About

Abhinav Rai is a seasoned Senior Manager 1 - Data Engineering at Walmart Global Tech India with over 10 years of experience in the field. He has a strong background in data engineering, integration, AWS, HDFS, Python, Hadoop, ETL, Web, and QA. Abhinav has a proven track record of leveraging analytics to drive business development, productivity, and process improvement. Abhinav is currently serving as a technical liaison, supporting engineering, management, and quality assurance at Walmart. He is responsible for maintaining project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments. Abhinav manages a 9-member project team in an Agile environment, realizing success through the application of SDLC methodologies and exceptional leadership skills. He is also responsible for communicating project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors. Abhinav has previously worked at General Electric as a Data Engineer, where he was responsible for driving GE Aviation Data Management, including analytics, MDM, governance, data quality, and metadata management across GE. In addition, he delivered analytics/data integration on GE Aviation's Datalake, generated detailed studies on potential third-party data handling solutions, and designed compliance frameworks for multi-site data warehousing efforts to verify conformity with data security guidelines. Abhinav created data pipelines ETL/ELT to process real-time data from multiple source systems into GE Aviation Datalake and published data to multiple downstream applications to drive GE Equipment business. Prior to his role at General Electric, Abhinav worked as an Analyst at Principal Financial Group, where he validated results and performed quality assurance to assess the accuracy of data. He applied his knowledge of data modeling and statistical analysis to note trends and draw conclusions. He also interacted with end-users and functional analysts to identify and develop Business Specification Documents and transform them into technical requirements. Abhinav holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Atria Institute of Technology and Visvesvaraya Technological University. He also holds certificates in PCM and Science from City Montessori School.