About

Manu Chaudhary is a Lead Data Engineer with over 7 years and 6 months of experience in the data engineering field. He is currently working at Paytm, a leading fintech company, as a Technical Lead for their Central Data Platform. Manu has experience with the Big Data ecosystem, including Hive, Spark, Sqoop, Map-Reduce, and Kafka. He is also proficient in Python, Scala, Java, and Shell Scripting. Manu is a Databricks certified Apache Spark 3.X developer and an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. He has good domain knowledge of the Telecom and Banking industry and has hands-on experience in process optimization. Manu has worked on Waterfall and Agile Methodologies and has been involved in requirement gathering and supporting business users with Big Data and Business Intelligence solutions. In his current role at Paytm, Manu has migrated a legacy-based system to a modernized cloud-based system on AWS. He processes big data on a daily basis to generate several reports such as Finance reports, Reconciliation reports, merchant settlement reports (Batch and on-demand), etc. Manu's role at Paytm is that of a Data Engineer. Before joining Paytm, Manu worked as a Software Engineer II B at Bank of America, where he was part of a Risk Analytics Platform (RAP) team that facilitated the end-to-end model execution utilizing provisioned data sources and providing advanced analytical and reporting capabilities to downstream users. He also worked as an Associate at Cognizant, where he worked on a project that monitored adherence to regulations in different business processes of a Bank with the use of KRI (Key Risk Identification) logic and accordingly generated exception reports. Manu has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Moradabad Institute of Technology, Moradabad. His tech stack includes Data Engineering, Senior Software Engineer, AWS, SQL, Big Data, Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Software Engineer, Python, Scala, Java, and Apache Hive. With relevant experience of 8.02 years, Manu Chaudhary is an experienced and skilled Lead Data Engineer in the fintech industry.