Ramesh Nandipalli
Executive Director (Principal Engineer)
Hyderabad
Summary
Innovative data engineering leader with 17+ years of experience in cloud-native data solutions (GCP), data science, analytics, and generative AI. Proven expertise in building and managing high-performance teams to drive successful data initiatives. Skills include data migration, application modernization, cost optimization, and automation. Consistently delivers scalable and cost-effective architectures aligned with business objectives. Committed to fostering innovation, promoting cross-functional collaboration, and enhancing operational efficiency.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Executive Director (Principal Engineer)
WellsFargo International Solutions Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
02.2020 - Current
- Established cloud data engineering practice from scratch, expanding the team to 80 members and doubling productivity. Onboarded 9+ applications.
- Delivered a GCP hybrid data solution, managing 3PB data volumes, which increased analytical processing capabilities by 30%
- Established and led a Generative AI practice, building a team of 4 engineers to drive AI-powered innovations. Automated 250,000 software contracts, saving 3 months of recurring effort, significantly improving efficiency and reducing operational costs.
- Employed a combination of ETL (Abinitio) and GCP services (Cloud storage, Big Query, Pub/Sub, Cloud dataproc etc.) to ensure efficient data ingestion, storage, and analysis, which has secure ingress/egress capabilities
- Recruited, Lead and mentored team consist of 10-15 data engineers, analysts and data scientists
- Led the creation of a metadata platform, achieving comprehensive data governance and lineage tracking for 400+ users in hybrid environments
- Streamlined project prioritization and capacity planning across 20+ projects through effective stakeholder meetings
- Led a cross-functional panel that scrutinized data engineering/data science innovations in the customer relationship domain resulting in 30+ ideas and 6+ patent filings
- Lead data center exit strategy at the LoB (Line of Business), identifying 594 applications that could be successfully migrated to public, private, or IaaS platforms to achieve operational efficiencies and reduce costs
- Directed a comprehensive data center exit, transitioning 594 apps to cloud, achieving a 25% reduction in costs and a 15% uptick in efficiency
Data Engineering Manager
WellsFargo International Solutions Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
03.2015 - 02.2020
- Managed team of 10 data engineers and data scientists
- Built a data platform that supports analytics and customer centric credit decisioning making supporting 500+ users
- Led migration of a 400TB Enterprise DW project to a modern, cost-saving, open-source tech stack, slashing expenses by 20%
Lead Data Engineer
WellsFargo International Solutions Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
11.2010 - 03.2015
- Implemented data masking and encryption, resulting in a 5000+ man-hour efficiency gain.
- Spearheaded the Teradata to Mongo DB migration for customer analytics, slashing Teradata use by 20% and netting $950K savings.
- Implemented data strategies, build data flows using Microsoft Visio and develop conceptual data models, Physical and Logical models using ERWIN.
Data Engineer
WellsFargo International Solutions Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
01.2008 - 11.2010
- Optimized ETL workflows to manage 50TB/month, enhancing processing speed by 25%
- Facilitated Agile scrum methodology, resulting in a 20% increase in project delivery efficiency through continuous improvement
Education
Masters of Technology - Cloud computing
Indian Institute of Technology
PatnaAdvanced Program - Data science
Indian Institute of Management
KolkataExecutive Post Graduate Diploma - Business Analytics
Institute of Management Technology
New DelhiBachelor of Technology and Masters of Technology - Computer science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
HyderabadSkills
Database systems (Teradata, Oracle, DB2)
Python 3x, R
ETL (Abinitio, Datastage)
Big data technologies (Pyspark, Hive, Mongo DB)
GCP (Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Big Query, Dataplex)
Erwin data modeler, Microsoft Visio, Tableau
Data Science(Machine learning (Regression, classification, clustering, dimension reduction),Deep learning (Neural networks), Computer Vision, Natural Language processing, Statistics)
Generative AI (Langchain, Gemini, RAG, Phidata, Crew AI, Langgraph)
Data warehousing concepts, Data quality, Data Governance, Data Architecture
Certification
Microsoft cloud Data fundamentals
Activities
- 1 Patent filed from Wellsfargo
- One of the panel members in organizing committee of the Global hackathon 2024
- Received 'Gold coin', 'Achieving excellence 4' and 'Team Excellence' awards
- Lead a team which Secured 2nd position in WellsFargo Global AI(Artificial Intelligence) wise 2023 and Secured 1st position in DMI (Data management and Insights) data hackathon 2021
- Leveraged Generative AI models like Llava, Generative adversial networks and CNN in the academic projects of Executive education
- Implemented data masking and encryption, resulting in a 5000+ manhour efficiency gain.
- Spearheaded the Teradata to Mongo DB migration for customer analytics, slashing Teradata use by 20% and netting $950K savings.
- Implemented data strategies, build data flows using Microsoft Visio and develop conceptual data models, Physical and Logical models using ERWIN.
Timeline
Executive Director (Principal Engineer)
WellsFargo International Solutions Pvt Ltd
02.2020 - Current
Data Engineering Manager
WellsFargo International Solutions Pvt Ltd
03.2015 - 02.2020
Lead Data Engineer
WellsFargo International Solutions Pvt Ltd
11.2010 - 03.2015
Data Engineer
WellsFargo International Solutions Pvt Ltd
01.2008 - 11.2010
Masters of Technology - Cloud computing
Indian Institute of Technology
Advanced Program - Data science
Indian Institute of Management
Executive Post Graduate Diploma - Business Analytics
Institute of Management Technology
Bachelor of Technology and Masters of Technology - Computer science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University