Gopalakrishnan Nambirajan
Irvine
Summary
Drive organizational change towards a data-as-product mindset, democratize data product creation, and enable federated development through empowered teams and platform solutions. Deliver scalable engineering products that foster innovation, collaboration, and trust.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Engineering Lead
Capital Group
02.2021 - Current
- Built and operated datalake house platforms using Azure and AWS for 20+ product engineering groups across 3 business units.
- Mentored teams in Infrastructure as Code for Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, and Dremio, improving efficiency by 30%.
- Established passporting process to vend Databricks, Unity Catalog, Apache airflow and Dremio as a package to enable “Lakehouse in box” for application groups to deliver products aligning with enterprise Data Excellence Program, creating and supporting 100+ workspaces.
- Led RFP development and vendor selection to reduce legacy technology TCO, hydrate foundational data products in Caspian.
- Partnered with senior leaders to design a comprehensive curriculum for data product creation and operational workflows. Established a paved technology stack to upskill and certify developers, enabling federated development and advancing the enterprise-wide Data Excellence Program.
- Designed and delivered the Intelligence HUB for executive client reporting, achieving sub-5 second performance benchmarks and reporting on $2.7T AUM, $100B Sales, 155K Sellers, and 1,000+ products.
- Advanced adoption of Dremio as the semantic layer, accelerating analytics.
- Led TACO territory data model adoption for lake shore application, critical for ITG DORIS retirement. Remodel Financial Transaction to capture both Advisor and team details at transaction grain. Infrastructure setup and MVP for marketplace using DataHub (open source) as data catalog. Operationalize Unity catalog workspaces in Azure databricks.
Senior Data Engineer
Nike (through Kforce)
04.2019 - 10.2020
- Led redesign and implementation of consumer services lake house for performance insights and forecasting, supporting $230M+ in annual revenue.
- Established guiding principles to integrate new channels for CRM (Salesforce) and social media (Sprinklr).
Data Engineer
Ally Financial (through Kforce)
04.2016 - 04.2019
- Designed and implemented MDM solutions for customer analytics.
- Developed compliance frameworks for TCPA and GDPR, streamlining opt-out processing.
IT Analyst
State Farm Insurance (through TCS)
12.2010 - 04.2016
- Developed enterprise data quality and exception management frameworks.
- Supported database validation applications for IMS and DB2.
Education
Bachelors - Computer Science and Engineering
SRM Valliammai Engineering College
Skills
- AWS & Azure
- Distributed Systems
- GenAI
- Python
- Rust
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Airflow
- Databricks
- Dremio
- DBT
- Data Modeling
Certification
AWS solutions architect associate
CONTACT
- Email: gopalan11@yahoo.com
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gopalakrishnannambirajan
- Phone: (309) 533-4892
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
- Build Effective Teams
- Drive Results
- Strategic Mindset
- Global Perspective
- Cultivate Innovation
- Business Insights
Timeline
Engineering Lead
Capital Group
02.2021 - Current
Senior Data Engineer
Nike (through Kforce)
04.2019 - 10.2020
Data Engineer
Ally Financial (through Kforce)
04.2016 - 04.2019
IT Analyst
State Farm Insurance (through TCS)
12.2010 - 04.2016
Bachelors - Computer Science and Engineering
SRM Valliammai Engineering College