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Vinod Ganesan

@vinodganesan

I lead reliable analytics and data platforms serving thousands of customers.

United States
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At PayPal, I lead Analytics Reliability Engineering for the Enterprise Data Platform, providing reliability services for approximately 5,000 analytics customers across batch operations, scheduler services, business intelligence tools, and big data platforms.

I've spent 30 years in data warehousing and 25 years building and managing large-scale data platforms, including Teradata engineering at PayPal and data warehouse, fulfillment, and shipping platforms at Dell.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

PayPal logoPA
Current

Director, Analytics Reliability Engineering

Apr 2022 - Present (4 years 6 months)

Leading Analytic Platform Reliability Engineering (ARE) teams which is one of Core Data Infrastructure group in PayPal's Enterprise Data Platform Organization. ARE is responsible for managing the reliability of PayPal analytics environment, providing one stop shop services for ~5000 analytics customers. ARE covers Batch and Data Operations, Scheduler Services (UC4, Airflow), Business Intelligence

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Senior Manager, Analytics Reliability Engineering - Enterprise Data Platforms

Nov 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 4 months)

Leading Analytics Reliability Engineering (ARE) in Enterprise Data Platform organization. Responsible for Batch and Data operations, Scheduler Services (UC4, Airflow), Platform Management - Teradata, Hadoop, GCP Big Query & DataProc and Business Intelligence Tools - Tableau, MicroStrategy, Qlikview, SAS and R

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Senior Delivery Manager, Teradata Optimization, Data Technology

Mar 2015 - Apr 2016 (1 year 1 month)

Senior Delivery Manager/Product Owner Role for Teradata Optimization group in PayPal Data Technology group.
2015 H1 Focus - Teradata Platform Separation Efforts for eBay:PayPal Company Split.
2015 H2 & 2016 Focus - Platform Simplification Initiatives and Engineering Best Practices implementation.

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Member of Technical Staff 2, Database Engineering, Data Management Group

Sep 2008 - Mar 2015 (6 years 6 months)

Responsible for Teradata Database operations (4 Teradata Managed Service Resources), Database delivery (3 Database Administrators) and Physical data modeling efforts (5 Engineers) for Teradata Platforms in PayPal Data Technology group.

Dell Inc, DBI FDL (Fulfillment Data Layer Team) logoDT

Data Engineer V

Oct 2006 - Aug 2008 (1 year 10 months)

• Functioned as Development Lead to implement Near Real Time Operations Data store - covering all shipping/logistics data for Dell’s new manufacturing facility (emfp) built in Poland, 3rd party order fulfillment for Americas.
• Played Data architect role to build and standardize Global Data Model for Dell Fulfillment and shipping data in FDL reporting and data service layer.
• Acted as SME for dev

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Data Engineer V

Oct 2006 - Aug 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Functioned as Development Lead to implement Near Real Time Operations Data store covering shipping/logistics data, played Data architect role to build global data model, and acted as SME for EDI interfaces.

Dell Inc, DBI FDL (Fulfillment Data Layer Team) logoDT

Database Administrator V

Jun 2002 - Sep 2006 (4 years 3 months)

• One of the core engineers involved during stabilization efforts of Teradata on windows layer and other project activities responsible for data growth on Teradata at Dell.
• Leaded several systems upgrades/expansion on Teradata platform.
• Leaded the set up of Teradata DBA team at Dell – 4 staff at Austin and 2 staff at Bangalore, India (2002 – 2006)
• Developed Capacity planning and management

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Database Administrator IV

Jan 2001 - Jun 2002 (1 year 5 months)

• Responsible for Daily Database Support of Dell Data warehouse system (E10000) and over 30 Data marts running on Oracle platform (Version 8.1.7)
• Leader of 9i database upgrades and capacity management for over 30 data marts in data warehouse group
• Involved in Retirement efforts of several CSS systems and onboarding to EDW system.
• Developed standards and automated scripts for database adminis

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Database Analyst III

Jul 1998 - Jan 2001 (2 years 6 months)

• ETL development lead for several projects on boarding Services, Telecom data (Americas and Canada) in Dell Data warehouse.
• Physical Data modeling on Oracle as part of ETL and Data mart code development, work with source system teams on source to target data mapping.
• Worked with Global Information Solution team to support data warehouse end users on Data Quality and reporting needs.
• Built 1

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Database Analyst III

Jul 1998 - Jan 2001 (2 years 6 months)

ETL development lead for projects onboarding services and telecom data, performed physical data modeling on Oracle, and built first support team for Service Data.

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Programmer Analyst

Jan 1997 - Jan 1998 (1 year)

• Designed and developed an application for Oklahoma State Health Department to keep track of immunization information for infants in Oracle Designer and Developer 2000. Front end of the application was developed in Forms 4.5
• Developed reports for database user community in Oracle reports 2.5.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

UO

University of Oklahoma

M.S, Computer Science

M.S Computer Science

University of Oklahoma logoUO

University of Oklahoma

Master of Science, Computer Science

M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma.

MT

Manipal Institute of Technology

B.Tech, Computer Engineering

1991 - 1995

Bachelors in Computer Science

MT

Manipal Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering

1991 - 1995

B.Tech in Computer Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology.

BM

Bhavans Vidya Mandir

1980 - 1991

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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