Kasi Viswanath

About Kasi Viswanath

Associate Director leading the Data Engineering team at Eli Lilly, where I manage and mentor a high‑performing group of engineers passionate about building scalable, reliable, and secure data platforms. Our mission is simple yet critical: proactively identify and resolve data issues before they impact the business—strengthening data trust through robust data observability, data quality frameworks, and contractor governance across Azure and AWS ecosystems.Previously at PepsiCo, I successfully delivered multiple enterprise‑scale initiatives leveraging cloud technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure DevOps. I led the Enterprise Data Observability strategy by designing and implementing a DataOps framework that enabled end‑to‑end data lineage and automated quality controls. This resulted in improving data quality success rates to 84% and reducing data incidents by 34%.I bring extensive experience in solution design and delivery through on‑site technical engagements across Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW), Azure Data Lake, AWS, big data, and advanced analytics. I have a proven track record in data modernization initiatives, successfully migrating on‑prem EDW platforms to cloud‑native Azure Data Lake architectures.With deep experience in matrix organizations, I excel at managing multiple vendors, balancing competing priorities, and delivering outcomes using agile methodologies. I specialize in prioritizing, implementing, and orchestrating automation solutions driven by trend analysis of recurring incidents—significantly improving turnaround time and overall productivity. I am known for strong verbal and written communication, effective cross‑organizational leadership, excellent remote collaboration skills, and high emotional intelligence.Leadership ExpertiseStrategy planning and executionOperational excellence and process improvementMentoring and talent developmentBudget and resource managementAgile delivery and vendor managementData modernization and automationBusiness development and stakeholder engagementTechnical and solution architectureCross‑team training and onsite/offshore team leadershipProblem solving and emotional intelligenceFunctional ExpertiseVendor and managed services management (DBA, AM Support, BI, Data Engineering)Technical delivery managementTechnology architecture and enablementSolution engineering (design, architecture, build)ITIL, DevOps, CI/CD, and code review practicesTechnical CredentialsAzure Data EngineeringDataOps Certified

Experience

1. Associate Director,enterprise Data

   Eli Lilly and Company

   Oct 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Delivered critical project milestones two weeks ahead of plan through accelerated knowledge transfer and execution discipline.Transformed team structure and operating model to drive higher productivity and sustainable delivery outcomes.Achieved a 53% reduction in incidents and 76% improvement in MTTR within two months by combining DataOps practices, automation, and focused mentoring.Strengthened Data Observability capabilities, increasing usability by 12% and enabling proactive issue detection.Defined standardized data validation and ETL quality guidelines, accelerating automation adoption across teams.Led the definition of enterprise‑wide SLAs and SLOs, embedding reliability governance into CI‑managed data platforms.Led proactive root‑cause analysis by creating and driving 9 enterprise‑level Problem tickets, reducing recurring data incidents by 42% and strengthening end‑to‑end data reliability.

Education

• M.KUMARASAMY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, KARUR

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2001 — 2005

• Vivekananda Intensive junior college

  Intermediate, MPC

  1998 — 2001

Skills

• Teradata
• Netvault
• Data Guard
• Fastreader
• Sql Tuning
• Knoweldge on Big Data
• Viewpoint
• Teradata Data Warehouse
• Sql
• Linux
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Arcmain
• Shell Scripting
• High Availability
• Etl
• Enterprise Software
• Rdbms
• Unix
• Data Modeling
• Data Warehousing
• Informatica
• Bteq
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Databases
• Teradata Dba
• Data Warehouse Architecture
• Oracle Dba 10g
• Oracle Dataguard 10 G
• Extract, Transform, Load (Etl)
• Rman