My name is Mihir Dhakan and I am a Data engineer based in Toronto, Canada who loves to mingle with Data to achieve a positive business impact. My engagements involve end-to-end from requirements gathering, data modelling and data flow design, mapping document creation, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) development, testing, Production deployment and support (bug fixes and/or enhancements). Specializes in Hadoop Eco-system components such as Hive, Sqoop, HDFS, Big Data, ETL, Data Analysis and Data Warehousing. Has a broad exposure in various industries such as Banking, Finance and Media.
Currently, I am working with Tata Consultancy Services, where I lead ETL & Data driven projects. I get a chance to use my superpowers to provide a better data insights and based on which customer-centric decisions can be taken.
When I am not trying to build a data-pipeline, you can find me exercising to maximize gains, playng lego with my champ, writing blogs, or escaping reality in another country.
Below I have illustrated a timeline of my work experiences. For a brief overview of my most important tech-driven roles, check out my résumé.
Lead various data projects involving HR, Finance, Customer Analytics domain.
Lead various data warehouse projects with in-house as well as vendor driven pace involving (GCFR) Control Flow Framework (In-house Framework), Data Stage, Teradata, HDFS, Spark, Hive.
Extensively using Teradata Database and various in-house built Frameworks for ELT, data analysis and data discovery across the projects involving Audit, Risk domains.
Perform Data analysis & Data Mining using multiple RDBMS, Moreover, designing and implementing ETL Pipelines for Customer centric data driven projects.
Extensively used Teradata Database & GCFR Framework for ELT across the project for concluding the data mining results.Involved in data validation during UV - User Verification with Business Users.
Involved in building Enterprise Data warehouse for Media domain client based in Sydney, Australia. Involved in building Datastage Jobs, data model, testing phases.
Participate in preparing the application stages. Designing and developing Datastage Jobs. Application of Data warehousing concepts (Dimensions,SCD,Facts) in designing data model. Also, Providing System Test Support during System Test phase.