Ganapathy Shanmuganathan

About Ganapathy Shanmuganathan

Professional: Proven technology leader, with over 16 years of hands on experience in data warehousing, business intelligence and reporting; Delivered results in various big data analytics and BI solutions; Built business intelligence programs and data infrastructure from ground up; Experience setting up data governance across organization and implementation of data architecture standards, guidelines and best practices; Key achievements- Built a distributed team of 11+ data engineers(from 4), 6+ Software Engineers (from 0), 1 Technical Program Manager; maintained high hiring bar for data engineers: formalized screening criteria, interviewed 200+ candidates- Launched a self-serve mechanism to automate data ingestions into Datalake at scale both interms of the data volume and concurrent workloads. Improved turn around time from weeks to 2 SDE days and empowered business stakeholders and the engineering team to make decisions quickly- Delivered a real time analytics solution built from scratch using Kinesis Streams, KDA Flink, AWS Timestream based architecture and establisted KPIs and enabled Operations team to make business decisions in real time- Led a cross-functional working group to improve security and privacy posture for the data infrastructures (DW and DL): defined governance mechanism, policies for data lifecycle, addressed gaps;

Experience

1. Sr Engineering Manager, Data and Ml Infra Platforms

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Mar 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Executed as a technology leader of Data and ML Infra Platforms for Support organization at AWS. Lead multi year vision to build self-service data products that help organization do analytics and science experiments at scale. Drove roadmaps of two functions: Data engineering (Re-building the next generation data warehouse for the organization) and Software engineering (took ownership of a new function by conceptualizing 2 greenfield products - ML Infrastructure for optimizing scientists velocity, Real Time Analytics, Security & Privacy).Staffed and lead a team of 11+ Data Engineers, 6+ Software Engineers and 1 Technical Program Manager.

Education

• Pondicherry University

  Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics

  2002 — 2006