Insightful Senior Data Engineer known for high productivity and efficiency in task completion. Possess specialized skills in data modeling, ETL development, and cloud computing solutions. Excel in problem-solving, teamwork, and communication, ensuring successful project outcomes and effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Data Engineer
Paypal India Private Limited
Chennai
04.2025 - Current
Migrated on-prem legacy pipelines to GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub), reducing processing time by 40%.
Built ETL pipelines on AWS (S3, Redshift) for cross-cloud data integration and analytics.
Optimized Spark jobs in Databricks to improve job execution by 30%, reducing cluster costs.
Designed and implemented data lakehouse architecture on Databricks, enabling seamless batch and streaming ingestion of multi-TB datasets.
Engineered scalable infrastructure tailored to complex financial use-cases (Accounting, Regulatory Reporting and FP&A)
Designed PayPal's payment flow model in BigQuery for regulatory compliance and Analytics usecase
Led the reconciliation process between SAP ECC and Hadoop-based SOR for several key financial metrics, including Revenue, Customer Liability and Total Payment volume (TPV)
Developed and implemented the ETL pipeline for PayPal's M & A data from Hive and BigQuery into the SAP HANA Finance Product Subledger to support daily financial close operations.
Developed a scalable pipeline transferring data from Oracle to Hive and BigQuery using Dataproc and PySpark.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
Led a team of 5 data engineers, driving agile delivery and enforcing CI/CD best practices.
Data Engineer
PayPal India
Chennai
01.2019 - 03.2025
Analyzed user requirements, designed and developed ETL processes to load enterprise data into the Data Warehouse.
Migration of legacy SQL from Teradata to Hive using spark, Sqoop & TPT
Developed various Spark jobs using Scala and Spark SQL with proper allocation of executor memory, cores and Driver memory.
Developed a robust ETL pipeline from external sources like AWS S3, SAP Hana into Hadoop
Analyzed the data and created proper partitioned/Bucketed hive tables for efficient data processing.
Senior Associate
Cognizant
Chennai
04.2017 - 12.2018
Developed various HQL jobs to load data from various feeds to Hive tables.
Monitored the performance of cluster and nodes in Ambari.
Configuration of file transfer jobs using SFTP/SCP in unix servers
Created shell scripts to archive data into HDFS
Software Engineer
Mphasis
Chennai
09.2011 - 04.2017
Involved in design, development and customizations of modules, testing and support of Insurance applications.
Created database packages, stored procedures, functions and triggers using Oracle PL/SQL.
Interacted with clients to gather requirements for enhancements.
Analyzed requirements and provided effort estimation.
Responsible for writing design documents, user documentations and test plans.