Navaneethakrishnan Karuppiah

Navaneethakrishnan Karuppiah has a diverse work experience spanning over 14 years. Navaneethakrishnan started their career as a Software Programmer at Enrich in 2007. From 2009 to 2011, they worked as a Sr. Associate at ELLAAR, where they were involved in support, enhancements, and incident management for end-to-end applications.

In 2011, Navaneethakrishnan joined DXC Technology as a Software Engineer and stayed with the company until 2015. During this time, they gained experience in software development and engineering.

In 2015, Navaneethakrishnan joined Emirates Airline as a Software Engineer. Navaneethakrishnan worked on projects involving Spark Streaming, Scala programming, and the migration of RDBMS to Hadoop using Sqoop. Navaneethakrishnan contributed to building the Hadoop stack and implementing big data analytic tools.

Since 2019, Navaneethakrishnan has been with Petrofac. Navaneethakrishnan started as a Senior Data Engineer and was responsible for creating pipelines, monitoring Spark data bricks clusters, and implementing Snowflake data modelling techniques. Navaneethakrishnan then progressed to become a Lead Data Engineer, where they led a team of data engineers and focused on data management principles, data accessibility, and data-driven decision making. Currently, they hold the position of IT Lead - Data Engineering / Data Science, where they are responsible for architecting data flows and guiding the team to follow best practices.

Overall, Navaneethakrishnan has developed expertise in data engineering, data science, software development, and working with big data technologies.

Navaneethakrishnan Karuppiah completed a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Anna University between 2003 and 2007. Navaneethakrishnan also pursued a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Systems from the University of Madras. Additionally, Navaneethakrishnan holds various certifications from Microsoft, including being a Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate (obtained in September 2021 and not specify the obtained month in 2021), a Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals (obtained in 2020), and they are currently working towards becoming a Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (expected to be obtained in November 2022).