Resume
Ten years, from power plants to enterprise data architecture.
Making data move reliably at scale - and, since 2026, making everything downstream agree on what it means.
Experience
Architect - Data & AI (Ontology & Semantic Layer)
Apr 2026 - PresentFractal
- Own the enterprise ontology for the logistics domain of a Fortune 500 CPG company: shipments, loads, carriers and routes modelled as object types with explicit relationships, and business KPIs defined as governed measures over that model rather than as concepts beside it.
- Own the semantic layer that maps the model onto the physical transportation tables, so one business question resolves to one governed definition.
- Built the reconciliation gate no definition ships without: every governed KPI is recomputed from source and tied out against the figure the business already trusts, which is what keeps the model matching the data rather than the workshop.
- Drove the agent-access design through review with the client's AI and platform teams, so LLM agents resolve questions against governed concepts instead of querying raw tables.
- Built reusable AI agents and skills for data engineering workflows, adopted by other teams across Fractal.
Enterprise Data Architecture Enterprise Ontology Semantic Layer Data Governance AI Agents Timbr Azure DatabricksSenior Data Engineer
Nov 2024 - Mar 2026Fractal
- Led a five-engineer team responsible for the transportation data platform, setting architecture, engineering standards, review practices and delivery priorities across multiple workstreams.
- Architected a metadata-driven Medallion framework spanning 300+ production tables, letting new transportation source systems be onboarded through configuration rather than new pipeline code.
- Established team practices for responsible use of AI coding tools, including review and quality standards.
- Built an AI voice agent on OpenAI voice models to support first-round SQL interviews.
- Wrote for Fractal's GenAI newsletter and for the internal cloud and data learning curriculum.
Databricks PySpark Data Lakehouse Metadata-Driven Architecture Medallion Architecture Team LeadershipData Engineer
Jan 2023 - Nov 2024Fractal
- Built the transportation data foundation that later informed the enterprise ontology and semantic-layer work.
- Built ETL pipelines and analytical data models integrating multiple transportation source systems into analytics-ready datasets.
- Studied source data and end-to-end business workflows to translate operational processes into data models, transformations and business metrics.
- Interviewed business and technical stakeholders to pin down requirements, then modelled them into the production tables and business metrics the reporting ran on.
Data Modelling ETL SQL PySpark Transportation & LogisticsAssociate Data Engineer → Data Engineer
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022Futurense Technologies
- Built LMS data pipelines into the enterprise data warehouse using a metadata-driven Medallion architecture.
- Implemented audit and validation controls to make pipeline execution traceable.
- Owned releases across DEV, UAT and PROD, coordinating deployment and production readiness.
- Built the Oracle-to-warehouse pipelines and the dimensional models behind the finance team's Power BI dashboards.
Azure Data Factory Data Warehouse Dimensional Modelling Oracle Power BIConsultant
Jun 2019 - Sep 2021QuEST Global
- Analysed electrical and environmental data for a global petrochemical company across multiple business units.
- Built Tableau dashboards and KPI views for stakeholders across regions.
- Modelled operational and engineering data into the reporting views regional stakeholders made decisions from.
Tableau KPI Reporting Data AnalysisJunior Software Engineer → Software Engineer
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018Asenton Technologies
- Built and maintained applications using Python and SQL.
Python SQL
Education
PG Diploma - Thermal Power Plant Engineering
2018 - 2019National Power Training Institute, Neyveli
Power plant operation and maintenance - the year I moved from electrical engineering towards data.
B.E. - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
2011 - 2015Chettinad College of Engineering & Technology
Toolkit, certification & awards
- Architecture
- Enterprise Data Architecture · Reference Architecture & Roadmaps · Data Governance · Data Quality & Reconciliation · Dimensional, Medallion & Semantic Modelling · Enterprise Ontology · Metadata-Driven Frameworks · Cloud Migration & Modernisation
- Platform
- Azure · Databricks · Timbr · Azure Data Factory · Azure Functions · Azure AI Foundry · Microsoft Fabric
- AI
- AI Agents · Azure OpenAI · LangChain · LangGraph · MLflow · Generative AI enablement
- Core
- Python · SQL · PySpark
- Domain
- Supply chain & logistics · Consumer goods · Retail · Energy
- Certified
- Claude Certified Architect - Foundations
- Awards
- Star Award: Torch Bearer · Star Award: Kaizen
- Languages
- English · Tamil