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# Ranjana Soundararajan on Tal

## Headline

Effectively integrating decision making, people, technology, and business processes\.

## About

Results\-driven Technology Executive with 20\+ years of experience leading enterprise\-scale cloud transformations, massive data estates, and pioneering AI\-first engineering cultures\. Strategic architect of high\-performance organizations where agentic workflows and human expertise converge to accelerate innovation\-to\-market velocity\. Leader driven by the core philosophy that high talent density and operational excellence are the primary differentiators for scalable and sustained enterprise success\. COMPETENCIES Full\-Stack Application Development \| On\-Premises & Cloud Integration \| Enterprise Transformation \| Executive Stakeholder Management \| Enterprise Data Warehousing \| ETL / ELT Engineering \| Data Engineering & Analytics \| Cloud Data Platforms \| Real\-Time Streaming Architectures \| DevOps & Platform Engineering \| Lean & Agile Delivery \| M&A Technology Due Diligence \| Data Governance, Quality & Controls \| Building High\-Performance Organizations \| Technology Roadmap & Program Management \| Financial Planning & Budget Management \| Organizational Design & Scaling \| Talent Acquisition, Performance Management & Workforce Optimization SKILLS Google Cloud Platform \(GCP\) Architect \| AWS Architect \| Data Platforms \- Data Lake, Lakehouse, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Metadata & Lineage \| Big Data & Streaming \- Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Snowflake \| Data Engineering \- dbt, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Elasticsearch \| AI / ML \- Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, Vector DBs \(Milvus, Pinecone, pgvector\), Prompt Engineering, AI Governance \| LLM Orchestration \- LangChain \| GitHub Copilot \| Google Agentic Development Kit \| APIs \- GraphQL, FastAPI \| Java, Python, Node\.js \| Kubernetes \| CI/CD, GitOps, Terraform \| Mainframe \| SAP \- HANA, ECC, HCM \| Analytics \- Looker, Tableau \| MLOps, Model Serving & APIs \| Cloud Security, IAM, Observability CERTIFICATIONS ▪ Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect \(GCPCA\) \- https://scq\.io/JUOI3gg ▪ Hortonworks HDP Certified Hadoop Administrator \(HDPCA\) \- http://bcert\.me/squaepia ▪ Certified Blockchain Expert \- https://www\.credential\.net/8e9610e2\-b057\-42b8\-a15a\-9ca12d445226

## Location

India

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Director of Software Engineering at Walmart Global Tech India, Sep 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs

Director, Data Engineering at PayPal, Oct 2021 \- Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Senior Manager, Data Engineering at PayPal, Nov 2020 \- Nov 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Senior Manager, Architect at PayPal, Apr 2019 \- Nov 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

Technology Specialist, Project Lead \- Data Platform and Engineering \(Big Data and Analytics\) at Cognizant, Apr 2015 \- Oct 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Associate at Cognizant, May 2013 \- Apr 2015 · 2 yrs

Associate at Cognizant, Dec 2009 \- Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Senior Programmer at Syntel, Apr 2008 \- Dec 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

Programmer at Syntel, Jun 2006 \- Mar 2008 · 1 yr 10 mos

## Education

Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Bachelor of Engineering \(BE\), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Anna University, Chennai

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