Senior Data & AI Engineering Leader with 8+ years of experience driving cloud modernization, data platform transformation, AI automation, agentic AI solutions, and large-scale migration programs across Fortune 500 clients. Skilled in Databricks, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, AI workflow automation, prompt engineering, LangChain, and MLflow. Experienced in leading delivery teams, shaping technology strategy, conducting executive workshops, and guiding enterprises through AI adoption and modernization roadmaps.

Valli Tata

Senior Data & AI Engineering Leader with 8+ years of experience driving cloud modernization, data platform transformation, AI automation, agentic AI solutions, and large-scale migration programs across Fortune 500 clients. Skilled in Databricks, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, AI workflow automation, prompt engineering, LangChain, and MLflow. Experienced in leading delivery teams, shaping technology strategy, conducting executive workshops, and guiding enterprises through AI adoption and modernization roadmaps.

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Senior Data & AI Engineering Leader with 8+ years of experience driving cloud modernization, data platform transformation, AI automation, agentic AI solutions, and large-scale migration programs across Fortune 500 clients. Skilled in Databricks, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, AI workflow automation, prompt engineering, LangChain, and MLflow. Experienced in leading delivery teams, shaping technology strategy, conducting executive workshops, and guiding enterprises through AI adoption and modernization roadmaps.

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Work Experience

Lead Data Engineer at Perficient
November 1, 2021 - November 18, 2025
Led high-impact data engineering projects, architecting scalable data pipelines and enabling real-time analytics across AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks environments. Directed cross-functional teams, delivered cost-optimized cloud data architectures, implemented CDC with Delta Lake, and established robust governance with Unity Catalog. Drove ML and analytics initiatives using SageMaker and graph analytics pipelines, supporting business decisions for clients such as Enterprise, Midtown Athletic Club, Porsche NA, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
Senior Data Engineer at Nike Inc
November 30, 2021 - November 30, 2021
Developed comprehensive data engineering solutions leveraging AWS to streamline data workflows, ETL processes, and real-time ingestion; implemented ETL pipelines with Airflow and AWS Glue; built Redshift data warehousing and Neptune graph modeling; established real-time data ingestion from Adobe sources to RDS and Neptune; migrated on-prem Airflow to MWAA; implemented monitoring with CloudWatch and Slack; contributed to data ingestion endpoints and architecture for scalable analytics.
Data Engineer at Walmart Labs
May 31, 2021 - May 31, 2021
Automated tasks in on-prem Hadoop clusters, optimized Hive queries with ORC, tuned Hadoop clusters, automated inter-cluster replication and backup processes, and migrated petabytes of data to GCP (GCS and BigQuery). Implemented Spark validations, enhanced data reliability, and improved storage costs and query performance through retention policies and rollback strategies.
Data Engineer at Genpact, India
December 31, 2018 - December 31, 2018
Loaded unstructured and semi-structured data into Hadoop using partitioning and bucketing strategies; developed complex Hive queries with Tez; configured Spark cores for RDD/DataFrame transformations; created partitioned Hive tables and custom UDFs to optimize query performance and latency; streamlined ETL pipelines with Azure Data Factory and Spark caching.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science at University of Central Missouri
January 1, 2019 - May 1, 2020
Bachelor’s in Technology (Electrical and Electronics) at HNTU Hyderabad
August 1, 2012 - May 1, 2016

Qualifications

Databricks Data Engineer Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 18, 2025
Databricks Hadoop Migration | Unity Catalog Essentials
January 11, 2030 - November 18, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services