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Work History
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Key Achievements And Awards
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Sivacharan Irukulla

Aldie

Summary

Technology leader with over 15 years of experience in developing and managing enterprise data platforms and reporting solutions. Expertise in transforming data into actionable insights through scalable and privacy-compliant infrastructure. Proven track record of leading high-performing data engineering teams to achieve significant business outcomes.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Engineering - Data Infra, Engineering & Analytics

The Home Depot
11.2024 - Current
  • Managed and coached teams of software engineers, data engineers, and managers.
  • Executed three-year plan for Data as a Service to support advertising initiatives.
  • Designed and built scalable data products and infrastructure for diverse organizational users.
  • Acted as liaison between senior leadership and engineering/product partners to align initiatives.
  • Launched two data products within 60 days through cross-functional collaboration.
  • Reorganized team of 50 into three core teams to enhance efficiency and reduce dependencies.
  • Developed 'Ways of Working' documentation to elevate team performance.

Manager of Managers - Data Engineering & Analytics

Amazon Advertising
11.2022 - 11.2024
  • Led and mentored high-performing teams of software engineers, data engineers, and product managers.
  • Established a strategic vision for managing large-scale datasets to support advanced analytics.
  • Defined and implemented processes to achieve operational excellence in data engineering and governance.
  • Architected scalable data products and infrastructure to meet diverse organizational needs.
  • Collaborated with Finance and Sales teams to deliver tailored data solutions for advertisers.
  • Oversaw execution of multiple parallel data engineering initiatives aligned with business objectives.
  • Developed an enterprise-wide data strategy supporting growth and evolving requirements.
  • Implemented AI-driven code analysis, enhancing test coverage to 90% and improving development velocity.

Director – Data Engineering & Analytics

One Drop
05.2022 - 11.2022
  • Managed and coached a team of software engineers, data engineers, report writers, and quality analysts.
  • Designed and built data and business intelligence infrastructure for diverse organizational users.
  • Collaborated with product, clinical, and evidence generation teams to develop team-specific data products.
  • Defined and coordinated delivery of multiple parallel Data Engineering projects.
  • Developed a roadmap prioritizing critical initiatives while addressing necessary trade-offs.
  • Proposed future state architecture for low-latency, high-quality data delivery initiatives.
  • Established scalable data infrastructure for operational and analytical reporting needs.
  • Implemented processes for Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CICD) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Technology Director – Data Engineering

Henry Ford Health
03.2015 - 05.2022
  • Managed and coached teams of data architects, analysts, engineers, report writers, quality analysts, and server/cloud admins.
  • Owned and contributed to DAI roadmap encompassing planning, budgeting, and process improvement.
  • Architected and delivered data engineering projects aligned with strategic goals.
  • Served as advisory for all data engineering initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
  • Acted as liaison between business leaders and Information Systems Senior Management.
  • Ensured adherence to standards by organizing and coordinating team and departmental activities.
  • Optimized DAI operations to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Established strong relationships with vendor partners to support project delivery.

Sr. Lead Consultant

Novo Nordisk
10.2014 - 03.2015

Sr. Lead Consultant

Vodafone
12.2013 - 09.2014

Consultant

Arab Malaysian Bank
10.2012 - 10.2013

ETL Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2009 - 10.2012

Education

Leadership Development program -

Leadership Oakland
09.2019

BTech - Information Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
05.2008

Skills

  • AWS EMR
  • AWS Glue
  • AWS Athena
  • Trino
  • Azure Databricks
  • Alteryx
  • DBT
  • Airflow
  • MWAA
  • Amazon Step functions
  • Amazon QuickSight
  • Power BI
  • Looker
  • Tableau
  • Cognos Analytics
  • SuperSets
  • Mixpanel
  • Segment
  • Redshift
  • Synapse Analytics
  • Snowflake
  • Azure SQL
  • Oracle
  • IBM DB2
  • MySQL
  • Green Plum
  • Aurora Postgres
  • Elastic Search
  • DynamoDB
  • C
  • Java
  • Python
  • Keras
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • XGBoost
  • SQL
  • PowerShell
  • Bash
  • TypeScript
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jira
  • Git
  • Tortoise SVN
  • IBM Rational ClearCase
  • CA Harvest
  • Azure Purview
  • IBM Business Glossary
  • Alation
  • IBM Infosphere Information Governance Catalog
  • Amazon MSK
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • Kafka Connect
  • Debezium
  • Snowflake Streams
  • Snowflake Tasks
  • Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
  • Amazon S3

Key Achievements And Awards

  • Saved 5M dollars in hardware costs by modernizing the data environment to support extremely large datasets for analytics and data science projects.
  • Saved 1M dollars in admin costs by innovatively building a solution called Data Pipeline as a Service.
  • Improved quality and compliance across data environments in health system/plan and received recognition from State and CMS.
  • Elected by the organization for Oakland Leadership Development Program.
  • Improved patient experience with data throughout the episode.
  • Received a continuous improvement award, a rolling trophy, 2 times in a row for improving IT processes and customer experience.
  • Achieved 30% more adoption to data environments by building a modern data estate with self service capabilities.
  • Improved data literacy by conducting multiple road shows to educate, onboard and encourage several business departments to use data environments.
  • Implemented an innovative devops solution to enable CICD using Azure data technologies.

Timeline

Head of Engineering - Data Infra, Engineering & Analytics

The Home Depot
11.2024 - Current

Manager of Managers - Data Engineering & Analytics

Amazon Advertising
11.2022 - 11.2024

Director – Data Engineering & Analytics

One Drop
05.2022 - 11.2022

Technology Director – Data Engineering

Henry Ford Health
03.2015 - 05.2022

Sr. Lead Consultant

Novo Nordisk
10.2014 - 03.2015

Sr. Lead Consultant

Vodafone
12.2013 - 09.2014

Consultant

Arab Malaysian Bank
10.2012 - 10.2013

ETL Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2009 - 10.2012

Leadership Development program -

Leadership Oakland

BTech - Information Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Sivacharan Irukulla