Building AI-powered data systems that go beyond pipelines — where Data Engineering meets Intelligence.
📍 Bengaluru, India | 📧 krishnarajivnair@gmail.com |
Senior Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience architecting production-grade data pipelines, DataOps monitoring frameworks, and cloud cost optimisation solutions on GCP and Snowflake — for a Fortune 500 grocery retailer (Albertsons Companies).
- 💰 Delivered $250K+ in annualised cost savings through Snowflake optimisation (GrokStar Award Q3 2023)
- 📉 Reduced production incidents by ~80% via standardised DAG monitoring across 2,000+ DAGs and 1,000+ Dataflow pipelines
- 🤖 Architected DoRRA — a GenAI-powered DataOps assistant using Gemini & Vertex AI — enabling natural-language incident querying and accelerating L1/L2 resolution
- 🚀 Offshore Release Manager with zero rollback incidents across all Snowflake production deployments
- 👥 Mentor to 4+ engineers | Interview Panelist | Learning Coordinator
Data Engineering & Pipelines
Python SQL BigQuery Snowflake Dataflow Airflow / Cloud Composer Pub/Sub Kafka dbt
Cloud Platforms
Google Cloud Platform Snowflake Azure AWS
DataOps & Observability
DAG Monitoring Pipeline Observability Incident Management RCA ServiceNow Protegrity
Snowflake Expertise
Snowpipe Streams & Tasks SCD Type 1 & 2 Stored Procedures Cost Optimisation Query Optimisation Clustering Strategy
GenAI & ML
Vertex AI Gemini LLM Integration RAG Snowflake Cortex MCP Servers Prompt Engineering
Other
Power BI Flask Linux & Shell Scripting CI/CD Schema Evolution Data Governance
🥇 GrokStar Award Q3 2023 — Leadership and excellence in cloud cost optimisation across Fortune 500 client engagement
🎖️ Multiple client appreciations — DAG monitoring standardisation and incident reduction across 11 business domains
📌 Selected as Interview Panelist & Learning Coordinator — contributing to hiring quality and team capability development
