cloud, Infrastructure (Terraform, AWS, CI/CD etc)

Data Platform Architect

Meesho
08.2022 - 05.2023

Creating End To End Solution for Metrics Platform which will help to streamline all metrics definition across Org level, Impact is to reduce cost(30% of existing models) and streamline definition of metrics

  • Build Streaming Platform which will help to provide insights about in near real time. Vision is to move away from Enterprise solution (Mix panel) to build in-house solution using open source tech stack
  • Build In-House Infrastructure which will help to launch Airflow, Datahub over EKS
  • Build reusable frameworks, accelerators and in-house tools to improve the delivery efficiency
  • Lead Team for different platform, ensure end to end delivery of those platform

Architect

CRED
02.2021 - 08.2022
  • Build Data Platform team from scratch and setup a vision to create different data platform which will help Data Science, Data analytics to create their automated workflow
  • Architecture of Data Science Platform that help DS Team to maintain their model registry, Automatic deployment of Model, Real Time Influencing, AB Testing
  • Build Experimentation Platform which will help org to setup A & B Experiment on different north star, guardrail metrics. Track performance of those metrics which will help to grow active customers and revenue at ORG level


Computer Scientist 2

Adobe
07.2016 - 02.2021
  • Build Streaming Ingestion which help to take care about millions of events, where user can build different kind of dashboard.
  • Handle Scale of millions of events without duplicating data, Build in-House solution on spark, inhouse spark plugins, connector etc
  • Build Data Quality Platform which will help to provide data quality on event streaming, adding custom rules, adding anomalies algo and triggering notification etc
  • Completed reviews of codes, requirements, and project plans.
  • Performed tests of prototypes and final products.

Lead Engineer

Samsung
06.2015 - 06.2016
  • Working on TV Domain where build a system which will help to provide searching capabilities on events data and provide insights about different metrics

Senior Software Engineer

IntelliGrape
07.2012 - 06.2015

Software Engineer

Nvish
07.2010 - 05.2012

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

GZSCET
Bathinda, India
06.2010

Skills

  • Bigdata :- HDFS, Hive, Spark,
  • Streaming :- Flink, Spark, Kafka
  • Workflow :- Airflow, Oozie
  • Database :- Cassandra, Elastic Search, DynamoDB, Mysql, Hbase
  • OLAP :- Pinot, Druid
  • DWH & Data lake :- Databricks, Snowflake
  • Cloud & Infra :- AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins
  • Programming Languages: Python, Java, Scala
  • Catalog :- Open Metadata, Datahub
  • Observability :- Prometheus, DataDog

Additional Information

  • Leadership :- Team Leadership, Mentorship, Career Development, Performance Management, Conflict Resolution
  • Management :- Vendor Contract Management, Budget Planning, OKR Management, Regulatory Reporting
  • Development & Delivery :- Product Management, Project Management, Agile Methodologies, Sprint Planning, Stakeholder Engagement
  • Analysis & Improvements :- Process Optimization, Feature Development, Reliability Enhancement, Decision-Making Analytics

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solution Architect
  • Coursera Machine Learning Specialization

Affiliations

  • Best Performer in Adobe (Star, Team, Global Award)
  • One of the Best performer in CRED

Projects

Ingestion & Analytics Platform (Funding Societies) :  A self service data platform, which take care of ingestion of almost 15-20 sources, building analytics models, data governance, data quality etc

  • Ingesting Million of data points in a single day and Handling 1k+ DAG in a day
  • Utilize Snowflake as a Data Warehouse for creating data models and analytics layers accessible to stakeholders without deep SQL expertise.
  • Implement a domain-driven architecture encompassing RAW ingestion, data cleaning, common data modeling, and analytics layers.
  • Develop a Data Catalog with business glossary, lineage, and data assets using Open metadata deployed on Kubernetes, providing organization-wide data catalog capabilities.
  • Build a scalable data quality framework (Soda Core) to ensure consistent data quality maintenance.
  • Build Analytics or Metrics layer which will help to perform self-serve analytics without worry about query
  • Tech Stack :- Snowflake, Python, Airflow, Spark, Open Metadata, SodaCore, EKS, AWS Tech Stack


Metrics Store Platform (Meesho): Creating End To End Solution for Metrics Platform which will help to streamline all metrics definition across Org level, Impact is to reduce cost and streamline definition of metrics

  • Provides a centralized view of business metrics, cuts, dimensions, segments, and metrics across different organizational units.
  • Reduces compute costs by eliminating redundant metric computations, ensuring consistent metric definitions across organizations.
  • Scale :- 1K+ DAG, 100 Tables, Billion of Events, Multi tenant System
  • Tech Stack :- Databricks, Spark, Airflow, Python, Presto, SQL, EKS, Terraform, AWS


Streaming Platform (Meesho) :- It provides insights about in near real time. Vision is to move away from Enterprise solution (Mixpanel) to build in-house solution using open source tech stack.

  • Impact: Improved real-time data analytics, enabling proactive decision-making and operational efficiency.
  • Scale :- Billion of Events in Real Time, Kafka Connect
  • Tech Stack :- Superset, Kafka Connect, Datalake, Pinot, Flink, EKS,Jenkins,AWS


Data Science Platform (Meesho) :- Develop a self-service Data Science Platform for model training, serving, and performance monitoring.

  • Impact :- Accelerated machine learning workflows, improving model accuracy and deployment efficiency.
  • Tech Stack :- MlFlow, Python, ECS, Sagemaker, Feature Store (Sagemaker), Build-InHouse Feature Store, AWS


Experimentation Platform (CRED) :- A/B Testing platform which will help users to run their different experiment as per north star & guardial metrics based upon different user/product segment

  • Impact :- Growth in company revenue and User Engagement
  • Tech Stack :- SpringBoot, Mysql, Microservice architecture, Databricks, Presto, Jenkins, AWS


Communication Platform (CRED) :- Generic Platform that helps to send whatsapp, email comms for different campaigns etc.

  • Impact :- It help to increase revenue, user engagement on new features
  • Tech Stack :- Dropwizard, Kafka, Rate Limiting, DynamoDB, Mysql, Spark, Microservice Architecture, MongoDB


Data Quality Platform (Adobe) :- Architect a self-service data quality framework providing data profiling, anomaly detection, and rule-based alerting.

  • Impact :- Enhanced data quality management, ensuring reliable and accurate data for analytics and reporting.
  • Tech Stack :- Spark, Kafka, EMR, Mysql, Elastic Search

Timeline

Head of Data Platform & Engineering

Funding Societies
06.2023 - Current

Data Platform Architect

Meesho
08.2022 - 05.2023

Architect

CRED
02.2021 - 08.2022

Computer Scientist 2

Adobe
07.2016 - 02.2021

Lead Engineer

Samsung
06.2015 - 06.2016

Senior Software Engineer

IntelliGrape
07.2012 - 06.2015

Software Engineer

Nvish
07.2010 - 05.2012

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

GZSCET
Mohit Garg