I'm a Engineering Manager and Technical Leader with 15+ years of experience driving large-scale transformations across data, cloud, and application ecosystems. I specialize in building modern data platforms, event-driven architectures, and scalable web systems that bridge business goals and technology outcomes.
- Solution & Application Architecture: Modernize enterprise systems with cutting-edge design principles — crafting highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable architectures using microservices, event-driven patterns, and distributed computing.
- Data Platform Modernization: Architected multi-tenant lakehouse platforms using Spark, EMR, Hudi, Airflow, and S3, reducing ingestion time by 90%.
- Cloud Transformation: Migrated legacy data pipelines to AWS-native services, cutting operational costs by 60% and improving uptime to 99.9%.
- Application Engineering: Designed .NET Core APIs integrated with Kafka and RabbitMQ handling 10K+ requests/sec, enabling real-time analytics.
- Leadership: Built and led high-performing global engineering teams, delivering 3× productivity gains and 80% incident reduction.
Data & Cloud: AWS (EMR, S3, Athena, Glue, LakeFormation), Spark, Apache Hudi, Airflow, Kafka, Snowflake, Delta Lake
Application: .NET Core, ASP.NET, REST APIs, Microservices, Vue.js, React.js
Architecture: Event-Driven Systems, Data Mesh, SOA, Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
DevOps: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, CloudWatch, Datadog
- Engineered Cardlytics’ Core Data Platform, processing 200M+ daily transactions across U.S. and U.K.
- Delivered Deco system with complete Airflow orchestration, Spark export pipelines, and control validation framework.
- Architected SpendFeed Prime, enabling data reconciliation and validation across multiple feeds with high reliability.
- Recipient of multiple awards: Employee of the Year (2013), Innovation of the Year (2018), Outstanding Performance (2015).
- Databricks Data Engineer
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Microsoft Certified Professional
- Microsoft Specialist in C# and Web Technologies
- 💻 GitHub
- ✉️ Email: shashiknth0@gmail.com
“Design for scalability, build for reliability, and lead for impact.”