Selva

I build and scale data platforms that drive business value
Lead Data Engineer | 10+ years | Proven: $150K revenue, $25K cost savings, 80% error reduction

About Me

Lead Data Engineer and Manager with 10+ years of experience specializing in building, scaling, and optimizing high-impact data platforms and full-stack SaaS applications. Proven history of driving cross-organizational technical strategy, establishing engineering standards (Cloud/ETL), and delivering quantifiable business value.

Education

Master of Science in Information Systems
The University of Texas at Arlington
December 2017 | GPA: 4.0/4.0

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
R.M.K. Engineering College, Anna University
April 2012 | GPA: 8.45/10

Certifications & Awards

AWS Certified Developer – Professional
AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Wayne Watts Graduate Fellowship – 2017
Award for "Caring about the Craft" and "Caring about the business"

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Companies

Available For

Full-Time Roles

Lead Data Engineer, Data Platform Engineering Manager, or Technical Strategy roles at growth-stage companies.

Consulting

Data platform architecture, cost optimization, and ETL standardization for startups and scale-ups.

Advisory

Technical strategy and architecture decisions for data-heavy SaaS products and platforms.

Speaking

Conference talks and technical workshops on data engineering, cost optimization, and system design.

How I Can Help

Data Platform Architecture

Design scalable pipelines for millions of events/day

Cost optimization through database migrations and infrastructure choices

Data quality & validation at every layer

SaaS Development

Full-stack systems (backend, API, frontend)

Multi-tenant architecture and product scaling

Zero-downtime deployments and CI/CD pipeline design

Technical Leadership

Team scaling and engineering standards

Technical strategy and architecture decisions

Engineering culture and best practices

Professional Experience

Clear Link Technologies, LLC

Data Platform Services Engineering Manager / Senior Data Engineer

March 2018 – Present | USA

  • SaaS Product Architect/Lead: Architected and led the full-stack development (Gin Golang, Vue.js/React) of the company's first SaaS data product, generating a sustained $150K in monthly profit across multiple partner sites.
  • Technical Leadership: Coordinated architecture and provided technical solutions across multiple engineering teams, acting as a technical liaison to define organizational direction and remove critical roadblocks.
  • Standardization & Governance: Drove organization-wide standards by setting formal cloud standards and standardizing the core ETL process (Airflow/Docker).
  • Cost Optimization: Led a major Graph DB migration (Neo4j to AWS Neptune) resulting in $25K in annual cost savings.
  • CI/CD & DevOps: Engineered a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) process using Bitbucket and AWS tools (S3, ECS, CodePipeline, CodeBuild/Deploy) to enable zero-downtime deployment.

Sykes Enterprises (India) Limited

Senior Software Engineer

January 2021 – September 2022 | India

  • Designed and developed a customer journey platform to profile customers, effectively reducing queue time before sales and support interaction.
  • Established code quality and development standards for continuous development, integration, and deployment within the team.

Tata Consultancy Services

Data Management Developer

October 2012 – December 2015 | India

  • Developed workflows, export, and import jobs with extensive test cases for IBM MDM platform, successfully deploying to production with no downtime.
  • Managed data models and upgraded IBM MDM PIM from version 9.0 to 11.0 for Talk Talk-UK.

Technical Skills

Programming & Core

Golang (Gin) Python (Django) Vue.js React Java Scala JavaScript

Data Engineering

Airflow Kafka Spark Streaming Hive Spark ETL/ELT GraphQL

Cloud & DevOps

AWS S3 Redshift Lambda ECS RDS API Gateway Jenkins Docker CI/CD

Databases & Tools

Neo4J AWS Neptune MySQL Oracle MongoDB Git

Key Achievements & Impact

SaaS Product Development

Architected and led full-stack development (Golang/Gin, Vue.js, React) of company's first SaaS data product from concept to production.

Impact: Generated sustained $150K monthly profit across multiple partner sites.

Graph DB Migration

Led enterprise-scale migration from Neo4j to AWS Neptune, including architecture redesign, data migration strategy, and team coordination.

Impact: Achieved $25K annual cost savings while improving scalability.

ETL Standardization

Drove organization-wide ETL/ELT standardization using Airflow and Docker, establishing formal cloud standards and best practices.

Impact: Improved team efficiency and reduced deployment errors across all data pipelines.

CI/CD Pipeline

Engineered automated CI/CD process using Bitbucket and AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, enabling seamless deployments.

Impact: Achieved zero-downtime deployments and 10x faster release cycles.

Self-Hosted Cloud Infrastructure

Built a private cloud storage solution using Raspberry Pi with Nextcloud, implementing Tailscale VPN for secure remote access across devices without port forwarding.

Impact: Created secure, self-hosted alternative to commercial cloud storage with full data ownership and zero-trust network architecture.

Latest Articles

Aug 2025 • 12 min read

Building a Provider Coordination Platform at Scale

How we built a proprietary data platform that coordinates between providers using their own data. The architecture decisions, scaling challenges, database migration from Neo4j to AWS Neptune, and how we went from manual deployments to zero-downtime CI/CD.

Platform Architecture Real Experience Scaling
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2022-2023 • 13 min read

Neo4j to AWS Neptune: Migration Story

How we migrated 150GB of customer touchpoint data from Neo4j to AWS Neptune, achieving $25K annual cost savings while maintaining reliability. Real migration process, what went wrong, and how we fixed it.

Graph Databases AWS Cost Optimization
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Real-world journey • 12 min read

From Elastic Beanstalk to Zero-Downtime Deployments

How we replaced manual Elastic Beanstalk deployments with an automated CI/CD pipeline using Bitbucket and AWS CodePipeline. Real story of eliminating downtime, automating deployments, and the problems we solved along the way.

CI/CD DevOps AWS
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Real migration • 11 min read

From AWS SWF to Apache Airflow: Fixing Pipeline Failures

How we replaced AWS Simple Workflow Service with Apache Airflow + Docker to fix timeout issues, data errors, and retry problems. Real story of reducing pipeline errors by 80% and achieving full observability.

Apache Airflow Data Pipelines Error Reduction
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Featured GitHub Projects

Open source work and featured projects showcasing full-stack engineering across data, backend, and DevOps domains.

Spendsense

Personal finance tracking and spending analytics application.

Full-Stack Finance
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AWS CDK Contributions

Open source contributions to AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) infrastructure-as-code.

AWS Infrastructure
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Raspberry Pi Setup

Automated Resume to Portfolio generation and deployment on Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi Automation
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Let's Connect

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