Data Engineer Engineering Leader

Gautham Tanikella

Downingtown, *****, PA, 804-***-****, **********@*****.***, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gautham- tanikella-72950a10/

SUMMARY Dynamic Engineering Leader with over 18+ years of software, data Analytics and data engineering experience and a proven track record in building enterprise-grade SaaS platforms. Adept at leading multiple teams building modernized architectures, complex architecture migrations, driving various highly complex integrations including real time model scoring services, rules engines, third party systems and services and optimizing data pipelines for performance, scale, resiliency and reliability. Successfully managed a 20- member team to streamline Tech Debt backlogs, enhancing security posture, and ensuring compliance. Excited to leverage technical expertise and leadership skills to drive innovation and efficiency at Harnham, contributing to impactful ML-powered solutions.

WORK EXPERIENCE

07/2023 – Present Engineering Leader, Capital One Wilmington, USA Led the migration of all Card Authorization tenants to an advanced, cell- based, configuration-driven, serverless platform.

Enabled swift onboarding of new credit policies and regulations through the implementation of a cold swap design.

Optimized integration with real-time machine learning model scoring and data-fetching services.

Oversaw a diverse team of approximately 20 individuals, including contributors, architects, and developers.

Boosted security and compliance by incorporating automated upgrade workflows.

Redesigned batch and real-time data transformation pipelines for multi- tenancy using a unified observability and monitoring framework. Employed GitHub Copilot to enhance developer productivity and facilitate an accelerated development cycle.

03/2021 – 07/2023 Engineering Leader, Capital One Wilmington, USA Championed the vision, roadmap, and implementation of a resilient, fault- tolerant Customer Data Platform.

Handled 150k events per second from various real time sources to create and make ML model backed audience and offer journey decisions. Onboarded approximately 25 different Bank Marketing offer campaigns. Engineered and maintained Airflow DAGS for orchestrating data processing that powers the platform with ~300 Unique Marketing Data features and 120 million customers and accounts combinations. 01/2019 – 03/2021 Senior Manager, Data Engineer, Capital One Wilmington, USA Directed the creation of a compliant in-house data solution aligned with FDIC regulations.

Innovated and launched the 'banksurance' initiative, guaranteeing regulatory compliance.

Designed and streamlined risk control workflows leveraging the Java Spring Boot-powered Business Process Management tool, Camunda. Shifted the risk organization from sample-based testing to full population testing, leading to a substantial increase in the risk detection rate. 01/2015 – 01/2019 Lead Data Engineer, Capital One Wilmington, USA Redesigned ETL pipelines through the implementation of a serverless architecture.

Oversaw the maintenance and support of roughly 60 Consumer Operations data pipelines.

Successfully migrated 60% of these data pipelines to serverless frameworks.

09/2011 – 01/2015 Senior Data Engineer, Capital One Wilmington, USA Engineered complex event-driven reporting tools.

Implemented advanced ETL processes utilizing Ab Initio. Developed reports and dashboards focused on branch sales performance. 08/2007 – 09/2011 Data Engineer, Dimension Consulting Reston VA Executed a data migration from SQL Server to Teradata for the Hibernia Bank acquisition.

Developed complex ETL jobs utilizing Ab Initio.

08/2007 – 09/2011 Business Intelligence Developer, Dimension Consulting Reston VA Designed and implemented ETL jobs leveraging SQL and PL/SQL to streamline the PeopleSoft HR hierarchy.

Generated business intelligence reports to analyze HR data metrics. SKILLS AWS GCP

Python Pyspark

Scala Java

NodeJS React

VueJS Typescript

Rest APIs gRPC

Serverless Computing Decision processing

Rules Engines API Gateway

EMR Glue

SQS EventBridge

SNS Lambda

Step Functions DynamoDB

Aurora Serverless ALB

EC2 ECS

Cloudwatch S3

Elasticache - Redis Fargate

Kinesis DynamoDB Streams

AWS Managed Apache Flink Route53

Drools JsonLogic

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Workfront

Google Analytics Ab Initio

Informatica Apache Spark

Quantum Redshift

Snowflake BigQuery

Teradata SQL

AWS Cloudwatch Splunk

NewRelic Grafana

DataDog Technical Leadership

Data Pipeline Management Technical Design

Distributed Systems Software Engineering

AI Platform Knowledge ERP Knowledge

EDUCATION

08/2005 – 05/2007 Wilkes University

Masters, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Wilkes Barre

07/2001 – 04/2005 Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University Bachelors, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

India

AWARDS AND HONORS

Circle Of Excellence, Capital One

Highest Honor in Capital One

TechX Winner, Capital One

Highest honor in Company wide Technology Organization

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