Engineering Manager Data Platform

Ajender Neelam Senior Engineering Manager

************@*****.*** 510-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajender-reddy-neelam/

employment

Foursquare San Fransisco

Senior Engineering Manager - Data platform. June 2022 to Current Owned data platform and data engineering across 5 engineering teams (20+ engineers), mentoring junior managers & engineers in both technical growth and professional development Delivered trusted, timely & performant central platform and datasets (30PB+ of data, 100s of pipelines, 10k+ Airflow tasks) that provided the foundation for all of Foursquare’s data products, data science, and customer support

Delivered Delta Lake for engineering teams with concurrency support, improving runtime for applications up to 12x

Owned vendor relationships, managing feature requests and influencing product roadmaps at AWS, Kinetica, Databricks, Atlas Mongo, and Cloudera

Hired and onboarded 10+ engineers and 2 managers globally (including offshore) San Fransisco

Engineering Manager - Data platform. Apr. 2019 to June 2022 Founded a data ingestion team and created Ingestion as a Service Framework for first and third-party data (1000+ partners) across all products

Collaborated with engineering teams to prioritize modernizing and standardizing the tech stack, deprecating 10+ systems

Drove efforts to reduce costs on AWS by defining an accountability process with engineering, product, and finance teams, resulting in a cost reduction of over 35% San Fransisco

Staff Engineer - Data Infrastructure Nov. 2017 to Apr. 2019 Spearheaded and completed Foursquare’s on-prem-to-cloud migration (8 teams, 20PB data, 100+ data pipelines) in 9 months

Partnered with legal and product to implement the privacy stack for GDPR and CCPA compliance Implemented an initiative to secure the Hadoop platform end-to-end with authentication and authorization across all tools and applications, with encryption enabled at rest and in transit GE San Ramon

Solution Architect- Infrastructure Jan. 2017 to Nov. 2017 Led the entire process of designing, building, and transferring the current infrastructure, data, and applications from an on-premises to AWS on S3 and EMR with a scale of 5PB data and 100s of applications

Hortonworks Mountain View

System Architect-Platform-Engineering Dec. 2014 to Dec. 2016 Delivered the Security Data Lake Project by migrating from Traditional EDW to Hadoop (30PB) with a real- time streaming application running in production. The application has 850 customers and 1 million events /sec throughput

Build Lamda architecture data ingestion and aggregation to make data available with a delay of an hour after creation

education

Masters in computer science, CA Jan. 2010 to Sept. 2011 Bachelors in Electronics and Communications

Engineering, JNTH

Sept. 2005 to May

2009

early employment

Comcast · Bigdata Tech Lead Oct. 2013 to Sept. 2014 Visa · Hadoop Consultant Mar. 2012 to Sept. 2013

Jb Micro Inc · Linux/Hadoop Engineeer Mar. 2010 to Jan. 2012

summary

Engineering leader with a robust

data platform, infrastructure, and

engineering background. Over 5+

years in engineering management

roles, combined with 13 years of

technical expertise and a proven

track record in designing, building,

and managing data solutions for

startups and enterprises.

Aws (S3,Ec2, Glue, EMR, EMR Serverless, MSK, IAM,

Lambda, RDS, Athena, EKS, SQS, SNS, Cloud watch,

Cloud trail, Cost explorer), Airflow, Kubernetes,

Spark, Databricks, Datahub, Delta Lake, Parquet,

Kafka, Mongo, Ambari, Cloudera Manager, Hadoop,

Yarn, MapReduce, Hive, Sqoop, Zookeeper, Presto,

Cassandra, Encryption, Luigi, CI/CD, Grafana,

Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Shell script, Mysql, Postgres, Kinetica, Dynamo DB, Cassandra, SQL,

Jenkins, Encryption, LDAP, Pagerduty, Git

skills

certifications

Amazon Web Services Solutions

Architect - Professional

Hortonworks Certified Apache

Hadoop Administrator 2.X

Datastax Cassandra certified

developer

Cloudera Certified Admin for

Apache Hadoop

Cloudera Certified Developer for

Apache Hadoop

Cloudera Certified Spark and

Hadoop Developer

CCA Cisco Certified Network

Associate

Cloudera Certified Specialist in

Apache HBase

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