praveen kumar

Senior Data & AI Architect

Salary / Daily rate

Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Data EngineeringAIMachine Learning

Languages

English

About me

Intro

Enterprise Data & AI Architect with 15 years building scalable platforms for Fortune 500 companies. Led development of Cargill's central AI/ML platform handling 8TB+ daily data ingestion across 9 global business units. Specialized in AWS cloud architecture, MLOps, and GenAI solutions that drive supply chain optimization and fraud detection.

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Work experience

Sr. Principal Data & AI architect - Associate Director

Cargill

Jul 2018 - Present

8 years 4 months

Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Spearheaded the development of Cargill's central Data, AI, and ML Platform, enabling the delivery of critical data products. Supported key initiatives including supply chain optimization (ML)Healthcare Data Product , Financial Data product on real time fraud detection, predictive quality control (ML), and document intelligence (GenAI) for 9 global business units. Built AWS data infrastructure handling 8TB+/day ingestion from 50 sources, ensuring timely data availability for training and serving production ML models, reducing processing latency. Engineered automated data orchestration for ETL and ML feature pipelines, cutting manual data prep by 25 hours/week and accelerating Data Science team productivity for AI projects.

Manager Data analytics

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Jul 2015 - Jul 2018

3 years 1 month

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

In my role as a Manager of Data Analytics at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, I led a team of data engineers and analysts to design and implement scalable data pipelines for processing 10M+ events daily. I architected a unified data lake on Snowflake and Databricks, reducing query latency and ensuring data accuracy and compliance with GDPR and ISO 27001 standards.

Lead Software Engineer

L&T Technology Services

Jul 2014 - Jul 2015

1 year 1 month

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

In my role as a Lead Software Engineer at L&T Technology Services, I designed and optimized SQL queries to improve data extraction and analysis, built ETL pipelines for data loading, and automated tasks to enhance operational efficiency.

Project Engineer

Wipro

Oct 2011 - Jul 2014

2 years 10 months

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

•Contributed to all phases of the development lifecycle, from design to writing and developing. •Designed, developed and tested Java-based solutions using common standards and frameworks for ease of maintenance. •Automated repetitive tasks using Java, saving the team over 100 hours of manual work per month. •Designed RESTful APIs for Java applications, enabling seamless integration with front-end technologies and third-party services. •Applied Agile methodologies to manage Java development projects, improving team productivity and project delivery timelines.


Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

2006 - 2010

4 years 1 month

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