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Akash Singh

Brampton,ON

Summary

Results-driven Senior Applications Consultant with 6+ years of experience delivering scalable cloud and big data solutions for a leading US-based telecommunications client. Proven expertise in data engineering, cloud migration, automation, and building frameworks for high-performance data ecosystems. Adept at leading cross-functional teams, managing stakeholder expectations, and aligning technical initiatives with business goals.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Applications Consultant

Capgemini Canada
06.2024 - Current
  • Contributed to securing client RFPs by designing strategic migration plans for transitioning legacy systems to scalable, cloud-based architectures.
  • Managed a cross-functional team of 6 onsite and 30 offshore members, ensuring seamless collaboration and project execution.
  • Implemented enterprise-level integration of Airflow, DBT Cloud, and Snowflake with Iceberg to deliver scalable data solutions aligned with client requirements.
  • As a Cloud and Big Data Engineer, developed and deployed automation solutions and reusable frameworks to enhance efficiency and streamline data workflows.
  • Developed internal documentation and marketing collateral to improve stakeholder visibility.
  • Conducted over 40 technical interviews across the US, Mexico, and Canada to support project staffing and resource planning initiatives.
  • Optimized application architecture by consistently reviewing code quality and implementing best practices.
  • Increased customer retention rates through proactive engagement during post-implementation support, ensuring all client needs were met and exceeded.
  • Streamlined processes with the implementation of automation tools, reducing manual workload and increasing efficiency.
  • Reduced project timeline by effectively managing resources and prioritizing tasks according to business requirements.
  • Championed continuous improvement initiatives within the organization, applying agile methodologies to drive positive change in development processes.
  • Improved customer satisfaction by providing technical support and troubleshooting assistance for complex application issues.

Applications Consultant 2

Capgemini Canada
06.2022 - 06.2024
  • Performed work across the life-cycle with focus on the upstream phases (Design, Business analysis)
  • Estimated work and participate in project planning
  • Actively managed escalations from team or client; been able to properly escalate and manage issues on the projects and got positive customer feedback and have credibility, and advisory relationship with team leads and project managers from the client org
  • As a Cloud and BigData engineer, contributed to various frameworks to automate process wherever need and provided Demo to various Clients and teams
  • In addition to this, Stepped into various roles like Data Engineer, Solution Architect and Business Analyst on needs basis to fulfill project requirements
  • Creating HLD, LLD and Support documents to help operational support team in understanding the project and provide support in the production environment
  • Interacting with team members effectively to have better knowledge of project and plans
  • During this period have interviewed around 30+ Candidates across US and Canada for Disney accounts to fulfill the resources requirement

Associate Consultant

Capgemini India
10.2020 - 05.2022
  • Design and develop highly scalable, efficient, robust & fault-tolerant Big Data systems and solutions
  • Solution involved integration between Minerva (Analytics) Hadoop and the Care Team and ingest agents guided flow usage and store it in a Hive table for data discovery and future reporting requirements
  • As a BigData engineer, developed file ingestion framework
  • Its an automated process to ingests files with a simple metadata update
  • It included creating metadata related information having remote server, filename, user, ftp and other details and storing in oracle database
  • Developed python scripting and pyspark to fetch files from remote servers based on metadata information present in oracle tables and ingested those files on Hadoop platform based on the logics specified and many other features integrated in it
  • Developed solution to ingest data from AWS S3 to on prem Hadoop environment
  • Creating HLD, LLD and Support documents to help operational support team in understanding the project and provide support in the production environment
  • Interacting with team members effectively to have better knowledge of project and plans
  • During this period have trained a batch of 15 freshers in BigData tools and technology as per industry skills and have deployed them into various projects

Senior Analyst

Capgemini India
10.2019 - 09.2020
  • Subject Matter Expert on one of the projects which included Care Team Data Ingestion
  • Worked with client functional team resolving industry specific requirements during solution development phase
  • Provided QA assessment on system design and organizational readiness for cutover and go-live based on targeted completion date
  • Developer in the analysis, design, configuration, and implementation of Ookla Speed test analytics
  • Responsibilities included to provide the automated solution to ingest the files from Ookla server to hive for analytics purpose
  • Design and develop the BigData solution by creating the python scripts for ingestion and oozie workflows for data loads in hive
  • Correlate the Ookla data, DHCP dataset and ICOMS to connect Dynamic IP with MAC and related customer information
  • This dataset would provide the insight of download/upload speed of the internet performed by customer in various devices
  • These dataset can also be helpful to find the customer behavior on churn/PSU metrics

Analyst

Capgemini India
09.2018 - 09.2019
  • During this period, responsibilities were to explore and get familiar with various BigData tools and technologies along with the migration activities that takes place from development to production phase
  • Getting engaged on client calls to better understand the requirement and get involved into various development activities
  • These mainly included understanding the business requirement and designing a customised solution to serve the purpose of business needs
  • To gather and accumulate data from disparate sources, clean it, organize it, process it, and analyze it to extract valuable insights and information
  • Undergo various technology oriented trainings to upskill

Education

Bachelor of Technology - E.C.E

B.P. PODDAR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
01.2018

Skills

  • Expert problem solving
  • Application integration
  • Business analysis
  • Incident management
  • Requirements gathering
  • Cross-functional coordination
  • Technical leadership
  • Team leadership
  • Applications development
  • Project management experience
  • Software architecture design

Languages

Hindi
Native or Bilingual
English
Professional Working

Timeline

Senior Applications Consultant

Capgemini Canada
06.2024 - Current

Applications Consultant 2

Capgemini Canada
06.2022 - 06.2024

Associate Consultant

Capgemini India
10.2020 - 05.2022

Senior Analyst

Capgemini India
10.2019 - 09.2020

Analyst

Capgemini India
09.2018 - 09.2019

Bachelor of Technology - E.C.E

B.P. PODDAR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

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