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Shashi Kiran

Milton Keynes

Summary

Experienced, result-oriented, resourceful and problem solving Data engineer with leadership skills. Over 20+ years of diverse experience in delivering data solutions ranging from Enterprise Data Warehouses, Big Data Architecture to Cloud based solutions across Banking, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Insurance, Travel and Manufacturing domain. Positions held range from Developer/Analyst roles through to Architectural and Team management roles.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Data Engineer

GSK
08.2020 - 08.2024
  • Responsible for designing, industrializing and maintaining pharmaceutical systems (Manufacturing/Supply chain)
  • Collaborated on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks, maintaining data integrity and verifying pipeline stability.
  • Designed data models for complex analysis needs.
  • Understanding business use cases for improving operational efficiencies
  • Developed spark applications using Pyspark in Databricks/Hadoop for data extraction, transformation and aggregation from multiple file formats and different source systems for analyzing & transforming the data. Created UDF's and pivoting the rows to thousands of columns for data science requirements
  • Developed automated data cleansing process to improve data quality and control totals check between source and target using Pyspark
  • Developed data pipelines, scheduling, ingestion framework to ingest different source database tables and event based framework for CSV file ingestion in Azure Data Factory.
  • Developed stream analytics for loading project specific parameters on to Delta Lake tables.
  • Ingesting and transforming data on Azure Synapse required for reports & dashboard
  • Developed ad-hoc datasets required for data science using python pandas
  • Designed and developed scalable, ingestion framework using Python, Sqoop, HDFS and Linked server (SQL server) to ingest the data from different source systems and extract REST API data using Python
  • Developed custom Microsoft Power BI dashboards, visualizations to deliver meaningful and actionable insights
  • Developed Airflow DAGs for scheduling
  • Implement and maintain CI/CD systems for deployment
  • Manage source code repositories, branching strategies, release cycles and perform code reviews

Senior Data Engineer

Sainsbury's
01.2019 - 07.2020
  • Data Migration from On-premise to AWS

Big Data Engineer

Santander
04.2016 - 01.2019
  • Act as principle developer developing spark programs using Scala & Python

Senior Developer/Analyst

Santander
01.2008 - 03.2016
  • Regulatory projects such as Liquidity, FMIS, Basel 2, Corporate Solutions

Senior Developer

BUPA
10.2007 - 12.2007

Senior Developer

Travel Port (Galileo)
06.2007 - 09.2007

Informatica Consultant

Abbey National PLC
09.2004 - 06.2007

Teradata Consultant

DBS Bank
05.2004 - 08.2004

Further Employment History Available Upon Request References Available Upon ReVuest

Education

Bachelor Degree Industrial Engineering and Management -

M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore University

Skills

  • Apache Spark
  • Databricks / Snowflake
  • Python / Scala
  • Cloud Computing (Azure / Amazon Web Services / Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
  • SQL (Oracle / SQL Server / PostgreSQL / Teradata)
  • Azure Data Factory / Airflow
  • CircleCI / Jenkins
  • Terraform
  • Talend / Informatica
  • Shell Scripting
  • Agile Methodologies

Certification

  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
  • Terraform Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 Certified Associate
  • Oracle Certified Associate - PL/SQL
  • Informatica Designer
  • RDBMS Concepts

Timeline

Data Engineer

GSK
08.2020 - 08.2024

Senior Data Engineer

Sainsbury's
01.2019 - 07.2020

Big Data Engineer

Santander
04.2016 - 01.2019

Senior Developer/Analyst

Santander
01.2008 - 03.2016

Senior Developer

BUPA
10.2007 - 12.2007

Senior Developer

Travel Port (Galileo)
06.2007 - 09.2007

Informatica Consultant

Abbey National PLC
09.2004 - 06.2007

Teradata Consultant

DBS Bank
05.2004 - 08.2004

Bachelor Degree Industrial Engineering and Management -

M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore University
Shashi Kiran