About

Mahesh Poddar is a seasoned Sr Engineering Manager with over 15 years of experience in software development. He has a strong background in building large-scale on-premise data warehouses, cloud data warehouses, and data lakes across various domains including finance, pharmaceutical, payment, and manufacturing. Mahesh is proficient in requirements analysis, design, documentation, and data modeling. He has extensive experience in leading development tracks, managing global projects, mentoring developers, hiring, and team building. Mahesh is currently working as a Sr Engineering Manager in the AdTech Platform Group at Samsung R&D Institute India. He has led various corporate social responsibilities and was instrumental in leading the team for campus recruitment. Mahesh has a strong skill set in data warehousing/ETL tools such as Informatica, Matillion, and Data Stage. He is proficient in databases such as Oracle, DB2, Sybase IQ, SQL, Pl/SQL, Postgres, Cassandra, and Redshift. Mahesh is an AWS Developer Associate Certified professional and has expertise in big data technologies such as Spark, HDFS, Hadoop, HIVE, and Kinesis. He is also skilled in programming languages such as Python, scheduling tools like Airflow and Autosys, operating systems like UNIX and Windows, and data modeling tools such as IBM Infosphere Data Architect. Mahesh has worked with various companies in the past, including Blackhawk and VMware. At Blackhawk, he was responsible for building a cloud-native data lake solution based on Redshift and S3. He also migrated the on-prem ecosystem and data to the data lake. At VMware, Mahesh led the effort of building a modern data pipeline for product analytics and operational efficiency. Mahesh holds an Integrated Master's Degree (UG+PG) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a certificate in Data Engineering from Udacity. He has a diverse tech stack that includes senior software engineering, AWS, SQL, data warehousing, Python, HDFS, Spark, Apache Airflow, big data, Cassandra, Hadoop, ETL, Postgres, mobile, software engineering, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Apache Hive, and Java. With 17.37 years of relevant experience, Mahesh is a highly skilled and experienced professional in the software development industry.