Dheeraj Dama

Engineering Manager, Big Data & DevOps

Managing a distributed team of 16–20 engineers across four time zones. Responsible for 20+ AWS tenants and the data platform built on EKS. Led a 40% cloud cost reduction initiative. Own NoSQL infrastructure across MongoDB, DynamoDB, and DocumentDB. Running a GenAI platform program and driving innersource adoption for Terraform IaC across teams.

Sr. Technical Lead / Reporting Manager

Led a team of five on data engineering and cloud infrastructure for Novartis. Built an EMR proof-of-concept, ran MongoDB-to-DocumentDB migrations, supported Spark applications in production, and managed infrastructure through Terraform and Terragrunt.

DevOps & Cloud Engineer

Led a team of nine on AWS-to-Azure cloud migrations. Designed and managed infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Terragrunt across GE HealthCare workloads.

DevOps Engineer

Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, administered four Hadoop clusters, and built one-click Jenkins deployment tooling. Ran EMR workloads on AWS.

Hadoop Engineer

Supported the Big Data platform built on Cloudera CDH 4/5. Managed Kerberos security, cluster maintenance, and ongoing platform operations.

UNIX Systems Engineer / NetBackup

Solaris and RHEL build, patching, and migrations. Virtualization, Veritas cluster management, and NetBackup administration across enterprise environments.

UNIX System Administrator / NetBackup

Solaris zones, ZFS administration, system provisioning, and NetBackup infrastructure.

Teaching Assistant

Assisted with the networking lab. Covered RHEL administration and CCNA-level content.

University of Houston–Clear Lake

MS, Management Information Systems · GPA 3.6/4.0

NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad

Advanced Diploma in Cybersecurity & Data Protection Laws

JNTU, India

BTech, Computer Science