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About Me

Hi I'm Priyanshu. Currently , I am working as a Senior Product Manager, passionate about solving problems through data driven solutions. With extensive experience across the Banking, E-Commerce, Healthcare, Media and Manufacturing domains, I’ve successfully guided clients through their data modernization journeys. My work sits at the intersection of data science, engineering, and cognitive analytics, enabling me to deliver impactful, value-driven outcomes that help businesses make informed, strategic decisions.

I have passion for building products that benefit society. Outside of work, I’m an aspiring cinematographer and filmmaker with a passion for uncovering the world’s most breathtaking adventures and hidden gems, landscapes and cultures, narrating compelling stories that inspire others to explore and connect with the world around them. Whether through drone cinematography or on-the-ground filmmaking, I am committed to showcasing the essence of each journey and transforming moments into visual experiences.

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Experience

2023 - Present

Product Manager

Groupon, Bangalore

• Orchestrated the development of a cutting-edge data platform, facilitating seamless data migrations, ETL processes, unified data lineage and data governance solutions leading to a 40% reduction in overall data processing time.

• Integrated data products that supported key business insights involving development, testing, optimizing SQL performance and deployment of data pipelines handling 500 GB/day, driving a 25% lift in data-driven decision making.

• Collaborated with Google Team on migration of a petabyte scale Data warehouse to the Google Cloud Platform involving migration of 700+ Data pipelines, slashing costs by 60% while maintaining high performance.

2019 - 2023

Lead Data Engineer

LTIMindtree, London, UK

Product Lead, LTI Canvas PolarSled - Spearheaded the engineering efforts of LTI's flagship data modernization and migration platform Canvas PolarSled and played a key role in successfully pitching it to 20+ clients across US, Europe and APAC and contributing towards revenue stream of USD 50+ million YOY.

• Pioneered the migration of a 100+TB capacity Data Warehouse on Snowflake, migrating 100K+ data objects, 5000+ ETL's serving Data Science, analyst and Business Intelligence teams across 16 business lines.

• Build the data migration and data reconciliation solutions using Apache Spark to migrate applications from giant monolithic architecture to cloud based distributed architecture reducing overall migration timelines by over 70%.

Jun '2018- July'2018

Software Engineering Intern

ThoughtClan Technologies, Bangalore

• Developed a solution for identifying facial features integrated with age, gender and emotion classifier using Neural Networks.

• Implemented a Convolutional Neural Network to extract features and identification using a single data entry.

• Achieved an accuracy of 86.2 %( 77% baseline) on a dataset from the over 15 classes and exposed the solution as an API for future uses.

Education

2015-2019

Bachelors of Engineering with Honors

Major in Computer Science

Medi-Caps, Indore

Activities and Societies: Founder and President - MUCoders -Medi-Caps CodeChef Chapter, C-Certificate - National Service Scheme, The Literary Club

2013-2015

XII, CBSE

Holy Trinity School, Dewas

Activities and Societies: Sports Captain, Holy Trinity School(2014-15). House Vice Captain, Holy Trinity School(2013-14). Consistently stood in Top 5 of the class during entire schooling period from 5th-12th standard.

Skills

Programming languages

Python

90%

Java

70%

PySpark

80%

Databases

Snowflake

90%

Teradata

70%

RedShift

80%

MySQL

90%

NOSQL -MongoDB

70%

Tools and Platforms

AWS

80%

Azure

80%

Databricks

70%

GIT

80%

Airflow

70%

Firebase

70%

Web Development

HTML

90%

CSS

90%

Javascript

80%

Bootstrap

80%

Flask

80%

Projects

Canvas PolarSled

LTI Canvas PolarSled platform addresses the core challenges of designing, accelerating, and governing a data transformation journey to cloud with an end to-end automation-led implementation/migration toolkit powered by ML-based automation tools.

Technologies Used: Python, Apache Spark, Flask, Bootstrap, Snowflake, RedShift, Azure Cognitive Services

SnowFi

Apache Nifi based light weight solution to Ingest Data and handle CDC. Leveraging Custom Nifi processor for Auto Schema Discovery, Perform CDC on RDBMS and Streaming updates on the target. Data Lineage and Data Provenance feature ensuring guaranteed delivery of data with support on standalone as well cluster mode.

Technologies Used: Java, Apache Nifi, Teradata, Snowflake, Zookeeper, Kerbero, Talend

Med-Help

An application that helps in diagnosis of infectious diseases, it asks a series of questions designed to emulate the thinking of an expert in the field of infectious diseases, and from the responses to these questions give a list of possible diagnoses, necessary treatment and suggests the nearest doctor in case of emergency.

Technologies Used: Python, R, Decision Tree, SVM, numpy, tensorflow, Cognitive Services, Azure ML Studio

UCEverything

An application specifically aimed for blind people which turns their visual world into an audible experience recognizing faces, describing scene and reading text. Developed as a part of an International Hackathon where we ended up at 6th position out of 220 participant teams.

Technologies Used: Python, tensorflow, Azure Cognitive Services, tts, Cloud Vision API

Bus Navigator

Developed a solution to solve the problem of bus navigation and tracking within the college. An application that gives complete information namely the bus number, bus timings, the routes through which the bus would pass, time taken for the bus to reach and the exact location of bus.

Technologies Used: Java, Google API’s, Firebase, HTML, CSS, JS

Publications

Creating Internet of Things for the benefit of Indian Society

Presented the paper at the international Conference on Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET) at SSN College, Chennai, India from March 21-23, 2019.

Achievements & Scholarships

Business Today International Conference: Represented India globally at the International Conference by Princeton University and Wall Street Journal in New York, USA comprising of students from 38 different countries from an applicant pool of 2000+ students and got featured in the Wall Street Journal.

• Awarded the brightest Engineer of India by Economic Times 2019 from among 37,000 engineers all over the country.

HackTheNorth, University of Waterloo, Canada: Among top 500 candidates selected from all over the world for HackTheNorth, one of the World’s biggest hackathon.

Beta Level Microsoft Learn Partner, Microsoft: Recognized for my contributions, passion and commitment to the program and selected as one of the Beta Tech Lead out of 10K+ MLSAs across the globe to build Microsoft communities on the campus and share the knowledge and passion for technology with their fellow students.

Google Tech Intern, Google India: Selected as one of the top 30 interns from all over the country for Google Tech Intern Connect at Google Bangalore Office.

Summer School Intern, IISc Bangalore: Selected among the 86 bright students from all over the country to attend the 6th Undergraduate Summer School.

• Recipient of CSS Scholarship by Ministry of Human Resource Development for being amongst top 1 percentile in 12th HSC Board Examination.

Visual Stories

Far far away, behind the word mountains, Living A Dream !