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Cynthia Vincent

Head Of Engineering

Summary

Experienced and results driven Engineering Leader with over 13 years of experience in data engineering, business intelligence (BI), data warehousing, and AI-driven product development.

Proven expertise in building scalable data platforms, leading high-performing engineering teams, and driving end-to-end software product development.

Adept at stakeholder management, project management, cloud cost optimization, API management, and technical strategy execution.

Developed Product Roadmaps and executed the same towards delivering within limited cost and resources. Currently pursuing a Product Management course at Singapore Management University to enhance product development expertise.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Engineering

GIST Impact
08.2021 - Current
  • Built and led a 30+ member engineering team across Data Engineering, Web Development, Data Science, Analytics, and DevOps.
  • Spearheaded the development of AI-driven sustainability products, optimizing API usability, data platforms, and SaaS solutions.
  • Achieved ISO 27001 and SOC2 Type 2 certification for the organization, ensuring compliance and data security.
  • Worked on building a solution to become a data provider leveraging cloud platforms such as Snowflake.
  • Optimized cloud costs by implementing efficient data processing architectures, reducing expenditures significantly.
  • Designed a centralized data warehouse, serving as the single source of truth for all internal and external data needs.
  • Worked on focusing towards building AI/ML based solutions using RAG based framework to build a product around explainability to analyse company's Impact, risk and opportunities. This eventually leverages the power of LLM's to extract qualitative information from text documents and provide relevant summarizations.
  • Spearheaded the development of a multi-modal LLM system, integrating pdf, text and image capabilities, resulting in a 60% improvement in data collection(qualitative and quantitative) and extraction capabilities which led us to replace incumbents in the sustainability data provider space for a global wealth management platform.
  • Collaborated with sales and product teams to tailor technical solutions to client needs, leading to improved customer satisfaction.
  • Developed high-performing engineering teams through strategic hiring, focused mentoring, and performance management initiatives.
  • Led successful product roadmap development, execution and product launches by coordinating multidisciplinary teams and ensuring timely delivery within budget constraints.

Data Engineering Manager

WebMD
02.2016 - 08.2021
  • Led a 15-member team in data engineering, BI and ML, developing data pipelines and real-time analytics for healthcare applications.
  • Designed and implemented ETL processes and real-time streaming jobs using Snowflake and BigQuery.
  • Developed BI dashboards and data models to support business intelligence efforts and user analytics.
  • Successfully delivered 9+ large-scale projects in the healthcare domain, supporting Univadis web and mobile applications.

ETL and DWH Specialist

StarzPlay
11.2015 - 02.2016

• Created ETL's to pull data from different source systems to the database

• Analyzed the data and built dashboards for the billing and payments domains

• Responsible for estimation, planning, project and team management along with resource planning and cost optimization.

Senior Analyst

Accenture
07.2014 - 12.2014

Junior Applications Developer

ECS Pvt Ltd
05.2013 - 05.2014

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies
12.2010 - 05.2013

Education

No Degree - Product Management

Singapore Management University
Singapore
04.2001 -

PGP-BABI - Business Analytics And Business Intelligence

Great Lakes Executive Learning
India
04.2001 -

Master of Science - Computer Application

SSN College of Engineering
Chennai, India
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Pune
Pune
04.2001 -

Skills

Cross-functional Team Leadership

Product Roadmap and planning

Data Engineering & Business Intelligence

Technical Strategy & Architecture

AI/ML & Web Platform Development

Cloud Cost Optimization

Stakeholder & Project Management

API Management & Data Warehousing

LLM Architecture Design and Optimization

Software

AI/ML: LLM, RAG, Knowledge bases, Amazon Bedrock, QC Agents, Text summarization, Prompt Engineering

Reporting Tools: PowerBI and Tableau

Databases:PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, ELK stack

Cloud: AWS, AZURE

Languages: SQL, R, Python, Java

ETL Tools: Talend, Pentaho, PySpark

Timeline

Head of Engineering

GIST Impact
08.2021 - Current

Data Engineering Manager

WebMD
02.2016 - 08.2021

ETL and DWH Specialist

StarzPlay
11.2015 - 02.2016

Senior Analyst

Accenture
07.2014 - 12.2014

Junior Applications Developer

ECS Pvt Ltd
05.2013 - 05.2014

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies
12.2010 - 05.2013

No Degree - Product Management

Singapore Management University
04.2001 -

PGP-BABI - Business Analytics And Business Intelligence

Great Lakes Executive Learning
04.2001 -

Master of Science - Computer Application

SSN College of Engineering
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Pune
04.2001 -
Cynthia VincentHead Of Engineering