Aanchal Sharma
Amsterdam
Summary
Passionate about leadership, engineering and all things data. Bringing in more than 15 years of experience and knowledge across all Data realms.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Streaming Solutions
Booking.com
08.2023 - Current
- Spearheading the ingestion process within the Booking's data migration and modernization program from Hadoop to Snowflake.
- Building a high-performing team of data engineers for enabling operational data ingestion via CDC mechanism for advance analytics use cases within booking data ecosystem.
- Responsible for Implementing policies around data governance, metadata management, and data stewardship to ensure compliance with internal and external regulations.
Director of Data Engineering and Architecture
Bitpanda
09.2021 - 05.2023
- Heading thedata engineering team comprises of data engineers, managers and architects
- Defined and Established processes for all stakeholders to drive data value and growth in their respective areas
- Built a scalable and robust data platform to be used companywide using cutting edge big data technologies and tools
- Built processes and systems to ensure data quality and reliability across all disciplines and areas
- Launched Data Literacy Program to educate stakeholders on data usage for self-serve purposes and enable widespread data usage
- Delivering high quality data products to drive data driven decisions and insights
- Launched Data Governance Program with clear data ownership and scalable data cataloging
Head of Data Engineering
Monese
11.2019 - 09.2020
- Led a team of professional data engineers responsible for building the data platform for the entire organization
- Architected and built a Streaming Platform for both App events and Backend Events using tools like Apache Kafka, Airflow and Spark
- Established end to end company wide Data Governance Architecture to define clear data ownership and stewardship
- Established processes for Stakeholder management to enable the company for any data driven decision as well as deliver data products to be used by all the disciplines and areas
Lead Data Engineer
EA Sports
03.2018 - 11.2019
- Responsible for designing, building and maintaining end-to-end data pipelines for over 10 game titles using Apache Airflow and Snowflake deployed on a Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud Platform
- Built streaming data pipelines using PySpark for 3 HD game titles
- Established CI/CD pipelines for production deployments
- Implemented an automated testing framework across the Data Analytics Platform
- Responsible for setting up Kubernetes cluster on GCP including cluster security to run Airflow using Kontemplate and Terraform
- Worked on migrating the legacy ETL C# solution from Teradata to Hive
Senior Data Engineer
Deloitte
10.2015 - 02.2018
- Worked on distributed transaction systems using IBM DataStage
- Implemented Dimension data model for the Fraud division of a state insurance client
- Implemented data quality and validation process using IBM Information Analyzer 9.1
- Implemented data cleansing and availability for the Fraud Analytics Software Tool of a state insurance client
ETL Lead
Accenture
08.2009 - 09.2015
- Development of Customer Centricity Model
- Developed cases to cover all possible scenarios for customer centricity as well as defining functional specifications for the overall architecture and data flow
- Worked on the Quality Stage to standardize the addresses and names for Master Data Management
- Worked in close collaboration with key stakeholders to gather requirements from various areas of the business in order to generate a 360-degree view of a customer
- Integration Delivery for TD Bank
- Led the Accenture technical team as functional and technical SME for Customer ODS and MDM on the MBNA Integration Program for the Bank
- Worked on migration of 10M Customer and Account data and 1B Offers data from one bank system to another system
- Designed and developed a successful business validation reporting tool for use by the business for sign-off and developed the code to integrate to main customer databases, MDM and Customer ODS
- Data Warehouse for Miller Coors Brewery
- Designed and implemented dimensional data model for sales and inventory data
- Implemented BI Agile methodology to design and develop different applications and successfully integrate during the later stages of the project life cycle
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Mody Institute of Technology and Science
07.2009
Skills
- Data Engineering Platforms
- Data Quality and Management
- Data Architecture and Governance
- Data Migration
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Airflow
- Apache Spark
- Apache Flink
- Debezium
- Amazon Redshift
- Snowflake
- DBT
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Data Vault
Technical Profile
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Airflow
- Apache Spark
- Amazon Redshift
- Snowflake
- DBT
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Data Vault
Timeline
Head of Streaming Solutions
Booking.com
08.2023 - Current
Director of Data Engineering and Architecture
Bitpanda
09.2021 - 05.2023
Head of Data Engineering
Monese
11.2019 - 09.2020
Lead Data Engineer
EA Sports
03.2018 - 11.2019
Senior Data Engineer
Deloitte
10.2015 - 02.2018
ETL Lead
Accenture
08.2009 - 09.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Mody Institute of Technology and Science
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