Vikas S.

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ABOUT VIKAS S.

Data Governance and Snowflake Data Engineer with 16 years of experience working in Banking and Healthcare. I have led important data projects, like decommissioning old systems, and developed strategies and policies to meet both business goals and regulatory rules. My skills include setting up automated data pipelines using Snowflake features and improving data flow in Snowflake to make data accessible and high-quality. I’m experienced in AWS Cloud Data Engineering, data quality, privacy, and security, and I explain complex technical ideas in simple ways for non-technical audiences. I have managed teams, trained staff in data governance best practices, and worked closely with stakeholders to put Data Governance programs into action at the organizational level.Involved Designed and implementing ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, process, and transform data into Snowflake from various sources like databases, APIs, or data lakes.Established strong access controls, configured user roles and privileges, and applied data masking to meet organizational and regulatory requirements, ensuring sensitive data is secure and compliant with governance policies.• Optimized data models and implemented clustering strategies in Snowflake, reducing query response times by over 50% post-migration. This significantly enhanced the speed of analytics and reporting for end-users.