Deepak Ahuja

About Deepak Ahuja

Cloud-focused Data & AI Architect with 18 years of experience modernizing enterprise data platforms, building scalable pipelines, enabling advanced analytics and AI/ML across AWS and Azure. Proven leader in transforming legacy systems into secure, automated, cloud-based architectures.

Experience

1. Sr Cloud Data & Ai Architect Technical Lead Data Engineering Leader

   The Cadmus Group

   Nov 2024 — Present · US

   Working as Cloud(AWS and Azure) Data Architect and Technical Data Engineering Leader for USDA NRCS ODIN ( NRCS Soils Science and the Plants Division )- Lead Data Engineering & DBA efforts for NRCS-ODIN (Soils, LIMS, Plants, WCIS teams) and support other teams such as DSHub, GDAC- Manage team of data engineers, BI Engineers, Data Scientists for tabular and spatial data delivery and data driven efforts for USDA NRCS ODIN contract- Design and Develop data decoupling solutions by following ELT Cloud Memo guidelines to built microservice based architecture- Manage TechDebt, O&M, DM & E, Hot fixes efforts as part of ongoing production & support for critical system architecture and reducing downtime for production outages- Design & building modern data driven solutions, migration of legacy apps/db/infrastructure/Devops to AWS cloud as part lift- & -shift and re-platforming/re-architecture efforts-Work closely with other architects/leads and teams such as GIS/Application/DevOps/Testing for the success of critical projects- Identifying, designing and implementing GenAI/Agentic AI use cases - Building AI Practice with AI capabilities and assets in advanced AI areas of AIOps, AI-Assisted Coding, Gen AI Chatbots and Agents- Responsible for data architecture, data engineering, database driven solutions, data management, O&M, Data Analytics, DBA efforts and production releases - Continuous collaboration with NRCS Government Product Owners and other stake holders - Data Engineering & Data Architecture using cloud based solutions- Implementing Data Governance - Designing and Implementing GenAI and Agentic AI solutions- Designing, building and managing Databricks pipelines, compute, security and optimizing the cost with Azure infrastructure - Designed and built data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, PySpark, Scala/Spark, ADLS, Azure Synapse and DataBricks

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Master's Degree, Artificial Intelligence

• Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Sharepoint
• Mvc
• Visual Studio
• Sql
• Xml
• Requirements Analysis
• Power Bi
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Wcf
• Software Development
• Extract, Transform, Load (Etl)
• Asp
• Ssas 2008
• Sql Server Integration Services (Ssis)
• Ssrs
• Crystal Reports
• Sql Server Reporting Services (Ssrs)
• Ssis
• Databases
• C#
• Pl/Sql