Pratap Raj
Bangalore
Summary
Focused Engineering Leader accomplished in team leadership and product development. 15+ years of diverse IT experience spanning Infrastructure, BigData and Cyber security. Excellent decision-making, planning and communication skills.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Engineer
Kenvue Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
02.2025 - Current
- Directed multi-cloud and on-premises architecture, optimizing infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and data centers.
- Defined cloud landing zones, zero-trust patterns, hybrid connectivity, and enterprise guardrails for security and compliance.
- Led design of cloud self-service platform with automated provisioning and Infrastructure as Code pipelines.
- Managed microservices platform (AKS, EKS) including cluster architectures, service mesh, GitOps, and SRE practices.
- Implemented Azure Local based virtualization strategy for edge and manufacturing workloads.
- Established enterprise standards for logging, metrics, tracing, APM, SLO/SLA frameworks, and AI-assisted monitoring.
- Ensured availability and resilience of critical manufacturing and commercial systems through lifecycle management.
- Drove cloud cost optimization with forecasting and budget alignment in hybrid environments.
Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platforms
Lowes India Services
Bangalore
08.2023 - 02.2025
- Led cross-functional engineering teams in the design, development, and launch of innovative product solutions leading up to the migration and sunset of legacy data integration platforms.
- Developed a Kubernetes-based 'Spark as a service' product, streamlining programming and data integration for enterprise clients.
- Successfully oversaw Talend 7.3, Informatica Power Center 10.x, PWX (Oracle to Kafka CDC), and Bigdata clusters - HDP 3.x, CDP 7.1 with enhanced efficiency.
- Led the creation and maintenance of essential data pipelines and platforms, serving over 300,000 users across 1,700 stores.
- Participated in regular reviews of existing systems architecture in order to identify areas where improvements can be made.
Lead Data Engineer
Lowes India Services
Bangalore
03.2022 - 07.2023
- Led a 10-member team responsible for platform administration and application development
- Took charge of leading the team responsible for deploying Spark on Kubernetes at the Enterprise
- Managed the administration, maintenance and handling of escalations for Talend, Informatica Power Center/CDC and HDP clusters
- Developed various automation pipelines to support the creation and management of a platform as code.
- Developed and integrated Apache Airflow in order to improve the performance and reliability of the enterprise scheduler.
BigData Platform Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
Oslo
04.2019 - 03.2022
- Responsible for the establishment and management of a Machine Learning platform dedicated to detecting fraud, supporting more than 200 banks throughout Europe.
- Established and maintained Kafka clusters with geo replication for enhanced fraud detection services in the financial industry.
- Provided technical guidance on development projects as well as implementation of new technologies to business stakeholders.
- Setup and maintained machine learning clusters using Anaconda and HDP for advanced data analysis
- Ensured successful migration and optimization of all HDP clusters.
Bigdata Administrator and Cloud DevOps
Tata Consultancy Services
Tampere
03.2016 - 10.2018
- Key Responsibilities: Design, planning, installation and configuration IoT solution(Cloudera Hadoop on AWS cloud) for a major cargo flow company in Finland & Sweden.
- Spearheaded and automated Cloudera Hadoop cluster build and maintenance operations leveraging Ansible.
- Utilized R Studio, Rapidminer, Cloudera Data Science Workbench, Tensorflow, Jupyter, and Tableau Server to integrate streaming tools for data science and machine learning workflows.
- Successfully implemented CI/CD utilizing Ansible, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Sonarqube Git, and Artifactory.
Bigdata Administrator
Tata Consultancy Services
Kochi
07.2015 - 02.2016
- Managed and maintained Hadoop clusters for internal product team and client PoCs. Installed Cloudera Distributed Hadoop, Hortonworks Data Platform, MapR, and EMR clusters. Upgraded Cloudera Manager and Hortonworks-Ambari in response to client requests.
- Setup enterprise grade security features including data encryption, Kerberos authentication and governance.
- Learned and evaluated the latest Hadoop ecosystem components, facilitating knowledge sharing sessions for the wider BigData team.
DevOps and Information Security Engineer
Poornam InfoVision
Kochi
12.2010 - 06.2015
- Information security team coordinator for 17 member team, providing regular updates through bi-weekly reports to executive leadership.
- Achieved 100% compliance with ISO 27001:2013, ensuring continuous uptime, customer confidence, and successful BCP/DR tests.
- Provisioned and maintained private cloud, web servers, and mail servers.
- Utilized IPMI to resolve server boot and downtime problems; executed OS and software installations in a Data-center housing over 80,000 servers.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication
MG University
Kerala, India01.2010
Skills
- System Architecture
- Data Warehousing
- Big Data technologies
- Data Migration
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Technology Integration
- Team Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Cross-functional team management
- Strategic Planning
- Forward-thinking mindset
- Data Security
- Time Management
- Infrastructure development
Affiliations
National rank holder in PCM scholarship exam
Plays badminton at intermediate level
Self taught PC builder
Certification
- Cloudera certified Hadoop administrator(CCA131)
- IBM certified Hadoop administrator(Level2)
- Certified SAFE practitioner
- MapR base certification
- AWS cloud practitioner
Accomplishments
- Individual and Team Excellence award in Lowes India Services
- 'Innovative virtuoso', 'Open source guru' and various other technical excellence awards in TCS
- Annual best performer award in Poornam Infovision
Languages
Malayalam
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Elementary (A2)
A2
Timeline
Principal Engineer
Kenvue Solutions India Pvt Ltd
02.2025 - Current
Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platforms
Lowes India Services
08.2023 - 02.2025
Lead Data Engineer
Lowes India Services
03.2022 - 07.2023
BigData Platform Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2019 - 03.2022
Bigdata Administrator and Cloud DevOps
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2016 - 10.2018
Bigdata Administrator
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2015 - 02.2016
DevOps and Information Security Engineer
Poornam InfoVision
12.2010 - 06.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication
MG University