I am Ashish Shukla, a Data Engineering Leader with 14+ years of experience designing, architecting, and scaling enterprise data platforms across Azure and AWS. I specialize in data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, cloud modernization, AI/ML integration, and DevOps-driven CI/CD workflows. I have led customer-facing programs and managed teams, owning architecture decisions and delivery quality. In my current role with PepsiCo India Sustainability, I architect sustainability data models and lead a team of engineers while partnering with data science and business teams to enable GenAI-enabled analytics. My past experiences at Microsoft, Neudesic, HCL, Mindtree, and UST Global have sharpened my ability to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.

Ashish Shukla

I am Ashish Shukla, a Data Engineering Leader with 14+ years of experience designing, architecting, and scaling enterprise data platforms across Azure and AWS. I specialize in data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, cloud modernization, AI/ML integration, and DevOps-driven CI/CD workflows. I have led customer-facing programs and managed teams, owning architecture decisions and delivery quality. In my current role with PepsiCo India Sustainability, I architect sustainability data models and lead a team of engineers while partnering with data science and business teams to enable GenAI-enabled analytics. My past experiences at Microsoft, Neudesic, HCL, Mindtree, and UST Global have sharpened my ability to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.

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I am Ashish Shukla, a Data Engineering Leader with 14+ years of experience designing, architecting, and scaling enterprise data platforms across Azure and AWS. I specialize in data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, cloud modernization, AI/ML integration, and DevOps-driven CI/CD workflows. I have led customer-facing programs and managed teams, owning architecture decisions and delivery quality.

In my current role with PepsiCo India Sustainability, I architect sustainability data models and lead a team of engineers while partnering with data science and business teams to enable GenAI-enabled analytics. My past experiences at Microsoft, Neudesic, HCL, Mindtree, and UST Global have sharpened my ability to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.

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Language

Hindi
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English
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Work Experience

Assoc. Manager Data Engineering at Pepsico India (Sustainability)
January 1, 2024 - October 31, 2025
Provide leadership and management to a team of data engineers, vet designs, mentor engineers, and oversee data modeling and scalable data pipelines for sustainability data across Carbon, Energy, Waste, and Water domains. Build automation and monitoring for data quality KPIs, evolve data platform architecture, productionalize ingestion flows, define SLAs, and collaborate with data science and product teams on solutioning and POC discussions.
Principal Consultant at Neudesic India
February 29, 2024 - February 29, 2024
Provide architectural leadership for technology solutions, data architectures, data warehouses, cloud and infrastructure initiatives. Design and develop high-volume data ingestion and ETL components; establish data governance and security standards; drive cloud data warehouse strategy, and align architecture with business priorities. Lead whiteboard sessions with stakeholders and explore emerging technologies.
Service Engineer at Microsoft
August 31, 2022 - August 31, 2022
Build efficient data models, interface with business customers to gather requirements, deliver metrics and dashboards, automate reporting processes, and own end-to-end deployment with CI/CD. Collaborate with BI, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists; ensure data quality and scalability; contribute to agile delivery.
Senior Software Engineer at HCL Technologies
August 31, 2018 - August 31, 2018
Design and develop large-scale distributed software services, ensure test coverage, follow SDLC, and support production with reliable automation and monitoring. Contributed to agile workflows and end-to-end feature deployment with version control.
Senior Software Engineer at Mindtree Ltd
November 30, 2017 - November 30, 2017
Requirement analysis, design and development of data processing solutions, handle ETL pipelines for large data volumes, interact with clients to gather requirements and perform impact analysis.
Associate Manager – Data Engineering at PepsiCo India (Sustainability)
January 1, 2024 - Present
Architected and delivered enterprise sustainability data models (Carbon, Energy, Water, Waste, ESG). Led a team of data engineers, owning design reviews, delivery, and technical quality. Built and scaled Azure Databricks, Fabric, ADF, Synapse, Delta Lake pipelines. Implemented data quality, monitoring, and SLA frameworks for production systems. Partnered with data science and business teams on GenAI-enabled analytics.
Principal Consultant at Neudesic India
August 1, 2022 - February 1, 2024
Provided data platform and cloud architecture leadership for enterprise clients. Designed scalable ingestion and ETL frameworks using Azure Databricks, ADF, Airflow. Defined data governance, security, and architecture standards. Led cross-functional technical design and delivery discussions.
Service Engineer (Data Engineering) at Microsoft
August 1, 2018 - August 1, 2022
Built and optimized enterprise data models, ETL pipelines, and BI solutions. Delivered end-to-end analytics solutions by collaborating with business stakeholders. Owned scalability, reliability, and CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps. Provided technical guidance to BI Engineers and Data Scientists. Awarded Microsoft Rockstar Award for technical excellence.
Senior Software Engineer at HCL Technologies
November 1, 2017 - August 1, 2018
Developed distributed data processing solutions using AWS Redshift, S3, EMR, PySpark. Improved reliability through automation, monitoring, and performance tuning. Worked end-to-end across SDLC and Agile workflows.
Senior Software Engineer at Mindtree Ltd
May 1, 2015 - November 1, 2017
Designed and implemented data models and ETL pipelines using Spark and AWS. Worked directly with clients on requirements analysis and solution delivery. Supported deployments, change management, and production operations.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering at AKTU
July 1, 2008 - June 1, 2012
PGCML Artificial Intelligence at International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Post Graduate Certification in Machine Learning (AI) at International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Bachelor of Engineering at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow
January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2012

Qualifications

Rockstar Award
January 11, 2030 - October 31, 2025
Azure Databricks Cookbook – Packt Publication (Contributor/Author)
January 11, 2030 - October 31, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Consumer Goods, Energy & Utilities, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Manufacturing, Retail, Education

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