Principal Engineer at BCG, helping Fortune 500 enterprises turn ambitious AI and data strategies into systems that actually ship — and keep shipping after the consultants leave.
Experience
2022 — Now
New York, United States
Lead Enterprise Agentic AI, knowledge graph, and data architecture engagements for Fortune 500 clients — owning delivery from architecture design through production rollout.
𝗔𝗜 & 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀
→ Serve as delivery experience coach for BCG's Enterprise Agentic AI GraphRAG program — standardizing architecture patterns, retrieval strategies, and evaluation frameworks across 3 concurrent client engagements
→ Architect production RAG and Agentic systems with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Haystack — covering orchestration, hybrid retrieval, and guardrails — using OpenAI GPT and Llama 2 across client stacks
→ Design enterprise taxonomy and ontology layers (RDF/OWL/SHACL in Protégé), deployed as Neo4j knowledge graphs powering GraphRAG retrieval — grounding LLM answers in governed enterprise semantics
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 & 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺
→ Leading a team of 5 to 9 engineers, modernizing a global freight & logistics platform — integrating Blue Yonder, Oracle TMS, and WMS into Azure Databricks + Snowflake + CosmosDB, replacing 4 legacy interfaces
→ Architected financial data modernization and forecast analytics replacing legacy on-prem stacks with cloud-native pipelines — supporting $26M in forecasted revenue across all 4 business units
→ Delivered IoT data platforms for biomedical and industrial clients enabling near-real-time global analytics.
𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽
→ Run multiple parallel workstreams — resolving ambiguity, dependencies, and resource constraints to deliver on committed dates
→ Coach and mentor senior engineers across engagements; partner with C-suite on KPI definition and architecture trade-offs
Stack: LangChain · LlamaIndex · Haystack · PyTorch · TensorFlow · Protégé · RDF · OWL · SPARQL · Neo4j · Snowflake · Databricks · BigQuery · Spark · Kafka · Airflow · AWS · Azure · GCP · TOGAF ADM
2019 — 2022
New York, New York
Led big data engineering engagements across industries — owning data modeling, pipeline architecture, and Agile delivery for Fortune 500 clients. SME across 4 cloud MPP platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery).
𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱
→ Led a team of 9 contract developers transforming a retail department store's financial forecasting on GCP — replaced Oracle EBS (GL/AP/PO/COA, Sales, Marketing, HRM, HCM, Budgeting) with BigQuery, Dataproc, Anaplan, and PowerBI self-service reporting
→ Engineered Snowflake EDW + data marts on Azure Databricks for a global multi-brand QSR operator — consolidating 8 regional data sources for unified financial and operational analytics
→ Built near-real-time competitive pricing for a telecom client — web scraping → MongoDB → Snowpipe/Snowflake → Tableau, refreshing pricing intelligence at less than a second latency
→ Led EDW rebuild and cloud migration for a hospitality retailer — legacy SQL → Azure Synapse/ADLS/ADF, decommissioning 6 legacy systems
→ Delivered global IT architecture assessment for a cosmetics company — current/target state analysis, SIPOC, gap analysis, cloud migration roadmap, and full EA artifacts driving transformation program
→ Built customer retention data platform for a Mexico cinema chain on AWS (Redshift, EMR, Glue, Airflow, Spark, SFMC) feeding PowerBI and Tableau dashboards
→ Delivered fuel pricing analytics platform for a Calgary energy company on AWS Redshift — integrating 3rd-party market and demographic data
→ Architected biomedical IoT data storage and retrieval recommendation enabling global analytics scale
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱
→ Owned full data modeling lifecycle — data lake → conceptual → logical → physical — across Inmon, Kimball, and Data Vault methodologies
→ Defined pipeline orchestration and automation architecture across multiple integration platforms
→ Scaled Agile practice across a fast-paced big data engineering team
2012 — 2019
New York City Metropolitan Area
Owned database engineering and SharePoint architecture for a premier independent financial advisory firm over a 7-year tenure — supporting M&A advisory, restructuring, and asset management practices.
