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KISHORE KUMAR APPAVOO

Contact No: (408) 913-9411


Email: [email protected]
SUMMARY
 A Passionate, Process-oriented, Self-driven and Result oriented Leader with 15+ years of leading Business
Intelligence Solutions, Data Warehouse Development & Maintenance, Statistical Modeling, Application
Integration, MDM Implementations, Project Management, Solution Architecture, and Enterprise Architecture
using traditional SDLC, and Agile methodology.
 Domain knowledge in Sales, Financial, HR, Procurement & Spend, Master Data Management, CRM,
Marketing Attribution, Contracts, and ITIL.
 Implemented Analytics for ERP Apps Enterprise-wide, using Data Warehouse concepts and methodologies,
custom-built Analytical Applications for Business Applications, and Operational Excellence in the core
Banking and social networking sector.
 Technology leadership experience in Programming, PL/SQL, Relational Databases, Legacy Data Systems,
Business Intelligence Tools, ETL Tools, Middleware platforms, SOA techniques, Data Warehousing Principles
and Techniques, Advanced Analytics, and MDM Platform.

Skills
 Data Visualization  Power BI
 Data Integration/Engineering  Big Data Analytics
 Data Storytelling & Presentation  Data Quality & Data Governance
 Master Data Management/ Reference Data  RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, Teradata,
Management Netezza, PostgreSQL), HDFS (Hive, Impala,
 Application Integration Presto, Spark)
 Predictive & Statistical Analytics  Analytical Applications using Python/R
 Performance Tuning Programming
 Database Installation and Governance  Enterprise Architecture – Tableau, OBIEE
 Project Management - PMBOK 6e, Agile Scrum (Installation & Maintenance)
 Data Modelling  Dev Ops – CI/CD, Scrum Master

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Meta Platforms Inc.- Menlo Park, California Apr 2016 – Present


Data Engineer
 Crunched data from various systems using tools like SQL, R, Python, Informatica, Data swarm to generate
valuable insights for Facebook’s internal applications such as HR Data Management, Finance, Facilities,
Culinary and Global Security.
 In-stream data collection using tools like Kafka, and spark streaming, and custom libraries built using Python
programming.
 Developed a model for forecasting future demand and planning various approaches of meeting the demand
for Workforce, and Facilities Management.
 Working in Hadoop Eco system components HDFS, Map Reduce, HBase, Presto, Spark and Hive for scalability,
& distributed computing.
 Reduced runtime of complex processes by more than 15% through efficient coding analysis and performance
tuning of SQL queries – collaborated with DBAs, testing teams to revalidate findings, rigorously test out
changes, and monitor performance.

Visa Inc.- Foster City, California Nov 2014 – Apr 2016


Technical Manager
 Designed, Developed, and Managed Corporate Analytics platform, which comprises of end to end systems for
Business Intelligence, including ETL and Reporting Environment.
 Installed, Upgraded, and Maintained Tableau Server with High Distribution capability, to ensure its availability
to 99%.
 Review and approve the design documents for Metadata code structure built using Tableau products and
custom ETL for enhancements.
 Responsible for scheduled delivery of Reports / Interactive Dashboards with different Analytics Views and
customizations.
 Optimization of existing/new Tableau extracts and views, and detailed analysis on explain plans triggered to
their related Databases.
 Train end users, with clear documentation, guidance for effective/efficient way to make use of delivered
applications.

COX Communications- Atlanta, Georgia May 2014 – Nov 2014


Lead Data Engineer
 Designed, Developed, and Managed a Datawarehouse built from scratch using Bottom-Up approach, to cater
to requirement of Collections team, to perform their collection process against their customers.
 Interacted with senior management to gather the requirements, and to prepare proof of concepts, demos,
and presentations to accomplish the stated requirements.
 Architected Data Model using Power Designer tool, and monitored all required Database operations,
including its expected data flow design.
 Built data pipelines using Python, Informatica mappings, and expert in writing the packages for the ETL
transformations.

Verizon Communications- Basking Ridge, New Jersey Mar 2013 – Apr 2014
Senior BI Engineer
 Designed, and Built interactive/dynamic Dashboards with drill-down, Contextual Navigation, Guided
Analytics, Alerts, Security Setup (groups, access privileges), Metadata Objects & Web CatLog Objects
(Dashboard, Folders, and Reports).
 Deployed end-to-end order management Analytics for Ethernet/TLS Products; Service Delivery and
Assurance Dashboards & Force Load Ease.
 Analytics Support for Surveillance and Monitoring Activities (planned and unplanned outages, alarms, and
notifications) for all Products.

Visa Inc.- Foster City, California May 2012 – Dec 2012


Technical Lead
 Responsible for Requirement Study, Gap Analysis, Scope Definition, Recommendations to Business Process
Improvements, Design of Process flows, Forms & Documentation, Effort Estimation, Project Tracking, User
acceptance testing, and Change Control Management.
 Developed Reports on Credit/Debit transactions, against systems with huge Data volume(>1PB).

Standard Chartered- India Nov 2011- May 2012


BI Developer
 Developed a Repository to cater to reporting requirements that emphasized closely monitoring the
performance parameters of the bank’s current performance concerning the past performance records and to
prepare trending based on time.

Bank of America- India Sep 2008 – Oct 2011


BI Developer
 Developed a transition merger project, with huge data volume and asynchronous data structures within Bank
of America, and Merrill Lynch. Enabled capability to aggregate holdings and exposures across GWIM
portfolios in Alternate Investment Solutions (AIS), Columbia Management (CM), Premier Banking &
Investment (PB&I), Private Wealth Management (PWM)/US Trust as well as provide the means for analytical
and ad-hoc reporting to improve the management of GWIM’s assets.

EDUCATION
 Master of Business Administration (Information Systems & Data Management)
 Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
 Alphanet Consulting LLC (Jan 2023 – Till Date)
 Meta Platforms Inc (Dec 2019 –Jan 2023)
 Alphanet Consulting LLC (Aug 2016 – Dec 2019)
 Royal Technocrats Inc (May 2014 to Aug 2016)
 Cognizant Technology Solutions (Mar 2013 to May 2014)
 Infosys Limited (Sep 2008 to Dec 2012)

CERTIFICATIONS & CONFERENCES


 Oracle Certified Specialist in Oracle Business Intelligence
 Tableau Certified Associate in Tableau Server
 Master Data Management
 PMP Exam Prep Seminar - PMBOK Guide 6
 Multi-Dimensional Data Modelling
 Performance Tuning of SQL in Oracle Database
 Advanced Python by AcademyX
 Meta Certified Digital Marketing Associate

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