About

Soumya Raj Poddar is a Senior Data Engineer at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech, with over 5.78 years of relevant experience in the field of data engineering, ETL, SQL, software engineering, big data, Python, infra, search, test, Salesforce, Postgres, and product management. He has worked for top companies like Accenture, where he served as a Software Developer Senior Analyst, and L&T, where he worked as a Senior Data Engineer. Soumya's expertise lies in providing simple and effective solutions for complex designs in ETL tools and data analysis. He has implemented multiple automation ideas, saving thousands of dollars for clients. He has also led offshore application developer and support teams from India for European clients, in a client-facing role, and has been awarded multiple accolades for his outstanding performance, team player, and leadership skills. At Accenture, Soumya worked on Pharma Sales CRM Application Development, where he built 25 Informatica mappings and workflows, from scratch, for new functionalities. He worked on seven projects independently, while interacting with clients to get clear requirements and delivering said items within each sprint, without any escalations, issues, or bugs. He also automated the Multi-Channel Cycle Plan module in CRM through ETL processes, saving 3200 hours of manual effort and $45,000 for the client per year. Soumya has resolved a total of ~2000 tickets for end-users till date, without any major escalations, and is a subject matter expert for Europe Interfaces for the application, go-to person for all leadership personnel. He has consolidated & migrated users and their details from a different application to their application, on a tight schedule without any glitches or issues. He has also implemented fixes for ~15 long-running ETL jobs in production, thus improving the efficiency of the entire interface and saving manual effort of 2 hours per day. Soumya holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University.