Abhiram Naidu Kankipati

About Abhiram Naidu Kankipati

Senior Data & MLOps Engineer with a proven track record of building and operationalizing…

Experience

1. Data Specialist

   BNY Pershing

   Oct 2023 — Present · NJ, US

   Architected and deployed a scalable data warehousing solution on Snowflake, processing over 5TB of dailyfinancial data and improving query performance for analytics teams by 40%.• Developed and operationalized a CI/CD pipeline for machine learning models using GitLab, Docker, andKubernetes, reducing the model deployment lifecycle from 2 months to under a week.• Engineered complex, performance-tuned PL/SQL packages and automated ETL workflows, enhancing datatransformation efficiency and ensuring 99.9% data accuracy for regulatory reporting.• Optimized Spark jobs for large-scale data processing on Azure, cutting down execution time by 35% andsignificantly reducing cloud compute costs.• Collaborated with the Internal Audit division to design and prototype a self-service data analytics platform usingPower BI and Python, empowering auditors to independently investigate anomalies and reducing data requestturnaround times by 60%.• Conceptualized and developed a GenAI-powered agent for audit teams using a Retrieval-Augmented Generation(RAG) architecture to instantly query internal policy documentation, significantly accelerating theevidence-gathering phase of the audit lifecycle.• Architected and implemented a scalable data modeling framework in Snowflake using dbt, building efficientincremental models that materialized as Apache Iceberg tables. This strategy reduced data processing latency byover 70% and enabled reliable, high-performance time-travel queries for critical financial auditing.• Orchestrate cross-functional data initiatives, implementing Azure SSO authentication and maintainingcomprehensive documentation for stakeholders.

Education

• Gayatri Vidyaparishad

  btech, Mechanical Engineering

  2013 — 2017

• Old Dominion University

  Master's degree, Computer Science