SURAJ KANDUKURI

surajkandukuri@gmail.com | 405-771-6915 | Linked In

Innovative, Full Stack technology professional with over 12 years of experience leading product solutions
across multiple domains. Experienced in combining technical acumen and leadership skills in building data
ecosystems to build products to match value proposition, improve performance, enhance optimization,
revenue generation with focus on Return on Investment (ROI), User Adoption and Scalability.

Areas of Expertise
Agnostic Data Models | Data Lake | Data Warehouse | Performance Tuning | Data Compliance | Data Story
Telling (Erwin, SQL Data modeler) | Data Governance(Axon) | Data Cataloging(EDC, Boomi)| Data
Movement(Informatica, Dell Boomi, Talend, Azure Data Factory) |Cloud (AWS, Azure, Snowflake) | BI
Platforms (PowerBI, MicroStrategy, Tableau) |

 Excellent track record in evaluating enterprise strategy and vision to cloud architecture.
 Proven track record in Understanding business application portfolios, processes and priorities and use
this knowledge to design data architectures and solutions helping teams to discover, aggregate , perform
analysis to address the need
 Proven track record to effectively gather , assisting in prioritizing user requirements from  sources ,
going beyond user requests to understand the need to extract most valuable product(mvp) and ability to
effectively collaborate in cross functional setup 
 Received Commendations for a customized successful development workflow within agile framework
that results in user adoption to ~90%, reduces follow up changes by ~60% , achieves single version of
truth, reduces QA life cycle by ~50%
 Proven ability of strong analytical and reasoning skills resulting in  designing and delivering   clear,
robust, flexible architectures
 Experience in developing, maintaining and promoting technical best methods , standards, and reference
architecture governing database design and change management.
 Proven Track Record in working with/creating and implementing reporting templates, report design ,
color schemes, data flow, visualizations.
 Excellent track record in coupling Data stories to Visual stories.
 Experience in catering visual story telling for Real Time, Operational, Analytical Reporting
 Proven track record to release, enhance and/or maintain products with CI/CD
 Experience in defining and implementing Standard Operating Procedures(SOPs), Frameworks for
Analytics Departments making cloud transition or in on-prem setup such as user management,
Development/QA/Production standards, Data Acquisition, Security, Storage, Integration (in-
house, 3rd party)
 Worked in delivering dashboards in Agile and Waterfall models
 Proven Track Record to deliver effective and easy to adapt data models in both star, snowflake schema.
 Expertise in writing, validating automated, system generated SQL queries.
 Proven Track record in collaboration with different teams in the organization to align, delivery and
maintenance of the products.
 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

asTech d.b.a Repairify, Dallas, TX December 2020 – present

Sr Solutions Architect

Automotive Industry’s leading service provider for vehicle electronic systems. Data Driven Business Intelligence
Products are delivered by Analytics Department.

 Setup and execution of Procurement Process that includes RFP Questionnaire, Vendor
Communications, Vendor Score carding, Proof of Concept Planning and Execution to modernize
Repairify Data and Analytics Program Toolset
 Regular Cadence with Business, Product Owners to document analytics needs, mock up
development(sign off before actual dashboard/report developments) and co-ordination with
Data movement team, communication framework design and implementation.
 Using Erwin Data modeler developed data models that can be expanded to enterprise data
model (conformed dimensions , fact less facts, subject area specific facts)
 Architect ed and Developed application that saves ~60% of salesforce yearly costs by
ingesting images that are saved in salesforce cloud to s3 using iPaas and PowerBI
dashboard for auditing purposes(pictures are taken at job site by asTech technicians to
document the execution of a procedure as per the OEM standards)
 Increased Operational efficiency by 6% (across ~500 technicians) to display available
OEM tool using API integration via iPaas and Hyper Intelligence card (historically OEM
tools are licensed to be installed on a windows virtual machine and 600+ vm’s are
currently managed using virtual machine manager and technician had to manually pick
a VM based on trial and error vs a newer system implemented using guacamole)
 Data monetisation by extracting valuable information from vehicle estimates(estimates
that are written when a car goes to a body shop for a repair by estimators, industry avg
is 20estimates per car per accident) generating a revenue of ~0.30-.35$ per record
 Real Time Reporting embedded in to asTech Duo App that exposes the data from the
data warehouse to provide valuable insights to the customer(body shops) and
technicians such as recommendation of OEM or Aftermarket Scan tools and its
efficiency of DTC Scans (because not all scan tools are efficient across all year,make
and models that are active)
 In the Process of developing workflows to implement enterprise, departmental , self
service capable analytics by using dataset certifications , data stewards, data
governance
 Reduced the Run Time of long taking ETL processes using dynamic warehouse sizing
from 2hrs to 15min @ job and we have around 45 ETL packages

 Architect’d and designed data pipelines for real time integration between salesforce field
service lightning, snowflake, Dispatch softwares.
 Created required schema objects such as attributes(customers,facility,scan tools …),
transformations(last year, calendar year to date, month to date and so on), DAX Queries,
Power Queries, Data sets and facts to match business definitions to complex schema objects
such as attribute roles, compound attributes.
  Using Write back functionality developed application that ingests technician comments
on OEM Scan reports in to data lake and data warehouse consumed by MicroStrategy
and PowerBI for valuable insights such as standardizing the recommendations given by
astech technicians(which was done using a shared excel sheet saved on a shared
folder) powered by Dell Boomi iPaas Ecosystem

