Shivaji Dhekale
Data‑Platform Architect @Expedia | Analytics on Kubernetes | Spark, SQL, Iceberg | AWS‑Certified SA | Migrations
- Role
- Senior Database Engineer at Expedia Group
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Shivaji Dhekale
Performance-driven and result-oriented IT professional with 18+ years of industry…
Experience
Senior Database Engineer
Oct 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Built hands-on GenAI proof-of-concepts on Amazon Bedrock, integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows, multi-agent orchestration, vector databases, and MCP.Hands-on expertise migrating on-premises applications and databases to AWS using AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS), AWS MGN, and AWS Database Migration Service (DMS).Hands-on expertise in architecting real-time, event-driven systems on AWS with Amazon EventBridge, SNS/SQS, Lambda, and Step Functions to enable loosely coupled, scalable services.Led the full migration of Expedia’s Teradata-based enterprise data warehouse to AWS, finishing ahead of the data-center lease deadline and meeting all performance SLAs while unlocking cloud elasticity and cost savings.Designed and managed production infrastructure entirely as code (Terraform, Amazon EKS), enabling repeatable, zero-downtime deployments and streamlined capacity planning for dozens of analytics services.Drove real-time analytics modernization, containerizing Apache Druid on EKS and later cutting compute spend ~30 % by migrating to StarRocks, all while handling multi-terabyte daily data ingestion.Hands-on expertise designing and deploying microservices on Amazon EKS/Fargate, backed by CI/CD pipelines and service-mesh observability for rapid, independent releases.Championed new analytics tooling: executed a PoC to migrate Looker from Trino to StarRocks and onboarded StarRocks as the primary query engine in Querybook, expanding self-service data access for hundreds of engineers and analysts.Hands-on expertise implementing cloud-native security controls—least-privilege IAM, end-to-end encryption, automated compliance checks, and continuous threat detection with AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, and CloudTrail.Collaborated cross-functionally with product, finance, and SRE teams to align cloud spend with business goals, mentor junior engineers, and evangelize best practices in cost-efficient, scalable data architecture.
Education
Shivaji University
B.E. (Information Tech)
Shivaji University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
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