Kannan Poompatham

Kannan Poompatham has extensive work experience in various roles and industries. Kannan is currently serving as the Engineering Manager and India Development Center Lead at Image Sensing Systems, Inc. Their responsibilities in this role are not specified.

Prior to their current position, Kannan worked as the Senior Manager of Data Engineering at Techmango Technology Services Private Limited. In this role, they acted as a single point of contact for delivery and served as an advocate between the project team, product owner, and DevOps. Kannan was responsible for implementing a modern scalable data architecture deployed in AWS Cloud for a Canadian Brokerage firm. This architecture utilized ELT best practices and incorporated technologies such as Step functions, Lambda, Glue, Spark SQL, PySpark, IAM, KMS, and S3. Kannan also worked with various data sources including IBM DB2, Oracle DB, and EDI messages.

Before their role at Techmango Technology Services Private Limited, Kannan served as a Senior Manager at Royal Cyber Inc. Here, they provided cloud infrastructure support on both Operations and Engineering areas, covering AWS, Azure, and GCP. Kannan was also responsible for data extraction, exchange, and migration onto ServiceNow by building integrations with in-house environments and external systems. Additionally, Kannan supported Splunk-related activities and managed services on Mainframe applications. Kannan even developed a Machine Learning (ML) solution using AWS Sagemaker and demonstrated it to RC. Furthermore, they developed a Proof of Concept (PoC) using the Litmus IoT framework to showcase the automation of an Industrial Edge Computing platform and IIoT device and data management layer.

Kannan's work experience also includes a role in a startup where they focused on digital transformation. Kannan gained knowledge and experience in process and equipment automation, IoT, full-stack development, and cloud computing and big data analytics. In the startup, they also worked on providing smart agriculture solutions to improve productivity for farmers.

Prior to their work in the startup, Kannan held a long-term position at Sopra Steria as a Project Manager. Kannan also worked as a Project Manager at Virtusa. Their earlier work experience includes the role of an Associate Consultant at TCS.

Overall, Kannan Poompatham has significant experience in management, data engineering, cloud infrastructure, IoT, and digital transformation. Kannan has worked with a range of technologies and industries throughout their career.

Kannan Poompatham completed a PG Diploma in Cloud computing at the Great Lakes Institute of Management from 2019 to 2020. The program focused on DevOps, Containers, Bigdata analytics, NoSQL, and Microservices. Prior to that, Kannan earned a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from Annamalai University from 1992 to 1995, with a specialization in Computer Applications. Additionally, Kannan holds several certifications, including Deutsch A1 from the Goethe Institut obtained in April 2015 and Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate from Microsoft obtained in January 2021. Kannan is also certified as a SCRUM Master by the SCRUM Alliance, attained in December 2014. Furthermore, Kannan has a PRINCE 2 certification from the UK, although the month and year of obtaining this certification were not provided.