DFW Airport, Dallas, TX April 2020- November 2020

Data Consultant

 Deep Dive on multiple OLTP systems Data to build a Data model to accommodate irregular
operations, real time customer experience, visibility to on-going and scheduled maintenance
tasks, inventory tracking.
 Detail Documentation of Source System Analysis
 Working closely with Data scientists to pull in Input variables, data cleansing activities

Solera Holdings, Westlake, TX Oct 2017- April 2020

Business Intelligence Architect

Key Contributions
 Integrated Sales Force data with existing data lake which is then consumed by MicroStrategy to create
Zero Click Intelligence HyperCard that is deployed as Chrome extension empowering Sales Team by
giving back their research time up to 60% with a projection to bring in at a minimum of 20% in
additional sales
 Created a Scheduler task to run on a routine that pulls in data stored in flat files and excel workbooks
on shared network drive using python scripts created and maintained by external and internal
decentralized teams to be consumed by PowerBI dashboard to track the progress on the web and
mobile devices used by Senior Executive Leadership and Finance teams for workforce planning ,
finance planning replacing 30man hours per week.
 Delivered Product for Parts Manufacturer to identify missed opportunity in Parts Catalog brining
visibility of lost opportunity ranging in 500K to 1million$ sales per part category by combining data
from multiple solera assets such as confirmed fixes, invoices, parts ordering system, point of sale
systems and displayed them using Tableau Dashboards , Power BI Dashboards and MicroStrategy
Dossiers.
 Lead a Decentralized Team of 5 Data Scientists delivering actionable insights in predicting Customer
Churn, impact of Ride Sharing Services on Parts, Gap Analysis in Parts Catalog displayed in Power BI
Dashboards.
 Collaborated with a Cross Functional teams to bring visionary products that are part of “Shop of the
Future” initiative into reality by reflecting the needs of stakeholders, supply and demand planning.
 Integrated Splunk Log data into data lake to call external APIs using python that return geo locations
which is used to identify patterns and contractual geo location to identify product subscribers gaming
the system empowering compliance team members in bringing a forecasted additional sales of
100,000$ Annual Contract Value using MicroStrategy transaction Services, MicroStrategy Dossiers,
MicroStrategy Hyper Intelligence
  Architected an agnostic Data model and data ingestion to display key performance indicators from
multiple solera assets spread across multiple domains accessed via Tableau Dashboard to support an
RFP with a minimum 1,00,000 $ in Annual Contract Value.
 Predicted to save at least 200,000$ in contractual fines by transforming a legacy flat file delivery
system with an easy to use, interactive web based online portal for users developed in Tableau

Denovo Services LLC

Business Intelligence Consultant Aug 2009 – September 2017
Multiple Locations
Key Contributions
 Architected and Implemented MicroStrategy Distribution Services RSD delivering insights directly to
customer emails saving 40-man hours/week built using MicroStrategy on Oracle with Informatica.
 Operational Dashboard used by 95% of Truck Drivers to help their customers with Data Driven
inventory management that are consumed via iPad or web.
 Implemented Dashboard displaying KPIs for Executive Leadership Team Members to run day to day
activities which can be accessed on iPad, Mobile.
 Empowered Account Reps with easy access to KPIs using Data Wrangling, Dashboards
 Led Teams and Projects in delivering easy to use and cost-effective Analytical Solutions

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Master of Science, Computer Science | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI (2008)

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Information Technology | JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (2007)
MicroStrategy Certification: Project Designer | Report Developer | Certified Analyst

TECHNOLOGY PROFILE
 Data Tools:
o Databases: SQL Server 2008,2012,2017, Oracle 11g,12c, Mongo dB v3.6, Snowflake, Hadoop, Amazon
Redshift
o Data Load: Informatica, MSBI, Python, Oracle Data Integrator, Talent, Dell Boomi
o Data Modelling : Erwin, SQL Data Modeler
o IDE: Toad, SQL Developer, PyCharm, Jupiter
o Interface: Rest API, JSON
o Cloud Ecosystem: Amazon S3, Lambda, Web Services, Redshift, salesforce.com, snowpipe
 Business Intelligence tools
o MicroStrategy Product Suite v9,10.4,10.11,2019,2020, 2021
o Tableau Product Suite 9.3, 10.4,2019.2
o Microsoft Power Platform: Power BI Product Suite
 Delivered in
o Web: Google Chrome, IE, Edge, Firefox
o Handheld devices: iPhone, iPad, Android Tablet
o Shared Drive: OneDrive, Intranet
o Integration: Salesforce, SharePoint, ITSM
 Tools
o TFS, JIRA, Confluence, Basecamp, Trello
o GitHub, Bit Bucket
o Office Product Suite
 Programming
 o Python, R, C, Java (Java Script)
 Data Sciences, AI
OpenCV, Tensor flow, Machine Learning Algorithms