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Karthikeyan Chandrasekaran

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Resident Solutions Architect at Databricks
📍 Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Karthikeyan is a Resident Solutions Architect at Databricks with a strong background in designing large-scale data systems for enterprise clients in retail and finance. He previously served as a Manager of Data Engineering at Tim Hortons and held several data science and engineering roles at RBC. He holds a Masters from Simon Fraser University and certifications in Databricks and Kubernetes.

He has a keen interest in documenting and sharing his technical knowledge, having written detailed blog posts about his journey to achieving MongoDB developer certification. He focuses on helping others by explaining the exam process, question types, and key study topics based on his own experience.

Unique fact: At Databricks, he delivered end-to-end data platform transformations that resulted in 4x performance improvements and enabled near real-time data availability for critical systems.

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Experience
13 Years
Current Role
Resident Solutions Architect
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Toronto Area, Canada
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Data Platform Transformation
Leads initiatives to deliver end-to-end data platform transformations for enterprise customers, significantly improving performance and enabling near real-time data availability.
Cloud-Native Deployment
A Certified Kubernetes Application Developer with hands-on experience deploying applications on cloud platforms like Red Hat OpenShift while at RBC.
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Career

Work history

3-2024
Resident Solutions Architect
Databricks
8-2022 - 3-2024
Manager, Data Engineer
Tim Hortons
8-2021 - 8-2022
Senior Data Engineer
RBC
1-2021 - 8-2021
Senior Data Scientist
RBC
2-2018 - 1-2021
Data Scientist
RBC
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Education
2016 - 2018
Master's degree
Simon Fraser University
2007 - 2011
Bachelor of Technology (BTech)
Anna University Chennai
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