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Saurabh Garg

Pune

Summary

  • 17 years of extensive experience in Banking Domain, Data Integration, Data products, Big Data & Machine Learning Feature Engineering.
  • Partnered with product and engineering teams to act as the voice of the customer, collaborated on product development roadmap with customer needs to address pain points.
  • Led multiple Partner and customer enablement initiatives in collaboration with account leadership team
  • Developed and expanded GCP offerings portfolio by leading migration acceleration Center (MAC) initiative as a part of GTM strategy for data workstream for NorthAm region.
  • Led design and implementation for reusable transformation frameworks, to create data layer for Analytical/reporting and Machine Learning use cases; utilized across bank as inner source adoption.
  • Leading Data Curation workstream to compute data statistics and Trend analysis to ensure data usability for various Machine Learning use cases.
  • Extensive experience in managing E2E projects from ideation to implementation
  • Leading implementation of full stack applications and Dashboards using front end technologies like Angular
  • Have lead and Implemented various Data products including DWH implementation, database migration, performance optimization for batch and real time.
  • Extensive experience in designing and developing generic frameworks for Data fidelity, reconciliation and DevOps.
  • Partnering with leadership teams to help create E2E data strategy, engineering capabilities, architecture to aim platform improvements, data products, new product proposition, simplify Machine Learning lifecycle.
  • Continue to be hands-on with latest technology including Google Cloud, AWS.
  • Strong foundation in Data Structures, Algorithms and system design
  • Rich experience in building teams, strategies and people management

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Data and Analytics Manager

Google
06.2022 - Current
  • Led the development and implementation of cloud transformation strategies for key customers, simplifying the adoption of Google Cloud Platform(GCP).
  • Analyzed customer data and feedback to identify trends and opportunities for building automation and tooling capability, service kits, assets to accelerate GCP adoption for Data, Gen AI and MLOps.
  • Partnered with product and engineering teams to act as the voice of the customer, collaborated on product development roadmap with customer needs to address pain points.
  • Led multiple Partner and customer enablement initiatives in collaboration with account leadership team
  • Developed and expanded GCP offerings portfolio by leading migration acceleration Center (MAC) initiative as GTM strategy for data workstream for NorthAm region.
  • Managed and mentored a team 10+ members, fostering a collaborative work environment and promoting professional development.

Assistant Vice President

Barclays Global Services Ltd
10.2017 - 06.2022
  • Leading & managing team of 20+ Data Engineers in providing E2E solutions in Data Integration, ML Engineering and data products space.
  • Led design and development efforts to created platform agnostic Integration Frameworks to transform ML specific features using metadata driven pipeline and transformed features data lake to foster data re-usability along with Data Statistics & trend analysis to accelerate model build activities.
  • Introduced processes to integrate ML feature pipeline in model training and industrialization environments for quick turn around time for LIVE implementation.
  • Have created and managed various engineering frameworks like DQ engine, automated pipeline monitoring, reporting Dashboards.
  • Lead and implemented Data Intensive products for unified view of customers across various channels/dimensions which helped business with better product offering, campaigns, regulatory asks etc.
  • Extensive experience in implementing Batch & Real time use cases with various data sources HDFS, HIVE, Teradata, Oracle, XML, Queues etc.
  • Simplified integration solutions to avoid re-work for day0 & BAU through Conduct>IT with extended and flexible parallelism with faster executions and better job consolidation.
  • Have led Informatica to Abinitio migration projects, have improved few hygiene factors like efficient executions, better audit traceability.

Assistant Vice President

CITI Bank
09.2013 - 10.2017
  • Designed & Implemented technical & business generic dynamic DQ checks & Recon related framework for both Batch & Real time covering Banking, Investments & Securities related feeds.
  • Lead engineering excellence initiative for BU to simplify Integration Devops pipeline, setup review forums, establish best practices & spread implementation knowledge with BTB & RTB teams which help in achieving capacity creation and developer productivity.
  • Have guided teams to proactively identify opportunities of optimization for long running jobs for improved infra, resource utilization & stability.
  • Migrated legacy multiple complex SQL procedures to Abinitio for efficient & flexible reports.

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture
06.2011 - 08.2013
  • Lead DGO initiative to define current level of Data quality for Critical Data Elements- Implemented generic frameworks to re-use across the group.
  • Implemented customer 360 view- Global implementation of customer management repository for comprehensive analysis for multiple business use cases.
  • Customer Immunization Redesign- Have managed design & implementation of this use case to avoid dependency on DWH.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional development team members to analyze potential system solutions based on evolving client requirements.

Abinitio Consultant

Steria India Ltd
06.2010 - 05.2011
  • Designed and developed Integration Solutions for Barclays Projects.
  • Implemented metadata driven solutions for reusable frameworks.
  • Created Audit generic framework for capturing E2E Data Flow stats.

Project Engineer

Wipro Technology
03.2008 - 06.2010
  • Created Generic Teradata Loader to optimize load based on incoming Data Volume.
  • Implemented test automation frameworks for A>I Jobs.
  • Platform Monitoring- Created generic jobs to proactively monitor Space and other key metrics to raise alerts.
  • Created re-usable Linked sub graphs in A>I for common tasks Enhanced, optimize solutions processing variety of source types like Ebcdic, XML, Teradata, Flat Files data for faster processing.
  • Managed & improved automated test suite for A>I.
  • Conduct Training sessions for Unix and A>I for Team members.

Education

B.Tech- 74.5% -

SRMSCET (UPTU)

Skills

  • Abinitio (Data Integration/Management)
  • ML Feature Engineering
  • Spark
  • Hive
  • Python
  • Devops (Udeploy)
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Curation
  • Oracle/Teradata
  • AWS
  • No Sql Database (Mongo DB)
  • Unix Shell Scripting
  • Data Warehousing
  • Real Time Processing
  • Angular

Certification

GCP Professional Data Engineer

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate

Timeline

Data and Analytics Manager

Google
06.2022 - Current

Assistant Vice President

Barclays Global Services Ltd
10.2017 - 06.2022

Assistant Vice President

CITI Bank
09.2013 - 10.2017

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture
06.2011 - 08.2013

Abinitio Consultant

Steria India Ltd
06.2010 - 05.2011

Project Engineer

Wipro Technology
03.2008 - 06.2010

B.Tech- 74.5% -

SRMSCET (UPTU)
Saurabh Garg