Resume | Manikandan Jayaprakash - Senior Data Engineer & AWS Technical Owner

Professional Summary

Senior Data Engineer and Technical Owner with proven experience taking complex AI and data solution components from design through to build, test, deployment and continuous improvement across enterprise Snowflake and AWS data platforms. Hands-on background delivering production Generative AI systems — RAG pipelines with semantic retrieval, prompt engineering and intelligent automation using Amazon Bedrock (Claude) — alongside a medallion-architecture ELT platform handling 10TB+ of data and 10B+ rows. Strong track record building trusted, discoverable and reusable data products, translating business requirements into production-ready outputs, providing squad-level technical leadership, and mentoring engineers across AI, data and cloud disciplines.

Core Competencies

AI & Data

Generative AI / RAG Pipelines
Semantic Retrieval & Prompt Engineering
Amazon Bedrock (Claude)
AI Evaluation & Agentic AI
Data Products & Analytics Engineering

Cloud Platforms

AWS (Lambda, S3, EC2, Bedrock)
Snowflake (SnowPro Certified)
Databricks & Microsoft Fabric
AWS CDK & Infrastructure as Code
Azure Integration

Engineering

Python & SQL (Expert)
ELT / ETL Orchestration
Kafka Streaming
dbt, Matillion, Airflow
CI/CD & DataOps

Leadership

Technical Ownership & Architecture
Squad-Level Leadership (7+ engineers)
Mentoring & Knowledge Transfer
Stakeholder Engagement
Agile / SAFe 5

Key Achievements

Production Generative AI Platform: Architected and delivered an AI-driven Jira triage and intelligent automation platform using Amazon Bedrock (Claude), RAG pipelines and Snowflake Cortex AI.
10TB+ Enterprise Data Platform: Own medallion-architecture ingestion and transformation pipelines processing 10B+ rows and 10TB+ of data across Snowflake and AWS for 6+ enterprise utility clients.
Air New Zealand Impact: 6 years building the Carina reservation platform with Kafka streaming reducing call-centre workload by 60%+.
Awards & Recognition: MVP (Gentrack NZ), Golden Guru (TCS), Best Developer (InterGlobe).

Work Experience

Senior Data Engineer – Technical Owner, Data Analytics

Gentrack Limited NZ | Utilities / Energy

2023 – Present

Own end-to-end delivery of complex AI and data products across enterprise Snowflake and AWS platform handling 10B+ rows and 10TB+ of data.
Architected and delivered production Generative AI intelligent automation platform using Amazon Bedrock (Claude), RAG pipelines and Snowflake Cortex AI for Jira triage and ticket summarisation.
Provide squad-level technical leadership for cross-functional team of 7 engineers across Data Engineering, Platform Engineering and Business Intelligence.
Perform Snowflake administration: RBAC, warehouse scaling, cost optimisation, change tracking, and production recovery runbooks.
Deliver 40+ enterprise reports and 15+ Power BI dashboards across billing, metering, and finance domains.
Award: Most Valuable Player (MVP), Gentrack NZ

Associate Consultant / Team Lead

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) | Client: Travelport – Airline Reservations

2021 – 2023

Led team of 4 engineers and mentored 50+ developers across enterprise data integration and software delivery projects.
Developed ETL and backend components for Travelport's airline reservation platform; built MongoDB Audit Trail framework for enterprise transaction traceability.
Improved ETL throughput and production stability through performance tuning and memory analysis.
Award: Golden Guru Award, Tata Consultancy Services

Senior Software Engineer

TPF Software – Air New Zealand | Aviation

2015 – 2021

Implemented Kafka-based streaming for real-time auto-reseating during disruptions, reducing call-centre workload by 60%+.
Led Economy Stretch (Project Z), integrating premium seat product across UI, APIs, backend logic and aircraft configs.
Delivered zero-downtime performance optimisations on Carina reservation platform supporting airline operations.
Award: Performance Excellence Recognition, Air New Zealand

Senior Software Engineer

InterGlobe Technologies | Clients: Travelport & American Express

2009 – 2015

Travelport: revamped fare pricing logic improving speed by ~30%; implemented large-currency ticketing enhancements across 40+ markets.
American Express: designed 365-day fraud modelling logic; built agency-level payment restriction systems reducing payment fraud.
Award: Best Developer Award, InterGlobe Technologies

Professional Certifications

Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

Associate

AI Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

AIF-C01

SnowPro Associate

Snowflake

Platform Certification

Fabric Data Engineer

Microsoft

Associate

Databricks Fundamentals

Databricks

Data Engineering

Matillion ETL

Matillion

Architecture

SAFe 5 Agilist

Scaled Agile

Leadership

Apache Airflow

Apache Software

Fundamentals

Education

Bachelor of Engineering – Electronics and Communication Engineering

Kings College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India (2005 – 2009)

Languages: English (Fluent) | Tamil (Fluent)

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