Over 2 decades, every era of the data stack.

PepsiCo · Plano, TX

Principal architect setting technical direction across engineering, governance, product, BI and business stakeholders — translating business objectives into scalable technical solutions across enterprise marketing, integrated business planning and demand planning.

• Led end-to-end architecture for A&M Hub, PepsiCo's enterprise marketing/advertising data platform — unifying 50+ heterogeneous sources into governed Gold-layer data products across 20 Anchor Markets.
• Designed medallion pipeline architecture (ingestion → Bronze/Silver/Gold) with harmonized enterprise data models, and set architectural guardrails and reusable integration patterns adopted enterprise-wide.
• Built the trusted data foundation behind executive dashboards (Media Scorecards, Performance Reviews), with Gold data products architected for AI-generated insights and conversational analytics.
• Delivered data and integration architecture for PBNA's Integrated Business Planning — connecting driver-based forecasting (PFE), Enterprise Data Foundation, demand planning and Mosaic/TPM — and rolled it out across PBNA, PBUS and CAN markets.
• Drove data reliability governance (reconciliation, lineage, quality, observability) so enterprise planning decisions rest on trusted, production-grade data.
• Architected and implemented a "Sustain Agent" — an AI agent that automates data-issue identification, root cause analysis and solutioning, using custom skills/tools on MCP servers and RAG for contextual knowledge retrieval.
• Led the integration of PepsiCo's Forecasting Engine (PFE) into SodaStream's demand planning — connecting Oracle EBS, NetSuite, TM1 and Snowflake, with a daily/weekly forecast round-trip into TM1.

State Street · Boston, MA

Led the modernization of an anti-money-laundering and sanctions platform from an on-prem Hadoop data lake to a governed AWS Databricks Lakehouse.

• Architected the migration from on-prem CDH/HBase to AWS Databricks, aligned with compliance and business goals.
• Defined the target Medallion Lakehouse architecture and its standards for modelling, governance and security.
• Built Kafka + Databricks ingestion frameworks for high-throughput real-time and batch processing.
• Delta tuning (OPTIMIZE, Z-ORDER, VACUUM, Liquid Clustering, AQE) delivered 70% faster performance and 40% lower storage cost.
• Shipped data-quality, audit and reconciliation frameworks with automated alerting and operational dashboards.
• Authored a 1-year migration roadmap, ran POCs and architecture reviews, and mentored teams through Databricks adoption.

Nike · Beaverton, OR

Led data platform teams across two of Nike's largest analytics domains — global commerce and consumer (member) analytics.

Nike · Beaverton, OR

Hands-on engineering of Nike's batch and streaming data platform during the move from Hadoop to Spark and the cloud.

• Built batch and real-time pipelines with Spark, PySpark, Structured Streaming, Hive and Kafka/Kinesis.
• Shipped real-time streaming applications and dashboards on Kinesis, Kafka, ELK and DynamoDB.
• Migrated legacy Pig/Hive workloads to PySpark and Airflow.
• Built ARIMA-based data-quality and anomaly-detection frameworks.
• Established governance (Okera, Ranger, lineage, auditing) and led early POCs for Databricks and Delta Lake.

Aroghia · TCS · Cognizant · Sukraa · India/USA

A decade of ETL, data integration, data warehousing and Mainframe engineering for banking and healthcare.

• Aroghia (2013) — Lead ETL Developer at Sutter Health: Informatica workflows loading provider data into a Data Vault on SQL Server.
• Tata Consultancy Services (2006–2013) — Senior Consultant: Mainframe and Informatica integration for Union Bank, Citi and Bank of America.
• Cognizant (2005–2006) — Programmer Analyst: ETL and reporting for healthcare clients including Anthem Wellpoint.
• Sukraa Software Solutions (2004–2005) — Software Engineer: built a society information system for State Bank of India.