

Strategic and results-driven Senior Director of Software Engineering with a proven track record in leading the Supply Chain Data platform for Walmart, overseeing a diverse team of over 150 distributed engineering professionals across the US and India. With more than 23 years of experience, expertise includes steering high-performance software engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions within complex and dynamic environments. Demonstrated ability to align technology initiatives with overarching business objectives, consistently contributing to organizational success through the development of cutting-edge software products and solutions. A commitment to fostering collaboration and driving excellence ensures impactful results that propel business growth.
Heading the Coupang Data Platform and Data engineering teams across regions Korea, US and India.
Leading the 30 plus engineering organization focusing on building Data platform, Frameworks to handle Peta bytes of data in data lake.
Led the Coupang data ecosystem transormation journey fromfrom heavy manual ETL development to self-service wizard-based development reducing the effort by 60%
Led the Data governance for Coupang, identifying the Critical data assets , defining the ownership, classifying the PCI,PII data, building lineage and establishing usability score. Data governance effort resulted in deleting 90% tables from 1.3 million to 100k tables and entire table life cycle was automated
Customized Open metadata to the scale of Coupang
Migrated 50000 plus reports from Red ash to Super set and built features of caching in Superset which are not available in open source
Led the Operations Excellence initiative for Coupang in driving the Incident management improved the SLA landing times from 90% to 99.8% and this was made possible by improving the reliability, observability and focus on automation. Revamped the MTTD and MTTR metrics by enhancing the alerting fwk based in critical path algorithm.
AI first approach for development and adoption of Windsurf resulting in 30% reduction of development effort
Led the Data agent framework for Coupang based on RAG and operationalization of the product to deploy interactive bots for analytics teams resulting in savings of 600 person days effort only from vertical “Brand Management system”
■ Google Cloud (GCP, BIGQUERY, GCS,DATA PROC)
■ BIG DATA ENGINEERING(ETL, DATA QUALITY, BATCH AND REAL TIME STREAMING)
■ BIG DATA PLATFORMS(Apache Spark ,APACHE STORM, AIRFLOW, DOCKER, KUBERNETEES,Apache Kafka
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■ APACHE HADOOP, HDFS,APACHE HIVE, APACHE HUDI, DELTA LAKE, YARN
■ AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS),EMR, Redshift,S3, DyanamoDB
■ Java, PYTHON AND SQL