CV - Alekh Ved
CV - Alekh Ved
CV - Alekh Ved
+18605329904 alekh.ved@gmail.com
Professional Summary
· 18 years of experience in delivering complex data warehouse, data visualization & data
analytics initiatives for multinational companies across of Hospitality, Insurance, Banking and
Finance Domain.
· 15+ years of Business Intelligence expertise in creating, managing and enhancement of over
5000+ reports, dashboards and Semantic models across Business Objects, QlikView, Power BI,
MicroStrategy, SSIS, OBIEE, Spotfire and Tableau platform.
· 10+ years in-depth experience in Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data strategy, Data
Mining, Data Analytics, BI Engineering, Data Visualization & Data warehousing.
· 6+ years of progressive experience in Cloud and Big Data framework and gaining hands on
experience in Azure, ADF, Databricks, Airflow, Spark, Python and others
· In depth understanding of CI/CD, Data Governance, Compliance, Data Security.
Skills
· ETL Tools: Informatica PowerCenter, Databricks, Eventhub, Microsoft Fabric, Spark, SSIS
· Cloud Technology: Azure, AWS, Streaming Data, AI & ML, APIs, and Cloud storage
· Reporting Tools: Power BI, Business Objects, OBIEE, Spotfire, QlikView, MicroStrategy, SSRS
· Project management tools: Microsoft Project, MS Excel, Visio.
· Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Waterfall, CI/CD, Medallion Architecture, SDLC
· Databases (Relational/NoSQL): Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server, Azure Synapse, NoSQL,
Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB, BigQuery, Snowflake, Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Gen 2
· Data Modelling: Erwin, MS Visio, ERStudio
· Data Governance & security: Microsoft Purview, OneTrust, Atacama
· Languages: PL/SQL, Python, R, TSQL
· BIG Data/Hadoop Ecosystem: Hive, HDP, HBase, Impala, Zookeeper, Data Vault, MapReduce
· Orchestration Tools: Airflow, Kubernetes
· Distributed Ecosystem: Spark, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake
· Testing: HP Quality Centre, ALM, JIRA
· CI/CD: Jenkins, Azure Pipeline, GitHub
Certifications
· PL-300 Microsoft Certified : Power BI Data Analyst Associate
· DP-600 Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
· AZ-900 Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
· GE Six Sigma Certified
Experience
1. Azure Data Modeler/Architect MGM Resorts Int. Las Vegas, NV Nov 2019 - Current
MGM Resorts is well-known company in Hospitality industry with providing unique and simplified
guest experience. As a Sr Data Architect, I am working to read, integrate and process data and
provide it to business stakeholders for analysis and forecasting. My achievement includes.
· Developed over 100+ Dashboards and Automation of SQL Queries for Table Games, Advanced
Analytics Team, HR, Slots, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Finance and Operations team.
· Lead the team of 4 On + 7 Off to deliver business critical dashboards & support migration
initiatives. The 11 members included BA’s, Architects, Data Engineer, and QA Testers.
· Created Azure Analysis Tabular Model (version 1200,1500) using Visual studio to support high
volume (~70M) and complex metrics for PowerBI Corp Marketing Dashboards.
· 50% cost reduction for MGM Resorts applications infrastructure within 4 years.
· Leading effort to utilize Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview platform to build NextGen
Platform and move all the components to these new technologies.
· Designed and developed Reusable semantic models to support different LoB’s
· Currently Leading team of 10 Data engineers, DBA’s, Business analyst, Enterprise Architect to
retire Teradata box and migrate all components to Azure Cloud. Implementing solution using
Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Gen 2, Blob Storage, Azure Data Factory, EventHub, Scala,
Pyspark, Airflow, Kubernetes, and CI/CD process using Jenkins and Azure Pipeline.
· Designed and developed a highly efficient data pipeline to ingest, store, process data from
multiple sources, resulting in a reduction in data processing time, improved data accuracy.
· Good understanding of Azure DevOps, ARM Templates & PowerShell scripting.
· Hands on experience in creating landing zone, cloud native solution and migration
· Subject matter level expertise on Azure Governance & Cost Management, Azure Network &
Security, Azure Active Directory, Compute & Storage, Backup & DR, Monitoring
· Design and implement data pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from various
sources into the data warehouse, with a strong focus on reusability, performance, scalability
and cost efficiency using Azure Data Factory, Python Notebooks and Databricks.
· Posses' strong knowledge of database management in writing complex SQL queries, Stored
procedures, database tuning, query optimization and resolving key performance issues.
Coordinated Technical Reviews, developed System requirements.
· Establishing data connection across multiple data sources to build a unified dashboard data
using Rest API and landing data into bronze layer following the medallion architecture.
· Understand data confidentiality, security, compliance needs and apply data protection rules
including data sharing, filtering, and fencing at storage, compute, and consumption layers.
· Creating Databricks notebook in Python and Pyspark for data profiling and analysis.
· Implementation of Azure Key Vault to secure passwords, keys and secrets in Databricks.
· Implemented advanced data quality and governance processes in Databricks, leading to a 25%
decrease in data errors and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
· Developed and maintained machine learning models to predict customer behavior, resulting
in a 15% increase in customer retention.
· In depth understanding of Databricks Partition, Repartition and Coalesce concepts.
· Utilizing OneTrust and Atacama to identify and secure PII Data across all source databases.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics – from Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India (2002-2006).