Building AI-powered data systems that go beyond pipelines — where Data Engineering meets Intelligence.
📍 Bengaluru, India | 📧 krishnarajivnair@gmail.com |
Senior Data Engineer with 4+ years of experience architecting production-grade data pipelines, DataOps monitoring frameworks, and cloud cost optimisation solutions on GCP and Snowflake — for a Fortune 500 grocery retailer (Albertsons Companies).
- 💰 Delivered $250K+ in annualised cost savings through Snowflake optimisation (GrokStar Award Q3 2023)
- 📉 Reduced production incidents by ~80% via standardised DAG monitoring across 2,000+ DAGs and 1,000+ Dataflow pipelines
- 🤖 Architected DoRRA — a GenAI-powered DataOps assistant using Gemini & Vertex AI — enabling natural-language incident querying and accelerating L1/L2 resolution
- 🚀 Offshore Release Manager with zero rollback incidents across all Snowflake production deployments
- 👥 Mentor to 4+ engineers | Interview Panelist | Learning Coordinator
| Project | What it is | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 🐉 DRACO | Snowflake-native DataOps + Cost Intelligence platform — AI assistant for incident response, runbook lookup, and spend visibility | Snowflake Cortex, Cortex Search, Streamlit in Snowflake |
| 🎯 CIRA | GCP Cost Intelligence Response Assistant — live API-driven cost analysis with anomaly detection and month-end forecasting | GCP Billing API, MCP Server, Python, Streamlit |
Data Engineering & Pipelines
Python SQL BigQuery Snowflake Dataflow Airflow / Cloud Composer Pub/Sub Kafka dbt
Cloud Platforms
Google Cloud Platform Snowflake Azure AWS
DataOps & Observability
DAG Monitoring Pipeline Observability Incident Management RCA ServiceNow Protegrity
Snowflake Expertise
Snowpipe Streams & Tasks SCD Type 1 & 2 Stored Procedures Cost Optimisation Query Optimisation Clustering Strategy
GenAI & ML
Vertex AI Gemini LLM Integration RAG Snowflake Cortex MCP Servers Prompt Engineering
Other
Power BI Flask Linux & Shell Scripting CI/CD Schema Evolution Data Governance
| Certification | Issuer | Status |
|---|---|---|
| ☁️ Associate Cloud Engineer | Google Cloud | Active (2023–2026) |
| 🤖 Introduction to Generative AI | Completed Mar 2024 | |
| 🧠 Introduction to Large Language Models | Completed Mar 2024 | |
| 📊 Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) | Microsoft | Completed Jan 2023 |
| ❄️ Hands-On Essentials – Data Warehouse | Snowflake | Completed Jun 2022 |
| ❄️ Hands-On Essentials – Data Applications | Snowflake | Completed Jul 2022 |
| ☁️ AWS Partner Accreditations | AWS | Completed Apr–May 2022 |
| 📈 IBM Data Science Specialization | Coursera | Completed Nov 2019 |
🥇 GrokStar Award Q3 2023 — Leadership and excellence in cloud cost optimisation across Fortune 500 client engagement
🎖️ Multiple client appreciations — DAG monitoring standardisation and incident reduction across 11 business domains
📌 Selected as Interview Panelist & Learning Coordinator — contributing to hiring quality and team capability development
