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Krithika Arulgnanam

Summary

Professional technical leader with over 10 years of expertise in SAS , Spark(PySpark), Python with proven ability to spearhead complex projects and drive innovative solutions. Strong emphasis on team collaboration and delivering results in dynamic environments. Known for adaptability and reliability. Skilled in coding, debugging, and optimizing performance. Background in Retail Banking - Credit Cards with experience in managing customer data and analyzing requirements.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Lead – Data Engineer

HCL Technologies
01.2022 - Current

Project: DBS Bank - Migration from Legacy System to Big Data Environment (ADA)


  • Migrated legacy System to the ADA environment using a Spark(PySpark) frame work, enhancing data processing efficiency and handling huge volumes of data for real-time and batch operations.
  • Experience in data analysis and statistical modeling including data extraction, manipulation and validation techniques, writing macros and reporting on various projects for financial and banking industry using Teradata, SAS, SQL Server, Python, PySpark , QlikView/Qliksense and CDSW
  • Involved migration projects in SAS to the ADA using a Spark(PySpark) frame work, enhancing data processing efficiency and handling huge volume of data for real-time and batch operations
  • Leveraged Spark, SQL and PResto to transform raw data from Data Lake to Data Mart and Data Warehouse for efficient storage and analytics support
  • Rewiring from BIP teradata to ADA(Big Data) Environment used tech stack are Sparkola, SQL,SAS, Presto, Collibra
  • Facilitated the transition from teradata to the ADA environment by adapting SAS scripts for Hive compatibility and optimizing queries with Presto
  • Experience in offloading SAS scripts to Sparkola platform with SQL, Scala and Python in both Analytical cluster and operational cluster
  • Created metadata for the required report contains business description of each attribute, loading mode, frequency
  • Involved in SAS2PY project includes conversion, testing and reconciliation with existing SAS data
  • Fixed a long-standing issue with an automated macro that generated incorrect SQL queries, improving accuracy and reducing errors by 100%
  • Verified rewired code by reconciling records between BIP and ADA tables to ensure data quality and accuracy in the ADA Environment
  • Worked on hive framework through Apache superset to query in presto sql
  • Experience working in Cloudera Machine Learning (CML) which securely computation on data in Hadoop clusters using python

IT Analyst

TATA Consultancy Services Ltd.
02.2013 - 12.2021

Project: Retail CITI credit cards for north America

  • Worked as a Lead developer onshore at CITI Bank Texas, USA responsible for overseeing a group of 12 SAS programmers
  • Interaction with clients to channelize business requirements and producing defect free deliverables
  • Handling high priority requests for a end client to identify and analyze critical data issues impacting production
  • Monitoring Jobs transmitted to client servers to check missed service level agreements or business expectations. Ensure the overall quality of the project


Project: USA retail CITI Bank customer data on demand request.

  • Involves Developing, Reporting, Delivering, Scheduling, Monitoring the codes
  • Collaborated with Data managers to understand reporting needs and delivered tailored solutions that enhance data management and visualization
  • Developed UNIX shell scripts for automating and executing SAS batch files on UNIX
  • Involved in optimization of SAS programs and created new SAS programs using Macros to reduce the job run time and improve the consistency of results
  • Created remote SAS sessions to run the jobs in parallel mode to cut off the extraction time as the datasets were generated simultaneously
  • Generated highly customized reports in the form of listing ,HTML, PDF using ODS,PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE and PROC SQL
  • Creating waterfall reports, analyzing data and creating ad-hoc's on deliverables
  • Created Non-monetary and Monetary files for the business purpose such as customer transactions, change requests, etc


Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics

Anna University
05.2012

Skills

  • SAS
  • PySpark
  • Python
  • SQL
  • QlikView/Qlik Sense
  • Big data/ Teradata
  • Tableau
  • Cloudera Machine Language

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 07/12/91
  • Gender: Female
  • Nationality: India
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Visa Status: Employment Visa
  • Languages: English ,Tamil, Telugu

References

Ajanta Nayak, Senior Vice President, DBS, Singapore

ajantanayak@dbs.com and  linkedin.com/in/ajanta-nayak-419a8715


Ajanta was my DBS client manager while I worked as a data engineer from 2022.

Timeline

Technical Lead – Data Engineer

HCL Technologies
01.2022 - Current

IT Analyst

TATA Consultancy Services Ltd.
02.2013 - 12.2021

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics

Anna University
Krithika Arulgnanam