Vignesh Asokan

Vignesh Asokan

Lead Data Engineer | Databricks | Snowflake | AWS | Informatica
India
Tamil, Hindi, English

About Me

Lead Data Engineer with 7+ years of experience building and optimizing cloud-native data platforms across retail and healthcare. Proven expertise in Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, and Informatica, with a record of leading 1…

Experience

Senior Data Engineer

Tiger Analytics, Chennai
Jul 2022 - Present · 4 years

Led and mentored a 10-member data engineering team, reducing onboarding time by 25% and accelerating delivery velocity through agile coaching.
Architected scalable data platforms on Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS, reducing reporting latency by 30% and enabling near real-time executive dashboards.
Directed delivery of 5+ enterprise reporting platforms, supporting 5,000+ stakeholders with 100% on-time releases and improving decision-making speed by 25%.
Boosted analytics adoption across business and product teams by 40%, ensuring data-driven insights guided critical strategic initiatives.
Cut cloud spend by 20% through query tuning and resource governance, saving significant annual costs while enhancing pipeline performance and SLA compliance.

Senior Data Engineer

Tiger Analytics, Chennai
Jul 2022 - Present · 4 years

Led and mentored a 10-member data engineering team, reducing onboarding time by 25% and accelerating delivery velocity through agile coaching., Architected scalable data platforms on Databricks, Snowflake, and AWS, reducing reporting latency by 30% and enabling near real-time executive dashboards., Directed delivery of 5+ enterprise reporting platforms, supporting 5,000+ stakeholders with 100% on-time releases and improving decision-making speed by 25%., Boosted analytics adoption across business and product teams by 40%, ensuring data-driven insights guided critical strategic initiatives., Cut cloud spend by 20% through query tuning and resource governance, saving significant annual costs while enhancing pipeline performance and SLA compliance.

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture, Chennai
Feb 2018 - Jul 2022 · 4 years 5 months

Led migration of 1,000+ ETL pipelines and 20+ databases from on-premise to Snowflake and IICS, reducing infrastructure costs by 20% and enabling cloud scalability.
Engineered cloud-native ETL pipelines with embedded data quality frameworks, ensuring reliable, auditable, and compliant data delivery for enterprise reporting.
Optimized ETL workflows for 40% faster runtimes, reducing batch processing windows by 6 hours and enabling faster daily business reporting.
Collaborated with business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable data solutions, improving availability and usability of reporting platforms.
Mentored junior engineers and contributed to architecture governance, improving team productivity by 25% and reducing rework through best practice adoption.

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture, Chennai
Feb 2018 - Jul 2022 · 4 years 4 months

Led migration of 1,000+ ETL pipelines and 20+ databases from on-premise to Snowflake and IICS, reducing infrastructure costs by 20% and enabling cloud scalability., Engineered cloud-native ETL pipelines with embedded data quality frameworks, ensuring reliable, auditable, and compliant data delivery for enterprise reporting., Optimized ETL workflows for 40% faster runtimes, reducing batch processing windows by 6 hours and enabling faster daily business reporting., Collaborated with business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable data solutions, improving availability and usability of reporting platforms., Mentored junior engineers and contributed to architecture governance, improving team productivity by 25% and reducing rework through best practice adoption.

Certifications

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate

Databricks · Chennai, India · 2024

Informatica Certified Professional – IICS

Informatica · Chennai, India · 2021

Skills

Data Engineering: Databricks (PySpark Delta Lake Databricks Genie – Generative AI) Snowflake Informatica IICS ETL Big Data Pipelines Data Integration Programming & Querying: Python SQL (Optimization Query Tuning Advanced SQL) Cloud Platforms: AWS (S3 Redshift EC2) Cloud Data Warehousing Data Architecture: Data Modeling Dimensional Modeling Data Lakehouse Orchestration Data Governance DevOps & Tools: Git CI/CD Apache Airflow Jenkins JIRA Agile/Scrum Leadership: Team Mentoring Architecture Governance Stakeholder Engagement Agile Delivery Cross-Functional Collaboration Domain Knowledge: Retail Healthcare Business Intelligence Analytics Engineering Databricks PySpark Delta Lake Databricks Genie Generative AI Snowflake Informatica IICS ETL Big Data Pipelines Data Integration Python SQL Query Optimization Query Tuning Advanced SQL AWS S3 Redshift EC2 Cloud Data Warehousing Data Modeling Dimensional Modeling Data Lakehouse Orchestration Data Governance Git CI/CD Apache Airflow Jenkins JIRA Agile Scrum Team Mentoring Architecture Governance Stakeholder Engagement Agile Delivery Cross-Functional Collaboration
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