Harsh Taunk

About Harsh Taunk

Enterprise ETL Architect & Cloud Modernization Pioneer: 12+ years architecting transformational data pipeline solutions across financial services, driving cloud-native adoption, polyglot technology integration, and data-driven operational excellence at scale• Ab Initio Mastery: Advanced command of GDE>Co-Operating System, Express>IT, Data Quality Environment (DQE), Continuous Flows, Conduct->IT, BRE, and Control Center for architecting sophisticated enterprise-grade ETL applications and mission-critical data integration frameworks• Hadoop-to-Cloud Migration Pioneer: Spearheaded large-scale re-engineering of legacy Ab Initio codebases from Hadoop ecosystems to serverless cloud architectures, leveraging AWS Athena for distributed SQL analytics, Lambda for event-driven ETL automation, and Kubernetes pods for containerized Ab Initio execution—delivering 40%+ performance gains and significant TCO optimization• Java/Spark Transformation: Architected strategic migrations of cloud-native Ab Initio projects to distributed Apache Spark frameworks using Java, modernizing legacy logic for cloud-scale parallelism, implementing enterprise business rule engines via IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM), and optimizing code architecture through IntelliJ IDE for maximum maintainability and performance• Data Warehousing & Analytics Excellence: Expert designer of dimensional data models (star/snowflake schemas), data quality validation frameworks (DQE), and performance-optimized SQL pipelines across Oracle, DB2, HIVE, and cloud-native data lakes—processing terabyte-scale analytical workloads with sub-second query response times• DevOps & Continuous Delivery: Deep expertise automating CI/CD pipelines for Ab Initio code promotion, orchestrating infrastructure-as-code deployments, managing build/test/release workflows via Control-M, ServiceNow, JIRA, and implementing comprehensive monitoring/alerting for production data pipelines• Technical Leadership & Capability Building: Proven ability scaling high-performing teams, mentoring junior/mid-level developers on cloud-native ETL patterns, Java/Spark best practices, and containerization methodologies—delivering knowledge transfer programs that build sustainable technical capabilities in regulated financial services environments••Advanced Systems Engineering & Automation: Mastery of Unix/Linux shell scripting, performance analysis and tuning, automated test frameworks, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Agile/Scrum methodologies, and technical documentation—enabling rapid iteration and operational excellence at scale

Experience

1. Senior Lead Software Engineer

   Virtusa

   Jul 2022 — Present · TX, US

Education

• Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

  2007 — 2011

Skills

• Db2
• Service-Now.com
• Data Warehousing
• Agile Methodologies
• Control-M
• Hive
• Shell Scripting
• Pl/Sql
• Unix
• Sql
• Ab Initio