Shashank Shekhar

Combined Roles and Responsibilities(Eli Lilly): Tech Lead|| Consultant1|| Senior Manager|| Senior Data Engineer|| Solution Architect|| Project Manager

With over a decade of experience in Data Engineering, Solution Architecture, and Cloud Technologies, I have honed my ability to transform complex business challenges into scalable, high-performance data solutions. My expertise spans across data architecture, big data processing, AI-driven solutions, and cloud-native development, enabling organizations to leverage the power of modern data ecosystems.

Currently, I lead four high-impact projects in parallel currently, managing a team of 20+ professionals, including data engineers, developers, business analysts, and testers. My role demands a perfect blend of technical expertise and leadership, where I:

• Architect and design scalable solutions using AWS, Snowflake, Glue, and Lambda
• Lead data engineering efforts, ensuring seamless ETL pipelines, real-time processing, and AI integrations
• Engage with stakeholders daily, translating business pain points into actionable data-driven solutions
• Enable cross-functional collaboration, aligning engineering, business, and analytics teams to deliver strategic value
• Drive innovation with AI & LLM models, exploring cutting-edge advancements in data science and automation
• Passionate about data-driven decision-making, I thrive in high-impact, leadership roles where I can strategize, innovate, and build future-ready data architectures.

I'm actively exploring Senior Leadership opportunities where I can drive engineering excellence, mentor teams, and contribute to business growth through cutting-edge technology solutions.

• Improved solution efficiency by designing and implementing scalable architectures for enterprise clients.
• Conducted research using cloud services and python scripts to evaluate systems design and process efficiency.

Tech Stack: Data Engineering, Solution Architect, Data Pipelines creation, Data Modelling, AWS Cloud Services like Glue, lambda, S3, EC2 etc. , Python, Azure, Git, CICD, Airflow, Artificial Intelligence, LLM Models, SQL, Database creation, DDLs, Snowflake, etc.

Certifications: 3+ Azure, 4+ AWS, 7+ Coursera and Purdue University certificate course in software development.

Roles and Responsibilities(At SystemsPlus, Project 1)

SystemsPlus is a service based company where I worked for its double diamond client "Petco(an e-commerce company)" which is an American Pet retailer company in USA. Worked actively on various requirements related to API, AWS-Personalize and ETL developments with snowflake.

Majorly worked on: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, AWS Personalize, Cloud watch, IAM, Snowflake, Python, ETL Transformations, Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Pycharm.

Have worked on API Development, ETL requirements and recommendation engine using AWS Machine Learning Services like AWS Personalize.

Roles and Responsibilities: Have worked on 4+ API requirements where we have either build an API or have received the data using API-Endpoints to store it into snowflake using various transformations techniques.

Certifications

AWS Developer Associate

AWS Sysops Associate

Roles and Responsibilities(At Accenture)

Have worked on building a security system for Accenture that provides protection for all the applications used across Accenture in a desktop or Laptops. It has been one of the Challenging projects of my career. Started working in this project from Scratch where we build a framework consisting of 25+ measures like Antivirus, DLP, Patching, Google Chrome and various other software, which will auto-remediate any System within Accenture using PMT Tool.

• Mentored junior developers, providing guidance on best practices and coding techniques for improved productivity.
• Trained new developers and programmers on company standards for design and review.

Majorly used tools and technologies : AWS Services like API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Code deploy, Code Pipeline, Cloud formation, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Serverless, Spark, Python, Hive, Apache NIFI, POSTMAN, Octopus etc.

Languages: Python, NodeJs

Completed various POCs and Sub-projects:

Worked in 2-subprojects: Protect Mytech and Downstream Interactive Services

Moving data from SFTP server to Dynamodb: SFTP Server : Source>>>S3>>>Lambda>>>Dynamodb

Moving data from PMT tool to S3 Buckets using Kafka-NIFI and providing authentication using Cloud Front.

Getting data for Various Sources like 'MyEquipment', 'DLP' and 'Active Defense' with Get Request: Source>>>API Gateway>>>Lambda>>>Dynamodb

Generating Authentication Tokens for API Gateway data flow to provide security.

Achievements

Saved 1-Lakh+ hours for client in a whole year and provided security to all the Workstations across Company in the world.

Created a platform which will provide Security,

Certifications

AWS Architect Associate

AWS Cloud Practitioner