KUNAL TIWARY
Data And Machine Learning Engineering
Sydney,NSW
Summary
Seasoned engineering leader adept at seamlessly integrating project technical aspects and making information relatable to non-technical personnel. Experienced leader and program manager with
total 16-year history in software development including 6-year history in data and machine learning. Clear communicator, decision maker and problem solver.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead Data Engineer
ThoughtWorks
Sydney, NSW
12.2021 - 03.2023
- Generated more business with a telecom start-up client through exceeding client's expectations in building cloud infrastructure, use case prioritization, and in building a thin slice use case in working state within a few weeks while providing high visibility throughout the project.
- Automated and improved quality of reporting by successfully building a BI reporting stack for a telecom start-up on Azure using cloud-native services from ground up which unsurfaced new insights and enabled and enriched datasets to find trends and patterns.
- Assisted a leading media streaming client to obtain targeted funding for data mesh adoption through providing detailed recommendation on architectural changes, team shapes and technical processes resulting from a data mesh technical assessment covering technology, people and process review.
- Enabled a financial services client to accelerate value from data across business departments through building a data mesh architecture using Azure cloud services which enabled them to leverage and scale the data mesh organization-wide.
- Enabled an internet publishing client to automate content detection using machine learning on AWS cloud adopting an event-driven architecture while still using the SME knowledge of their trust and safety team to keep the human in the loop.
Senior Data Engineer
Quantium
Sydney, NSW
06.2017 - 11.2021
- Created a new retail analytics product offering to increase product revenue with small and mid-tier retail organizations by using smart technology architecture ideas to achieve certain SLAs on data availabilities that powers the product. A beta version was successfully released to allow trialing with user groups and get early feedback.
- Enabled enriched transactions and customer attributes deployed globally at various banks through co-development of a banking data product involving Terabyte scale datasets.
- Enabled creation of data pipelines and complex analytics queries through use of Apache Spark with Scala on MapR Hadoop distribution and Snowflake cloud data warehouse operating on multi-billion rows.
- Created reusable code components while using multi-tenancy, CI/CD, orchestration, data quality, performance and stability through end-to-end development and operational success of data analytics pipelines.
Senior Software Engineer
Red Balloon
Sydney, NSW
01.2016 - 05.2017
- Successfully migrated completely out of legacy B2B platform in 6 months by taking ownership and iteratively building different parts of the application in collaboration with suppliers and product team after several unsuccessful attempts to rebuild the platform using external vendors
- Exposed functionalities as REST APIs to create a scalable backend deployed on cloud infrastructure
- Enabled connectivity with partners via partner APIs and improved B2C website performance
Technical Manager
British Telecom
India
02.2015 - 12.2016
- Line managed a team of 6 in consumer retail line of business as a hands-on technical manager.
- Built credibility of the team with overseas team and gained momentum on key work streams by rebuilding areas the squad was responsible for by applying modern engineering methods and architecture and demonstrating working product to key stakeholders.
Technical Lead
Monsanto
India
04.2011 - 02.2015
- Analysis, design, development and maintenance of various agricultural products used in the R&D pipeline where software scientists and breeders are the end-users.
- Achieved expansion for my team into multiple new areas of work by my proactive involvement and collaboration with overseas teams winning credibility with stakeholders and seizing a technical leadership opportunity involving overseas travel and ultimately driving cost savings for the organization.
Senior Software Engineer
Manthan Systems
India
01.2010 - 04.2011
- Design and development of award-winning Supplier Portal and Analytics (SPA – supplier collaboration portal for retailers) product from concept to production.
- Contributed to developing a working beta version of a new product within 3 months and subsequently winning a contract for the product with a large APAC retailer by prototyping new technologies to solve the problems in a very tight timeframe taking guidance from the architect on the team.
Senior Software Engineer
Sapient Corporation
India
09.2007 - 01.2010
- Developed multiple e-commerce platforms for large online stores across US and UK.
- Worked on teams to develop web-based applications in different domains such as e-commerce, banking and travel with different technology stack
Software Engineer
PK4 Technologies
India
01.2006 - 09.2009
- Worked on delivering a CRM solution for the largest stem cell bank in India and assisted the company in pre-sales activities.
- Worked on customization of various web-based products like CRM, email groupware, reporting tool and workflow tool built on Java platform
Education
Bachelor of Software Systems - Computer Science And Programming
IP University
India 06.2000 - 06.2004
Skills
Software Engineering
Additional Information
- Technical blog writer in the data engineering space
- Public speaker on topics such as engineering architectures in local and international forums
- Key contributor to an ML competency assessment with a major cloud provider at Thoughtworks which resulted in a successful partnership
- Hosted and contributed to internal ML community and technology talks
- Active participant in Data and ML groups by answering technical questions in global chat groups
Timeline
Lead Data Engineer
ThoughtWorks
12.2021 - 03.2023
Senior Data Engineer
Quantium
06.2017 - 11.2021
Senior Software Engineer
Red Balloon
01.2016 - 05.2017
Technical Manager
British Telecom
02.2015 - 12.2016
Technical Lead
Monsanto
04.2011 - 02.2015
Senior Software Engineer
Manthan Systems
01.2010 - 04.2011
Senior Software Engineer
Sapient Corporation
09.2007 - 01.2010
Software Engineer
PK4 Technologies
01.2006 - 09.2009
Bachelor of Software Systems - Computer Science And Programming
IP University
06.2000 - 06.2004
Technical Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure (GCP in non-production setting)
- Data Infrastructure and technologies: Databricks, Apache Spark, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, Terraform, AWS CDK
- Machine Learning: XGBoost (using Scala), scikit-learn, AWS Sagemaker, Watchful data labeling, GCP ML APIs
- Programming Languages: Scala, Python, Java, SQL
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