Alekhya Kypa
Principal Data Engineer
Phoenix,AZ
Summary
A dynamic Technology professional with extensive experience as a trusted technical advisor and solution architect, delivering value through digital transformation and enterprise-scale cloud adoption. Proven expertise in building high-performing teams and a strong technical background in Data Analytics & AI platform implementation, architecture design, and stakeholder management.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Data Engineer, Data Analytics
United Healthcare
01.2020 - Current
- Flow Analytics Platform: Architected and developed a plug-and-play platform with a modular architecture that allows teams to add custom analytic nodes without altering the core codebase.
- Led a cloud migration effort to move on-prem SAS applications to Spark on Databricks in Microsoft Azure, resulting in a $20M savings in SAAS licenses and maintenance costs.
- Acted as a technical consultant to internal business teams, defining and documenting solution architectures for enterprise-wide data systems and aligning project goals with reference architecture.
- Established a data-driven decision-making culture and managed multiple high-performing teams, serving as a subject matter expert on modern data platforms.
- Coached and trained the team on Apache Spark, Scala, Python, and other technologies to improve performance and drive adoption.
- Built an end-to-end real-time pipeline using Databricks spark streaming to consume data from Azure Event Hub topics and load it into Snowflake.
Sr. Data Analytics Consultant
Wells Fargo
11.2018 - 12.2020
- Architected and implemented a multi-cluster Apache Kafka environment for data consumption, serving as a key technical advisor to stakeholders on data governance and processing.
- Designed and led the implementation of data pipelines using Confluent Source Connectors to consume high-volume data from various back-office systems.
- Developed Kafka Streams APIs to consume data from multiple topics and load the transformed data into Elastic Search, providing a unified data layer for internal operations.
- Managed stakeholder relationships and technical teams, driving decisions collaboratively to build consensus on product roadmaps and designs.
- Designed and implemented a web application that communicated with various payment systems (SWIFT, EMTS, RTP, etc.) to enable payment tracking for internal users.
Sr. Software Developer
Bank of New York Mellon
05.2016 - 11.2018
- Architected and designed a Bigdata 'Data Lake' pilot environment using Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Apache Spark, and Apache Kafka.
- Brought data from various sources into Hadoop and Cassandra using Apache Kafka and queried/analyzed it through CQL for quick search and reporting.
- Designed ETL pipelines using Pentaho to load data into relational systems like Oracle and Vertica.
- Developed and published dashboards through Tableau to report Asset management KPIs.
Senior Software Engineer
Schneider Electric
06.2011 - 12.2015
- Developed a web application by migrating a legacy code base from Socrates to Java using the Spring Framework.
- Led a scrum team as a Scrum Master following Agile frameworks.
- Designed and implemented business logic to improve battery calculations for Galaxy UPS Systems.
- Interacted with Sales and business users after every release to get their feedback and refine requirements.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
VIT University
05.2011
Executive MBA - undefined
Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta
01.2024
Skills
- Cloud & Analytics Platforms: Microsoft Azure (Fabric, Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, Databricks), Snowflake, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Big Data & Data Engineering: Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache Solr, Apache Airflow
- Programming & Databases: Scala, Python, Java, SQL, CQL
- DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, Jira, GIT
- Core Concepts: DataOps, MLOps, ETL/ELT, Data Visualization, BI & Self-Service Analytics
Certification
SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
Timeline
Principal Data Engineer, Data Analytics
United Healthcare
01.2020 - Current
Sr. Data Analytics Consultant
Wells Fargo
11.2018 - 12.2020
Sr. Software Developer
Bank of New York Mellon
05.2016 - 11.2018
Senior Software Engineer
Schneider Electric
06.2011 - 12.2015
Executive MBA - undefined
Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta
Master of Science - Computer Science
VIT University