About

Samarth Gahire is an experienced Engineering Manager with over 12 years of experience, including 9+ years working with Big Data technologies and 6+ years in leadership roles as a technical lead and engineering manager. He has hands-on experience with Hadoop, Snowflake, RedShift, Cassandra, Python, and Java, and has worked on a product involving the storage and processing of terabytes of data on a daily basis. He is also experienced with ETL and BI tools like Pentaho and Looker, as well as dev-ops tools and technologies around AWS, with exposure to similar stacks in GCP and Azure. Currently, Samarth is an Engineering Manager at Byju's, where he manages three different product teams, including data engineers, backend, frontend, and support function while closely working with Product, Academic, and Business teams. He has scaled up the Data team and built the application team from scratch for Byju’s Tuition Centre, setting up annual and quarterly roadmap/milestones for business deliveries as well as enhancing platform capabilities. He has also planned and executed adding ingestion, governance, and discovery elements of the data pipeline while taking care of cost optimization along the way. Additionally, he has set up the on-call process for the platform and support team for B2C products and has set up the right engineering as well as agile process for better visibility for engineers as well as stakeholders. In his past roles, Samarth has worked as an Engineering Manager and Technical Team Lead at Talentica, where he worked on projects involving Snowflake, Pentaho, Looker, ML, Microservices, AWS, GCP, and Python. He has also worked on data modeling, cost optimization, data collection, and ingestion. He has bootstrapped a custom reporting dashboard using Javascript, Java, and Redshift (AWS) and has set up the infrastructure security and application security process with DevOps and QA teams. Samarth holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the College of Engineering Pune and completed his HSC in Science Stream from RBNB College Shrirampur (2005). His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AWS, test, Snowflake, Microservices, GCP, DevOps, Integration, HDFS, Puppet, Python, Spark, Apache Airflow, Java, CI/CD, Big Data, Docker, Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka, ETL, Azure, Frontend, Backend, QA, Javascript, ML, Data