CHOKKANI JANARDAHN

Lead Data Engineer | Snowflake & AI

Salary / Daily rate

Silverstone, Towcester NN12, UK

Freelance

Skills

AzureSnowflakeAIMachine LearningLLMs / Large language modelsWorkdayMicrosoft 365Power AppsXcodeSAP ERPIoT.NETC++CybersecuritySpring BootGraphQLC#JavaGolangScalaKotlinSwiftObjective-CPythonHTMLJavascriptNodeAndroidIOSAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformSalesforceSalesforce MuleSoftITILMicroservicesRESTful APIsHadoopSQL QueriesMySQLOracleJenkinsGitTerraformDockerKubernetesServiceNowPower BITableauDatabricks

Languages

English (Native)

About me

Intro

Enterprise Data & AI Architect with 15+ years delivering secure, scalable solutions across logistics, pharma, finance, and public sector. Specialized in Snowflake ML pipelines, Azure cloud architecture, and end-to-end data platforms—recently deployed AI models at CMA CGM and architected compliant analytics infrastructure at HMRC. I transform complex regulatory and operational challenges into production-ready, governed data solutions that drive measurable business impact.

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Work experience

Data Engineer - (Snowflake, AI & Semantic Data, Tableau and PowerBI)

CMACGM - Freight Transport & Global Logistics

Mar 2023 - Present

3 years 8 months

Uckange, France

– Designed, developed, and deployed Machine Learning and AI models addressing logistics, operational, and commercial use cases within CMA CGM. – Leveraged Snowflake Data Cloud as the central platform for data engineering and AI workloads. – Implemented data processing and feature engineering pipelines using Snowpark (Python) and advanced SQL. – Built and industrialized end-to-end ML pipelines including training, validation, deployment, and monitoring. – Developed User-Defined Functions (UDFs) to embed ML logic directly within Snowflake. – Applied MLOps best practices to ensure model reproducibility, scalability, and lifecycle management. – Optimized performance and cost of data transformations and ML workloads on Snowflake. – Ensured data quality, security, and governance in line with CMA CGM enterprise standards. – Collaborated with data engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to translate operational challenges into AI solutions. – Contributed to Data & AI standards, documentation, and best practices at Group level.

Lead Data Migration

HMRC

Jul 2021 - Mar 2023

1 year 9 months

1180 Uccle, Belgium

Owned the design and delivery of a secure, compliant Azure data integration and analytics platform within a highly regulated public-sector environment. – Architected secure enterprise data pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Databricks, integrating finance, HR, and operational systems. – Implemented data governance, lineage, and role-based access controls (RBAC) to meet HMRC security, audit, and compliance requirements. – Led and mentored a team of data engineers, establishing engineering standards and improving delivery velocity. – Collaborated with senior policy and operational stakeholders to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical technical solutions. – Oversaw third-party vendor integrations and ensured delivery within strict governance frameworks. – Enabled trusted analytics and reporting through Azure SQL/Synapse and Power BI, supporting faster operational and policy decision-making. – Snowflake was used as a high-performance, secure data platform to process, store, and analyze large-scale, transaction-based HMRC data, enabling near real-time reporting, analytics, and regulatory compliance at enterprise scale.

Pharmaceutical and healthcare Solution Architect

Sanofi

Sep 2019 - Jun 2021

1 year 10 months

1180 Uccle, Belgium

Project Overview Led the design and delivery of a Snowflake-based analytics and data enablement platform for Sanofi, supporting global commercial, clinical, and operational analytics. Provided strategic and technical leadership to enable secure, compliant, and scalable data access across the organization. – Architected a Snowflake-based analytics platform to support clinical, pharmacovigilance, and commercial analytics, leveraging Snowflake capabilities such as zero-copy cloning, secure data sharing, and workload separation. – Designed a multi-cloud architecture (Azure with AWS integrations) to support global research and commercial teams, implementing infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) to standardise deployments across regulated environments. – Led the design of a modern data warehouse integrating clinical trial data, real-world evidence, and commercial datasets, applying best practices in database modelling and distributed data processing. – Implemented secure and auditable data ingestion and transformation pipelines, enabling reliable analytics while maintaining full traceability for regulated workloads. – Integrated Snowflake with Power BI, Tableau, and data integration tools, enabling governed data exploration and advanced analytics across business and research teams. – Designed and implemented data security, governance, and compliance frameworks, including fine-grained access controls, data masking, lineage, and auditing to meet GxP, GDPR, and internal compliance requirements.

Technical Lead/Architect, Mobile & Digital

Nationwide Building Society

Dec 2018 - Sep 2019

10 months

1180 Uccle, Belgium

Data Integration Consultant

Novartis

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

1 year

Ireland, Shefford SG17 5QL, UK

Cloud/Web/Mobile Architect

JTI

Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

1 year

UK, Switzerland, Spain

Technical Lead/Senior Developer

Qualcomm

Aug 2015 - Dec 2016

1 year 5 months

1180 Uccle, Belgium

Solution/API Architect

CSR Plc.

Jan 2014 - Aug 2015

1 year 8 months

1180 Uccle, Belgium

Lead Mobile Developer

Allstate NI Insurance/Bank

Aug 2010 - Jan 2014

3 years 6 months

1180 Uccle, Belgium

Senior C# .NET Developer

Ez-runner

Jan 2010 - Aug 2010

8 months

1180 Uccle, Belgium

Senior .NET Developer

First American Core Logic

Jun 2006 - Dec 2009

3 years 7 months

Indianapolis, IN, USA

.NET Developer

SRIT - Sobha Renaissance IT

Sep 2005 - Jun 2006

10 months

Indianapolis, IN, USA


Education

Bharathidasan University

MSc, Computer Science

Bharathidasan University

BSc, Mathematics


Licenses & certifications

MCTS - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

Issued: –

Certified by Microsoft

SAFe Certified Professional

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Certified by Scaled Agile, Inc.

TOGAF 9.1® Foundation

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Certified by The Open Group

Azure Certified Solutions Architect

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Certified by Microsoft Azure

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

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Certified by Amazon Web Services

Data Engineering Professional Certificate

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Certified by Snowflake

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