Sandeep Balan

Email: balansandeep@gmail.com Phone: +91 80955 76632

Summary

I have been architecting, designing & developing large-scale data products with focus towards delivering actionable
intelligence to stake-holders. Have proven expertise in building, leading & mentoring high performance data teams, as well
as contribute hands-on as a developer. Experience in working across multiple geographies with a global team setup, in both
Fortune 500 enterprises as well as mid size companies.

Highlights:
1) Experienced Data Engineer with success in delivering scalable data\analytics platforms & solutions.
2) Deep hands-on experience in big data architecture, data lakes, traditional enterprise data warehouses & visualization
platforms.
3) Working Knowledge on Machine Learning techniques.
4) Innovative big-picture thinker capable of translating business objectives into strategic data road maps, solutions and
products.
5) Hands-on leadership in all aspects of data engineering & managing team towards delivering projects within defined scope
& deadline.

Key Competencies:
1) BI Tools: Tableau,SAP Business Objects ,Spotfire,SSIS,SSRS
2) Languages: Python, R, SQL, HiveQL, PySpark
3) Database: SQL Server,Sybase ASE,Sybase IQ, HBASE,Mongo
4) Machine Learning Models: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, KNN, Clustering, Dimension Reduction,
Decision Tree, SVM, K-Means, PCA etc.
5) Big Data : Hadoop,Spark,Hive,Microsoft APS,AWS

Experience

Vice President Aug 2015 - Present

Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management
firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes
corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.The project involves developing Data Engineering
and Business Intelligence solutions for the Investment Banking Division and supporting the various Data ,Analytics
and BI platforms across the division.The role involves hands on development,team management and key
stakeholder management across Data Engineering and Data Science functions.

Key Responsibilities:
1) Data Lake on boarding for Big Data Workflows.
2) Creating End to End Data Pipelines for all the analytics and application use cases.
3) Managing the entire Data and BI platforms infrastructure and data workflows.
4) Working with the Data Science Team on Data Analysis\Engineering and Domain SME for their use cases.

Team Size :8

Tech Stack: Sybase IQ,Sybase ASE,SQL Server,Tableau,Business Objects,Hadoop,Spark.

Associate Project Manager Feb 2013 - Aug 2015
emids
Influence Health builds software that helps hospitals and health systems virtually influence prospects and patients
before and after the clinical encounter .The Project involves building an Analytics Product on top of enterprise data
warehouse based on Parallel Data warehouse Platform which enables organizations to meet patients where they
are and engage them in new and better ways.
The product helps Hospitals by targeting the ideal patients for their products and helps the patients by giving them
single comprehensive view of their health information across the care continuum, along with tools that empower
them to better manage their health and live healthier lives.

Key Responsibilities:
1) Setting up the team for development and maintenance tracks.
2) Optimizing the legacy data flows to reduce processing time and improve data quality.
3) Solutionizing the Data Flows ,Enterprise Data Warehouse and Analytics suite for the new product.

Team Size: 12

Tech Stack: MS APS,Spotfire,Tableau,SSIS.

Technology Lead\Consultant May 2011 - Dec 2012

Infosys
This was a part of the Securities Business Platform initiative of NCBC.Data Migration was one of the tracks for this
Business Transformation project which consisted of 11 tracks across 4 geographies. The objective of this track
was to do an As-Is analysis of the current (to be demised) systems and come up with the mapping requirements
along with the new target systems along with the requirements teams for SBP .The scope also involved coming
up with a mitigation plan for the existing Data warehouse model as some of the source were to be demised and
replaced by the new systems. The front office was from Fidessa Systems and the Back Office was Sun Gard
Systems.

Technology Lead\Consultant Aug 2007 - Mar 2011

Infosys
The IBD Reporting project involves maintenance\development of existing Datamart, Reports and Analysis Service
Cubes. The reports and the cubes are used by Finance and Planning department of Investment Banking Division
for managing fees and expenses incurred on various projects; recovery on outstanding receivables;analze cost
and benefits; Client invoicing and collection; Project tracking and Time tracking. Since the data is used by the IBD
higher management for Decision Support, accuracy of the data, Domain knowledge as well as timelines of the
request plays a critical role in this project. The reports are based on the Microsoft Reporting Services and use
Stored procedures for the ETL process.

Database Developer\Consultant Jun 2006 - Jul 2007

Infosys
The project involves migration of Oracle 8i Database to SQL Server 2005 for Merchant Banking Division which
uses an application to track the prospective companies. The application points to Oracle 8i Database. The project
encompasses conversion of all the existing Oracle Database Objects to SQL Server 2005.

Developer\Consultant May 2005 - May 2006

Infosys
GSIBD is the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs & Co.F&P is the Finance and Planning department
in IBD,responsible for managing fees and expenses incurred on various projects; recovery on outstanding
receivables;analze cost and benefits; Client invoicing and collection; Project tracking; Time tracking. An existing
repository of approximately 260 reports play a critical role in supporting the F&P department to carry the above
mentioned activities. The changing business rules within IBD require the continuous enhancements to existing
 reports and development of new reports. The objective of the project is to support the reporting needs of the F& P
department to carry out the above mentioned activities. As the client was shifting from Oracle to Sql Server 2000
hence most of the reports had to be rewritten and also a data mart had to be developed in order to simplify the
reports by incorporating most of the business logic in the data mart itself.

Education

Great Lakes Institute of Management 2017 - 2018

PG in Big Data and Machine Learning, Excellent
Python,R,Spark, Machine Learning , Big Data and Statistics concepts in post graduate program
Academic Portfolio: https://eportfolio.greatlearning.in/sandeep-balan

Govt Engg College Thrissur

Bachelor's Degree(BTech), Production Engineering, A

Vishwadeep Hr Sec School,Durg

Skills

Data Warehousing • Data Modeling • Python • R • Big Data Analytics • Data Visualization • Machine
Learning • Data Engineering • Project Management • Apache Spark