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# Praveen A\. on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader at The Walt Disney Company

## About

Evident as a Technology, and Business Leader, I have broad expertise in implementing long\-term engineering vision and plan, aligning resources, and delivery with ambitious business growth and diversification, whilst improving cost\-effectiveness\. Major chunk of my career revolved around Technology, People and Business Management in diverse roles\. Gained enriched experience in strategizing for a multiyear global enterprise item & enterprise vendor engineering organization, partnering with other group heads and presenting vision & critical initiatives to CxOs\. My major highlights have included delivering several enterprise modernization solutions and providing leadership for adoption of new stack while ensuring business continuity with existing/legacy products\. I focus on architecture building highly distributed and resilient systems\. Experienced in cloud and data architecture including Serverless compute, Data Lake, Databricks, Spark and Kubernetes\. Proficient in Data Modeling, ETL/ELT, Micro Services architecture and databases \(Azure SQL, Oracle\)\. My present role as Engineering Manager of Engineering at Cerner, includes \- Bringing forward new ideas that drives the development of a future technology strategy across tools & technology and business systems\. \- Leading strategic & operational planning to achieve core business goals \- Prioritizing technology initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technology systems\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Engineering Leader at The Walt Disney Company, Apr 2026 \- Present · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Jan 2022 \- Apr 2026 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Engineering Manager at Cerner Corporation, Oct 2013 \- Jan 2022 · 8 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Handled a team of 30 inclusive of EMs/Architects, back end engineers, UI engineers and product solution engineers to enhance and build solutions for Cerner's next generation datawarehouse platform \- Responsible for transforming an existing platform to adopt a service based architecture \- Responsible for overall design, development, integrations and delivery of multi tenant based solutions for warehouses \- Collaborated with product management to ideate and refine product requirements and other on going initiatives to improve the correctness and completeness \- Collaborated with various cross functional teams to lead cross org initiatives around improved response times for customer orders, returns, etc \- Identified improvement opportunities and implemented various strategies and processes for ongoing stakeholder issues on production and provided faster TATs and accountability by adding monitors and alerts \- Responsible for agile transformation within the immediate org by introduction of agile and scrum aspects of backlog refinement, sprints, standup and other ceremonies \- Provided measurable team performance visibility and continuos improvement from a scrum perspective to cross teams and management by introducing various pivots, reports, etc\. \- Responsible for people rewards and development, IDPs, mentor mapping and performance management via coaching, 1\-1s and formal appraisals

Database Administrator at Cisco, Jan 2012 \- Oct 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangalore

IT Consultant at Logica, Jul 2006 \- Jan 2012 · 5 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore

## Education

Chinmaya Vidyalaya

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