Senior Data & AI Engineering Professional

Reno Rajan Christy

14+ years engineering enterprise data & AI platforms across banking, cloud, risk, and intelligent automation.

Enterprise Data Architecture
Data Modeling & Warehousing
Cloud Migration & Integration
Business Intelligence & Analytics
Banking Technology Management
Data Quality Assurance
AI & GenAI Platform Engineering
Risk & Decisioning Systems
Microsoft Fabric Azure Synapse Azure Databricks Snowflake Generative AI / LLM Cloud Data Architecture
Public Trust Federal Security Clearance
Open to C2C Contracts
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About Me

Senior Data & AI Engineering professional with deep expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, and Snowflake — building Medallion architectures, real-time pipelines, and GenAI/LLM integrations (OCI GenAI, Azure OpenAI, RAG). Proven track record at Credit One Bank, U.S. Bank, and J.P. Morgan Chase across data engineering design, decisioning systems, and AI data platform solutioning. Strong AI data engineering, Python, PySpark, SAS, and SQL skills with hands-on Apache Airflow and enterprise data governance. MS in Management Information Systems (Data Science) from Oklahoma State University with a perfect 4.0 GPA.

14+
Years of experience
4.0
MS GPA — Oklahoma State
20+
Professional certifications
Professional Experience
Sr Data Engineer — AcquityNode (Client: U.S. Bank) Oct 2022 – Present
Minneapolis, MN · Public Trust Federal Clearance
Architected end-to-end Microsoft Fabric Medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) for real-time credit card authorizations across the bank's full card portfolio. Built Snowflake CDC pipelines using Snowpipe, Streams, and Tasks. Integrated OCI GenAI and Azure OpenAI into Python data pipelines. Delivered IoT edge-to-cloud solution achieving 95% infrastructure cost reduction. Enhanced high-availability enterprise solution integrating mainframe, IBM MQ, TIBCO, Kafka, and DB2 in a dockerized CI/CD environment.
Microsoft FabricSnowflakeAzure SynapseOCI GenAIPySparkKafkaIoT HubSAS
Sr Data Engineer — J.P. Morgan Chase (Quantitative Analytics) Jan 2022 – Oct 2022
Seattle, WA
Spearheaded Customer Journey Analytics platform migration from Bryter CX to Adobe CJA. Designed and implemented ETL feeds for IVR, ATM, Teller, Card, Survey, and Alert delivery channels on Teradata, Oracle, MySQL, and Hortonworks Hive. Automated data extraction via Python for Adobe API integration. Built IVR forecast volume prediction using SARIMA models in Python and PySpark.
Adobe CJATeradataOracleHivePythonPySparkSARIMA
Data Engineer II — Credit One Bank Aug 2019 – Jan 2022
Nevada, USA
Managed complex RDBMS Data Lake-ODS ecosystem with 700+ stored procedures supporting $3 billion in annual decisioning. Delivered 180+ major data quality fixes across 3,600+ tables. Engineered 45 ETL solutions end-to-end for marketing campaign analytics. Developed Python automation for credit risk, fraud detection, and marketing segmentation. Supported Credit Line increase pipelines, applicant fraud flagging, and behavioral scoring.
SQLSSISSASPythonTableauData GovernanceCredit Risk
Assistant Manager IT & Specialist IT Officer — Canara (Syndicate) Bank Jul 2014 – Oct 2016
India · Reserve Bank of India regulatory liaison
Primary liaison for IT risk assurance and regulatory reporting to the Reserve Bank of India under the SPARC program. Led IT procurement of USD 70M per annum. Managed 7 ancillary app integrations to the Core Banking Solution including ISO 20022 financial messaging. Led process improvement delivering ~$2M in monetary benefit.
Regulatory ReportingISO 20022Core BankingIT RiskSQL
Software Engineering Analyst — Accenture Jan 2013 – May 2014
India · Clients: KPN, Telus Canada
Developed data warehouse reporting and QA solutions using SSIS, SSAS MDX, and SQL. Built end-to-end ETL flows from source to staging, data vault, data marts, and OBIEE reporting. Performed test planning, defect tracking, and incident reporting for IVR-CTI telecom projects.
SSISSSASMDXSQLETLOBIEE
Skills & Expertise
Microsoft Fabric / Azure Synapse & Cloud Platforms
Microsoft Fabric Azure Synapse Analytics OneLake / Lakehouse Azure Databricks Azure Data Factory Snowflake AWS (S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift) GCP BigQuery Delta Lake ADLS Gen2 Azure IoT Hub
Data Warehousing, Modelling & Architecture
Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) Dimensional Modelling Star & Snowflake Schemas ERD / Entity Relationship Design Data Vault 3NF Normalization SCD (Slowly Changing Dimensions) ODS Design Data Lakehouse OLAP / OLTP
AI & Machine Learning
Generative AI / LLM OCI GenAI Azure OpenAI RAG Pipelines Vector Search / Embeddings Spark ML Feature Engineering NLP Logistic Regression Random Forest
Programming & Databases
Python (PySpark, Pandas, PyArrow) SQL / T-SQL / Proc SQL SAS Scala R Bash Teradata Oracle DB2 MS SQL Server Hive
Orchestration, DevOps & Governance
Apache Airflow Data Governance Data Quality & Validation dbt Cloud Azure DevOps GitHub Actions CI/CD Docker Prefect
Analytics & Visualization
Power BI Tableau Splunk Grafana Adobe Analytics Streamlit QlikView
Professional Certifications
Oracle OCI Generative AI Professional 2025
Oracle OCI AI Associate
Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate DP-203
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals AI-900
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
Microsoft Data Fundamentals DP-900
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Tableau Certified Desktop Specialist
SAS Certified Advanced SAS Programmer
SAS Certified Base SAS Programmer
CAIIB — Banking & Finance (IIBF)
JAIIB — Banking & Finance (IIBF)
ISTQB Certified Software Tester
DataCamp Python Data Analyst Career Track
edX: Analyzing & Visualizing Data — Power BI
Udemy: Tableau A–Z
Education
Master of Science — Management Information Systems
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
Data Science focus · GPA 4.0 / 4.0 · May 2019
Bachelor of Technology — Electronics & Communication Engineering
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India
Distinction graduate · GPA 3.81 / 4.0 · May 2012
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Based in Minneapolis, MN · Open to remote & C2C engagements