Sindhura Rao
Bengaluru
Summary
Creative and empathetic technology leader and data architect with expertise in designing and scaling cloud-native data platforms in financial services and enterprise environments. Proven success in modernizing legacy systems and architecting governed data ecosystems, delivering high-performance solutions on AWS and GCP. Recognized for translating complex business requirements into scalable architectures and fostering engineering excellence through mentorship and collaboration.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Technical Lead
To The New
10.2024 - Current
- Architected and implemented a Snowflake observability platform integrating telemetry ingestion, governance controls, and operational dashboards, enabling real-time monitoring of warehouse utilization, query workloads, and cost drivers, improving engineering visibility and reducing inefficient compute consumption by ~35%.
- Spearheaded development of Snowflake Synthetic Data Platform with AI-driven configuration and dynamic SQL orchestration, enabling compliant test data generation at scale and reducing QA data provisioning cycles from days to minutes (~70% time savings).
- Established a standardized PySpark, Airflow and dbt reference architecture, institutionalizing best practices adopted across multiple client programs, reducing new project onboarding and pipeline setup time by ~35% while improving engineering consistency and maintainability.
- Designed a reusable Databricks Bronze → Silver transformation framework, introducing modular ingestion and transformation patterns that cut new pipeline development effort by ~30% and improved developer velocity.
- Partnered with executive stakeholders to design cost-efficient multi-cloud architectures (AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks), optimizing platform cost structures and reducing projected operational spend by ~20%.
- Mentored engineering teams and led architectural interviews and assessments to enhance technical standards.
- Led 7-member on-site engineering team and oversaw 3-member offshore team, ensuring architecture governance, executing technical initiatives, and aligning cross-stakeholder efforts on enterprise data platform projects.
Senior Software Engineer
To The New
06.2022 - 10.2024
PwC – Data Platform Modernization Lead
- Macquarie – Enterprise Data Architect
- Orchestrated transition of similarity search solution from single-node Python to distributed PySpark, achieving horizontal scalability and enhanced performance.
- Designed and delivered a strategic trade surveillance data platform, architecting ingestion, validation, and integration layers to support compliance and operational intelligence.
- Devised reusable serverless event-driven processing frameworks (AWS Lambda, SNS, SQS) to enable scalable communication patterns.
- Championed DWH modernization using dbt, transforming rigid SQL workflows into modular, testable transformation layers.
- Implemented automated regression validation framework to bolster release governance and minimize production defects.
Software Engineer 3 Big data
Walmart Global Tech
06.2020 - 05.2022
- Guided business and engineering stakeholders on platform strategies for Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and low-latency architectures, aligning technology with organizational goals.
- Enhanced Airflow orchestration capabilities with Java, Kafka, Sqoop, and Spark, increasing flexibility and fostering cross-team standardization.
- Architected containerized edge-node infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes) to enable independent data experimentation while preserving governance alignment.
Associate Software Engineer
J P Morgan India Services Private Limited
07.2017 - 06.2020
- Led migration from legacy JDBC integrations to enterprise data platform, achieving improved scalability and standardized architecture.
- Developed scalable fraud detection and risk scoring pipelines with Spark MLlib, enhancing data processing within distributed ecosystems.
- Built Spring Batch-based counterparty exposure processing gateway, ensuring reliable orchestration of batch processes.
Education
PG Degree -
Amity Global Business School
eLearning01-2020
Bachelor's Degree -
Dyanandasagar College of Engineering
Bengaluru01-2017
12th -
Delhi Public School
Faridabad01-2013
10th -
Mirambika School For New Age
Bengaluru01-2011
Skills
Data technologies: SQL, Hive, Impala, Presto
Distributed data processing: Apache Spark, PySpark
Data warehousing: Snowflake, Databricks, DBT
Data orchestration: Apache Airflow
Cloud platforms: AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Machine learning: Scikit, Spark MLlib
AWS services: EC2, EKS, AWS Lambda
Programming languages: Java, Python
Testing and quality engineering: JUnit, Mockito
Engineering practices: Agile development, Kanban methodology
Collaboration tools: Confluence
Certification
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate, Databricks, 06/19/23
- Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark 3.0, Databricks, 07/25/23
- Airflow fundamentals, Astronomer, 09/16/23
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional, Databricks, 02/08/24
- SnowPro Core, Snowflake, 02/27/24
- ChatGPT and GPT-4 LLM Guide - Prompt Engineering for Everyone, Udemy, 07/30/25
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer, Google, 01/04/26
Contributions
- Conference, IFERP by ICRESEET
- Blog, Unlocking the Secrets to the Perfect Database Choice
- White Paper, Brain controlled chess based on virtual reality for paralyzed patients
Leadership & Strategy Impact
• Defined enterprise data platform strategies aligning cloud architecture with commercial and regulatory
objectives.
• Established engineering standards and reusable reference architectures across engagements.
• Led distributed onshore and offshore teams and institutionalized architectural review practices.
• Drove cost optimization initiatives across cloud ecosystems through performance tuning and monitoring automation.
• Influenced executive stakeholders across Risk, Compliance, Product, and Infrastructure.
Timeline
Associate Technical Lead
To The New
10.2024 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
To The New
06.2022 - 10.2024
Software Engineer 3 Big data
Walmart Global Tech
06.2020 - 05.2022
Associate Software Engineer
J P Morgan India Services Private Limited
07.2017 - 06.2020
PG Degree -
Amity Global Business School
Bachelor's Degree -
Dyanandasagar College of Engineering
12th -
Delhi Public School
10th -
Mirambika School For New Age