About

Saru Arora is a Lead Data Engineer/BI Architect with over 6 years of experience in planning and executing the governance of AWS & GCP cloud adoption, IT transformations, cloud migrations, and designing end-to-end solutions from scalable and optimized ETL Data Pipelines. He has worked in various domains including FMCG, Healthcare, FinTech, Finance, Pharma Life Sciences, Customer Services, and Retail. Saru is proficient in programming languages such as SQL, Python, Pyspark, and PowerShell. He has experience with big data frameworks like Apache Spark, Kafka, and Kinesis, and databases such as MySQL, MS SQL, PostGreSQL, Cassandra, HBase, and ElasticSearch. He is also skilled in AWS technologies including s3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, EC2, Cloudwatch, EMR, and Quicksight, as well as GCP Technologies like BigQuery, Cloud Storage, DataFlow, and DataProc. Saru has experience with schedulers such as Apache Airflow and Cloud Scheduler, and reporting/visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Amazon Quicksight, Git, Bit bucket, and Agile. Saru has delivered 6 large-scale, high-volume data warehousing, data visualization, and data analytics projects using Agile methodologies. He has managed a 5-member cross-functional team with strategic leadership, verbal & interpersonal ability, communication, and met strict project timelines. He has also created high impact solutions by reducing infrastructure cost to 50% through robust, scalable cloud data architecture. Saru is proficient in program management, program planning, delivery assurance and verification, risk mitigation planning, and stakeholder management. Saru has designed data analysis reports, dashboards, KPIs, and business insights using Tableau, PowerBI. He is proficient in data modeling, data warehousing, OLAP/OLTP cubes, multi-dimensional and tabular models using SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), and data integration/migration using ETL Tool- SSIS. Saru is aspiring and interested in getting into or promoting into a role where he can clearly demonstrate his leadership and product management qualities. He is currently working as a Data Engineer/BI Lead at Koch Technology Center and has previously worked as a Senior Data Engineer/Architect at Incedo and as an MSBI Developer/Data Analytics at Fifthnote. Saru holds a Master of Engineering degree in Data Analytics & Communication and a Bachelor of