Ganesh Omayorupagan B

About Ganesh Omayorupagan B

I’m a Data Engineering leader with 18+ years of experience (12+ in Data Engineering) building and scaling enterprise data platforms and leading large, globally distributed teams.Currently, I’m a Senior Manager of Data Engineering at Walmart Global Tech, owning multi-domain cloud data platforms across Real Estate, Facilities, EV, and Supply Chain. I lead large cross-functional organizations responsible for ingestion, processing, analytics, and ML/GenAI data enablement, with platforms supporting 500+ datasets and users across business domains.Over the years, I’ve grown from a hands-on engineer into a platform and people leader focused on reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and long-term sustainability. I enjoy working at the intersection of engineering, product, and business to translate complex needs into simple, governed, and scalable data platforms.Recently, I’ve been leading Agentic AI initiatives to enable conversational, metadata-driven analytics and self-service data exploration, allowing business users to query enterprise data using natural language through orchestrated agents, semantic retrieval, and LLM-driven SQL generation.Core strengths:• Data Platform Strategy & Execution• Cloud-Native Analytics Platforms• Global Team Leadership & Org Scaling• AI/ML & GenAI Enablement through Data Foundations• Cost Optimization & GovernanceOutside of work, I’m a long-term individual investor with a strong interest in financial markets and business fundamentals. I enjoy analyzing companies, understanding how successful businesses are built, and applying disciplined portfolio and asset allocation strategies.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager - Data

   Walmart Global Tech India

   Jun 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Own data platform strategy across Real Estate, Facilities, EV, and Supply Chain domainsLead multiple cross-functional data engineering teams responsible for ingestion, processing, analytics, and ML/GenAI enablementPlatforms support 500+ datasets and users across business domainsLed enterprise data modernization initiative migrating workloads from on-prem and legacy platforms to a unified cloud-native architecture on GCP

Education

• Noorul Islam College of Engineering

  BE

  1999 — 2003

• National Institute of Technology Raipur

  Master's degree

  2003 — 2005

• Govt College of Engineering & Technology Raipur

  M.Tech

  2003 — 2005

• National Institute of Technology Raipur

  Master of Technology - MTech

• National Institute of Technology Raipur

  Master's degree