Abishek Subramanian on Tal
Headline
Data & AI Leader | Lakehouse Architecture at Enterprise Scale | 5x Databricks | 3x Azure | 2x AWS | 1x GCP | Driving Outcomes from Strategy to Production.
About
Senior Data & AI leader with 18+ years of enterprise technology experience including 5+ years deep in Databricks, modern data engineering, and GenAI architecting and delivering large-scale data, analytics, and AI platforms for Fortune 500 and global enterprises across Retail, Banking, Healthcare, and Manufacturing. As Associate Director, Databricks CoE | Data & AI Delivery at Wavicle Data Solutions, I lead high-performing teams executing some of the region's most complex lakehouse and multi-cloud modernization programs turning fragmented data estates into governed, AI-ready foundations that deliver measurable outcomes. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 ▪ End-to-end delivery leadership from C-suite alignment through architecture, build, migration, and operations ▪ Technical leadership that drives engineering excellence and a culture of ownership ▪ Deep Databricks Lakehouse expertise Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, LakeFlow Connect, MLflow, Workflows ▪ GenAI & agentic workflows Genie BI, Agent Bricks, production-grade RAG at enterprise scale ▪ Multi-cloud architecture across Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid modernization ▪ Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, business & stakeholder teams ▪ CoE buildout, team scaling, governance, and FinOps discipline ▪ Security, regulatory compliance, and enterprise risk management 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝗴𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 Leading a petabyte-scale Azure-to-GCP lakehouse transformation for one of the world's largest retailers zero-downtime expectations, full Unity Catalog governance, and a custom multi-cloud orchestration framework spanning millions of assets and thousands of pipelines. 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 ▪ Founded India's largest Databricks User Group 6 cities, thousands of practitioners ▪ AWS Community Builder | Speaker, trainer & creator under the #LearnWithAbi brand ▪ Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert | AWS Solutions Architect Professional | Databricks (full stack) 𝗟𝗲𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 ▪ Driving a data modernization or AI roadmap and need a delivery partner ▪ Scaling a Data & AI function and hiring senior leadership ▪ Evaluating Databricks for a complex multi-cloud or migration program ▪ Building an enterprise GenAI capability and need architectural depth 📩 Open to conversations on Data, AI, GenAI, multi-cloud, and Databricks transformations.
Location
Greater Bengaluru Area
AI stack
anthropic apis
claude code
elevenlabs
hugging face
langchain
mcp
Work experience
Associate Director | Databricks CoE | Data & AI Delivery at Wavicle Data Solutions, Feb 2026 - Present · 7 mos, Bengaluru
Founder & Lead, Databricks User Group Network - India at Databricks User Group INDIA, May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos, India, Founded and scaled India's largest Databricks user community from ground zero, establishing a 6-city network serving 1000+ data professionals. Network Coverage: Bangalore • Hyderabad • Pune • Coimbatore • Kolkata • Chennai Leadership Impact: Organize monthly technical meetups, workshops, and hands-on sessions across all chapters Drive knowledge sharing on Data Lakehouse, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Generative AI on Databricks Built the community into India's premier platform for Databricks practitioners and architects Partner with Databricks and ecosystem vendors for community-led innovation Mentor data engineers on modern data platform best practices #DataEngineering #Databricks #CommunityLeadership #OpenSource
Senior Solutions Engineer at Databricks, May 2022 - Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 10 mos
Principal Software Engineer at Oracle, Aug 2021 - May 2022 · 10 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area
System Integration Specialist Advisor at NTT DATA Services, May 2018 - Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area
Education
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics & Communication Engg, Pondicherry University
Public links
github: https://github.com/learnwithabi
medium: https://medium.com/@learnwithabi
