About

Rakesh Varma K is a Principal Solution Architect with over 18 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in Data & Analytics. He is an expert in areas such as Data Governance, Data Security, Data Integration, Data Quality, and Analytics on Cloud and On-Premise. Rakesh has implemented Data Governance use cases to meet government regulations like GDPR, PII, CCPA, BCBS 239, among others. Currently working as a Principal Customer Success Solution Architect at Informatica, Rakesh is responsible for ensuring the successful adoption of Informatica Data Products, mapping use cases with product features for better implementation and achieving ROI on customer investments. He is a skilled manager with experience in efficiently managing technical delivery from the front and with large teams. Rakesh has a 360-degree view of implementation, from measuring Data Quality, Lineage (Business/Technical/System), Integration, Security, and Analytics. He also supports enterprise-level Data Governance initiatives with good functional and strong technical knowledge. He has created management dashboards/reports on Salesforce, Tableau, and PowerBI. In his past roles, Rakesh worked as an Informatica Big Data Management and Enterprise Data Catalog Technical Manager at Infosys, where he industrialized BDM by implementing DevOps around BDM and integrated BDM/EDC with CDL, HDP, Tableau, S3 Buckets, Rest API, Data Sheets, among others. He also worked as a BI & Siebel Consultant at IPSoft, where he managed two customers with a team of six engineers to cover 24*7 all days to help them maintain high availability environments, deployments, and upgrades. Rakesh holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from Berhampur University. He is proficient in technologies such as AWS, Salesforce, Big Data, Integration, Data Engineering, Hadoop, HDFS, Spark, DevOps, and Apache Hive. Rakesh has 0.27 years of relevant experience. He is an effective communicator and can handle customer interactions with top-mid range management and technical staff.