Ritu Kumari

Principle Data 6 AI with 16 + years architecting and scaling enterprise-grade data platforms at

Fortune 500 companies. Experience in designing modern data stacks (Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta

Lake) that process millions of daily records, enable real-time analytics at scale, and driving performance

over cost efficiency. Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture (Azure, AWS, GCP), streaming systems

(Kafka, EventHub), ML infrastructure, and generative AI. Led platform transformations resulting in 10x faster

onboarding, 40% latency reduction, and 30% improvement in data quality. Industry speaker on Lakehouse

architectures and data platform modernization.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Architecture & Strategy: Modern Data Stack Design (Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) | Data Mesh

& Lakehouse Architecture | Real-Time Streaming Platforms (Kafka, EventHub,Pub/Sub) | Enterprise Data

Governance & Quality | ML Infrastructure & MLOps | API-Driven Data Access Patterns | Cloud Platform

Migrations

Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure (Synapse, Data Lake, ADF, EventHub) | AWS (Redshift, S3, Glue) | GCP

(BigQuery, Dataflow) | Kubernetes & Container Orchestration | Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) |

DevOps/CI-CD Automation | Cost Optimization & Observability

Data Engineering & Programming: PySpark & Apache Spark | Python | Scala | SQL | Backend API

Development | ETL/ELT Framework Design | Data Quality Automation | SRE & Site Reliability

Databases & Data Storage: PostgreSQL | SQL Server | Oracle | Cassandra | Couchbase | DynamoDB |

Elasticsearch | Delta Lake | Apache Iceberg

AI & Machine Learning: Generative AI / LLMs | ML Model Lifecycle Management | Anomaly Detection

& Monitoring | PII Detect