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
→ Mentored and led a 5-developer team — driving query optimization, performance tuning, code review, and change control across the application development lifecycle
→ Initiated proof-of-concept projects consolidating database estate — cutting licensing cost and standardizing on a documented server roadmap
→ Architected high-availability SQL Server infrastructure (Always-On, mirroring, replication, WSFC clusters) with documented RPO/RTO SLAs
𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 & 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱
→ Architected the firm's first Big Data initiative on AWS — provisioning EC2/S3, implementing Kafka, Storm, and Kinesis streaming, and operating Lambda, Athena, Redshift, and RDS Aurora
→ Built ingestion pipelines into S3, DynamoDB, and Redshift; deployed Apache NiFi, Informatica, Talend, and SSIS for ETL
→ Stood up MongoDB, MySQL, SOLR, HBase, Spark, and Hadoop HDFS on AWS as the foundation for analytics workloads
𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 & 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
→ Designed and deployed a load-balanced SharePoint 2013 farm fully provisioned via PowerShell on Windows 2012 + SQL Server 2014 HA Cluster
→ Led firm-wide SharePoint upgrades (2007 → 2010 → 2013 → 2016) with zero unplanned downtime
→ Designed and shipped an enterprise Change Management Control application on SharePoint/InfoPath/approval workflows
→ Coordinated 5-node Nutanix storage system deployment with vendor team — owning Prism configuration and DR replication setup
Stack: SQL Server · Oracle · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · AWS · Kafka · Spark · Hadoop · NiFi · SharePoint · PowerShell · Tableau · QlikView · PowerBI
2008 — 2012
New york, NY
Lead database systems engineer for a 24/7 global shared services IT department at a leading alternative asset manager — managed a 3-DBA team across SQL Server and Oracle estates.
𝗦𝗤𝗟 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲
→ Owned 100+ SQL Server instances across stage and production — defining the corporate database roadmap, standards, and best practices
→ Architected and installed multi-node, multi-instance production failover cluster infrastructure with synchronous and asynchronous mirroring
→ Designed scale-out, load-balanced SSRS reporting solution
→ Documented SLAs (RPO/RTO) and DR replication strategies for full-infrastructure, instance-only, and database-only failover scenarios
→ Served as 24/7 tier-3 on-call lead — owning major incident management and resolution
𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁
→ Designed, deployed, and maintained a scaled-out SharePoint 2007/2010 production farm — initial 8 TB, planned to grow to 32 TB
→ Managed stage/prod farms (4 WFE + 3 App + 2 Search servers) backed by multi-node SQL failover cluster
→ Configured embedded SQL Server Reporting Services and managed SharePoint backup/restore via AvePoint and native SQL tooling
→ Installed and maintained DR failover solution for SharePoint
𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝟭𝟭𝗴
→ Architected and deployed Oracle 11g standalone, RAC, and Data Guard configurations across Dev/Test/Prod
→ Built physical standby DR using Data Guard; managed cloning to make production data available for Test and Dev
→ Implemented RMAN backup/recovery and Data Pump logical backup workflows; developed PL/SQL procedures, packages, triggers, and views
𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽
→ Interviewed and hired contractors and team members; produced runbooks, how-to guides, and FAQ documentation for the team
→ Worked with security and compliance on change management, patch management, and audit
2007 — 2008
SQL Server DBA for a global executive search firm — focused on production maintenance, server migration, and consolidation.
→ Owned production database code change and quality control across the SQL estate
→ Verified daily and hourly backups; monitored replication, log shipping, error logs, and Windows event logs
→ Benchmarked SQL Server performance statistics and recommended query optimizations
→ Led DTS-to-SSIS ETL conversion and migration as part of platform modernization
→ Supported .NET production application deployment and configuration
Education
University of Madras