Mohan Kumar Venugopal
Data Enthusiast, Mentor, Guide
I'm a data and solutions architect with 2+ decades in IT, the last18+ years focused on ETL/ELT and enterprise data platform architecture. Over two decades I've architected large-scale data platforms across banking, media, and telecom — building data hubs on Hadoop/Spark/Kafka, leading enterprise data warehouse migrations, and driving cloud modernization on AWS.
I work across the full AWS data stack — S3, Redshift, Glue, EMR, Athena, Lambda, Step Functions, and Airflow (MWAA) — alongside big data engines like Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Ab Initio, and Informatica. Beyond the technical side, I've spent17+ years in people leadership, managing engineering teams up to 75 people through full project lifecycles, from architecture through delivery.
This site is where I write up projects I build on my own time — real pipelines, real debugging, no cleaned-up tutorial version. Browse posts on the left, or check theglossary for quick definitions of terms I use often.
Highlights
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2025)
- Domain experience: state & public benefits, corporate & investment banking, media & entertainment, telecom
- Led teams of up to 75 engineers; 17+ years in people management
- Deep hands-on background: Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Ab Initio, Informatica, Airflow, Redshift, EMR