Kannan Tamilraj

Data Scientist
5years in Analytics
6years in tech
C1English
Bachelor’sMadras Institute of Technology

Overview

Senior data engineering professional with 19+ years of IT experience, specializing in cloud data engineering across Azure and AWS. Has led enterprise data platform migration to Databricks and built ETL/ELT pipelines with PySpark, Spark SQL, and Delta Lake. Focuses on data quality controls, source-to-target validation, and performance optimization for reliable analytics delivery.

Timeline

Senior Data Engineer / Architect · Lead
Wipro Ltd · Full-Time
Nov 2025 to Present 1 Year Louisville In office
Support the migration of enterprise data platforms from Azure Synapse Analytics and on-premises data warehouses to Databricks. Develop and migrate ETL/ELT pipelines using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Databricks, translating existing SQL logic into Spark workflows. Implement Delta Lake processing with source-to-target validation, reconciliation, and data-quality checks to improve reliability of delivered data.
pySpark
Spark
Databricks
Delta Lake
SQL
Snowflake
Azure
Data Engineer II · Middle
Northwest Bank · Full-Time
Nov 2022 to Nov 2025 3 Years Columbus In office
Designed and maintained scalable data architectures for automated ingestion, security, compliance, and governance. Built ETL pipelines using Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Factory to support downstream analytics. Implemented data validation and cleansing frameworks and monitored pipeline and SQL performance to support reliable production execution and continuous improvement.
Databricks
Azure
Azure Data Factory
Senior Data Engineer I · Senior
Nexient LLC · Full-Time
Apr 2021 to Nov 2022 1 Year 7 Months Dublin In office
Translated business requirements into data queries and ETL workflows, including data gathering, cleansing, and preparation for reporting and analysis. Developed scalable data pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Apache Spark and optimized SQL queries to improve transformation accuracy and reliability. Implemented event-driven and serverless workflows with Azure Functions and AWS Lambda, and added data-quality testing and monitoring for pipeline execution.
Azure Data Factory
Spark
Python
AWS Lambda
SQL
Senior Software Engineer · Senior
Mastech Digital · Full-Time
Feb 2020 to Apr 2021 1 Year 2 Months In office
Developed Python integrations with Salesforce REST APIs to automate CRM case and task workflows. Built and maintained pipelines that ingest multi-source data into Snowflake using Python, SQL, and PySpark for centralized reporting. Created and tuned SQL queries and stored procedures, implemented Pytest unit tests, and used Airflow and AWS services to support reliable scheduled processing.
Python
pySpark
SQL
Snowflake
Airflow
AWS
MySQL
Madras Institute of Technology
Bachelor's Degree · Electronics Engineering
Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Technical skills

Languages
7
SQL
Python
C++
Java
Scala
COBOL
C
DevOps
3
AWS
Azure
AWS Lambda
Databases
4
Snowflake
MySQL
Databricks
Delta Lake
Other
12
Spark
Airflow
Azure Data Factory
pySpark
Amazon S3
Pytest
Db2
Rest API
Prefect
Apache HTTP Server
CICS
ETL/ELT

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Work permits
United States
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