Enabling Scalable, Modern Data & AI Platforms in a Hybrid, Data Mesh-Oriented Environment
Cloud
Data
AI & ML
Platform as a Service
Governance
Leadership
Communication
Problem-Solving
• Maintained legacy stack (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka), ensuring stability and SLA compliance
• Led migration to modern platform: Snowflake, DBT, Astronomer, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Crossplane
• Built governance framework: data contracts, OpenLineage, catalog, RBAC, DQ testing, observability, policy-as-code
• Promoted data product thinking and implemented CI/CD for data pipelines
• Designed scalable MLOps platform with model training, MLflow tracking, deployment, and monitoring
• Deployed internal GPT-based assistant over company knowledge base
• Built feature store, model registry, and real-time inference infra
• Ensured responsible AI: explainability, fairness audits, traceability
• Facilitated collaboration between data science, ML, and platform teams
• Led lake house solution development in a startup using AWS, Spark, Kafka, Python, Delta Lake, and Kubernetes
• Orchestrated workflows with Airflow and managed infrastructure with Terraform
• Implemented monitoring with InfluxDB, CloudWatch, and Grafana
• Built data governance platform
• Embraced fail-fast, agile approach, collaborating with diverse stakeholders to rapidly iterate and deliver
• Co-founded an IT company specializing in business management applications, with responsibilities in software design, development, business development, and management