Anand Prakash Singh
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Drove MTTR improvements from 2 hours to under 20 minutes by addressing build failures

Incident & MTTR

Situation: During Engineering Manager, DevOps & Cloud Services at Quantium Analytics Pvt Ltd, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Drove MTTR improvements from 2 hours to under 20 minutes by addressing build failures, resource contention, and deployment bottlenecks.

Result: Outcome included 2 hours, 20 minutes, under 20 minutes, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Designed and delivered 40+ Spark/PySpark pipelines across EMR

Situation: During Practice Lead - Multi Cloud Managed Services & Data Engineering at Confidential, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Designed and delivered 40+ Spark/PySpark pipelines across EMR, Glue, Dataproc, and Dataflow, processing 5+ TB/day with 60% faster batch completion.

Result: Outcome included 60%, 5+ TB/day, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Reduced deployment lead time by 35% and rollback time by 50% through pipeline optimization

Situation: During Engineering Manager, DevOps & Cloud Services at Quantium Analytics Pvt Ltd, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Reduced deployment lead time by 35% and rollback time by 50% through pipeline optimization, release templates, and progressive delivery controls.

Result: Outcome included 35%, 50%, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Built the Multi-Cloud Data & AI Engineering function from 0 to 8 engineers in the first two quarters and scaled to 18+ engineers across platform

Situation: During Practice Lead - Multi Cloud Managed Services & Data Engineering at Confidential, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Built the Multi-Cloud Data & AI Engineering function from 0 to 8 engineers in the first two quarters and scaled to 18+ engineers across platform, data, and reliability tracks.

Result: Outcome included 18+ engineers, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Owned 12+ migration waves from on-prem (Oracle

Situation: During Practice Lead - Multi Cloud Managed Services & Data Engineering at Confidential, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Owned 12+ migration waves from on-prem (Oracle, SQL Server, Hadoop, legacy ETL) to AWS/Azure/GCP, migrating 200+ TB and 1,000+ production jobs with controlled cutovers.

Result: Outcome included 200+ TB, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Implemented orchestration standards across MWAA (Airflow)

Situation: During Practice Lead - Multi Cloud Managed Services & Data Engineering at Confidential, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Implemented orchestration standards across MWAA (Airflow), Azure Data Factory, and Cloud Composer, governing 100+ DAGs/pipelines with SLA-aware alerting.

Result: Outcome included 100+ DAGs, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Implemented data quality gates with Great Expectations and custom PySpark checks

Situation: During Practice Lead - Multi Cloud Managed Services & Data Engineering at Confidential, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Implemented data quality gates with Great Expectations and custom PySpark checks, maintaining 99.9% data accuracy SLAs across business-critical datasets.

Result: Outcome included 99.9%, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Introduced DataOps engineering practices (unit/integration/E2E tests

Incident & MTTR

Situation: During Practice Lead - Multi Cloud Managed Services & Data Engineering at Confidential, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Introduced DataOps engineering practices (unit/integration/E2E tests, contract tests, release templates), improving pipeline reliability and reducing production incidents by 55%.

Result: Outcome included 55%, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Executed FinOps optimization plans (spot compute

Situation: During Practice Lead - Multi Cloud Managed Services & Data Engineering at Confidential, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Executed FinOps optimization plans (spot compute, autoscaling, tiered storage, query tuning), reducing monthly platform costs by 40%.

Result: Outcome included 40%, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Started with a lean DevOps pod and scaled it to 10+ engineers supporting multi-cloud platforms

Situation: During Engineering Manager, DevOps & Cloud Services at Quantium Analytics Pvt Ltd, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Started with a lean DevOps pod and scaled it to 10+ engineers supporting multi-cloud platforms, release engineering, and SRE operations.

Result: Outcome included 10+ engineers, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Built cloud-native data engineering foundations on AWS Glue

Situation: During Engineering Manager, DevOps & Cloud Services at Quantium Analytics Pvt Ltd, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Built cloud-native data engineering foundations on AWS Glue, EMR, and S3 supporting 10+ TB/day for retail and e-commerce analytics workloads.

Result: Outcome included 10+ TB/day, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Operationalized Airflow on MWAA and hybrid schedulers

Incident & MTTR

Situation: During Engineering Manager, DevOps & Cloud Services at Quantium Analytics Pvt Ltd, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Operationalized Airflow on MWAA and hybrid schedulers, managing 50+ DAGs with automated retry, dependency controls, and incident routing.

Result: Outcome included 50+ DAGs, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Implemented S3 data lake zoning

Situation: During Engineering Manager, DevOps & Cloud Services at Quantium Analytics Pvt Ltd, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Implemented S3 data lake zoning, lifecycle, and archival controls to improve governance and reduce storage cost by 30%.

Result: Outcome included 30%, as documented in the source resume bullet.

Established dimensional modeling standards (Star/Snowflake/SCD2) that improved BI query performance for 500+ users

Situation: During Engineering Manager, DevOps & Cloud Services at Quantium Analytics Pvt Ltd, the platform needed stronger scale, quality, or reliability.

Task: I owned the delivery path for this scope and aligned implementation with business and engineering goals.

Action: Established dimensional modeling standards (Star/Snowflake/SCD2) that improved BI query performance for 500+ users.

Result: Outcome included 500+ users, as documented in the source resume bullet.