Selva Thiruarul - Lead Data Engineer & Data Platform Services Engineering Manager

About Me

Lead Data Engineer and Manager with 10+ years of experience specializing in building, scaling, and optimizing high-impact data platforms and full-stack SaaS applications. Proven history of driving cross-organizational technical strategy, establishing engineering standards (Cloud/ETL), and delivering quantifiable business value.

Education

Master of Science in Information Systems
The University of Texas at Arlington
December 2017 | GPA: 4.0/4.0

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
R.M.K. Engineering College, Anna University
April 2012 | GPA: 8.45/10

Certifications & Awards

AWS Certified Developer – Professional
AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Wayne Watts Graduate Fellowship – 2017
Award for "Caring about the Craft" and "Caring about the business"

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Professional Experience

Clear Link Technologies, LLC

Data Platform Services Engineering Manager / Senior Data Engineer

March 2018 – Present | USA

SaaS Product Architect/Lead: Architected and led the full-stack development (Gin Golang, Vue.js/React) of the company's first SaaS data product, generating a sustained $150K in monthly profit across multiple partner sites.
Technical Leadership: Coordinated architecture and provided technical solutions across multiple engineering teams, acting as a technical liaison to define organizational direction and remove critical roadblocks.
Standardization & Governance: Drove organization-wide standards by setting formal cloud standards and standardizing the core ETL process (Airflow/Docker).
Cost Optimization: Led a major Graph DB migration (Neo4j to AWS Neptune) resulting in $25K in annual cost savings.
CI/CD & DevOps: Engineered a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) process using Bitbucket and AWS tools (S3, ECS, CodePipeline, CodeBuild/Deploy) to enable zero-downtime deployment.

Sykes Enterprises (India) Limited

Senior Software Engineer

January 2021 – September 2022 | India

Designed and developed a customer journey platform to profile customers, effectively reducing queue time before sales and support interaction.
Established code quality and development standards for continuous development, integration, and deployment within the team.

Tata Consultancy Services

Data Management Developer

October 2012 – December 2015 | India

Developed workflows, export, and import jobs with extensive test cases for IBM MDM platform, successfully deploying to production with no downtime.
Managed data models and upgraded IBM MDM PIM from version 9.0 to 11.0 for Talk Talk-UK.

Technical Skills

Programming & Core

Golang (Gin) Python (Django) Vue.js React Java Scala JavaScript

Data Engineering

Airflow Kafka Spark Streaming Hive Spark ETL/ELT GraphQL

Cloud & DevOps

AWS S3 Redshift Lambda ECS RDS API Gateway Jenkins Docker CI/CD

Databases & Tools

Neo4J AWS Neptune MySQL Oracle MongoDB Git

Key Achievements & Impact

SaaS Product Development

Architected and led full-stack development (Golang/Gin, Vue.js, React) of company's first SaaS data product from concept to production.

Impact: Generated sustained $150K monthly profit across multiple partner sites.

Graph DB Migration

Led enterprise-scale migration from Neo4j to AWS Neptune, including architecture redesign, data migration strategy, and team coordination.

Impact: Achieved $25K annual cost savings while improving scalability.

ETL Standardization

Drove organization-wide ETL/ELT standardization using Airflow and Docker, establishing formal cloud standards and best practices.

Impact: Improved team efficiency and reduced deployment errors across all data pipelines.

CI/CD Pipeline

Engineered automated CI/CD process using Bitbucket and AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, enabling seamless deployments.

Impact: Achieved zero-downtime deployments and 10x faster release cycles.

Self-Hosted Cloud Infrastructure

Built a private cloud storage solution using Raspberry Pi with Nextcloud, implementing Tailscale VPN for secure remote access across devices without port forwarding.

Impact: Created secure, self-hosted alternative to commercial cloud storage with full data ownership and zero-trust network architecture.