Sudheer Palyam

Sudheer Palyam is a seasoned Program Architect at Commerical Data Hub, with a robust background in defining target state strategies for systems, processes, information, and technologies within the Data domain.

With experience working alongside technology vendors and product teams, Sudheer excels in creating roadmaps to achieve desired target states and driving technical initiative features as a Product Owner.

His expertise extends to defining target reference architecture, leading proof of concept implementations, and owning end-to-end solution designs aligning with business, technology, and product strategies, particularly in the Digital Marketing/Advertising domain.

As a solutions architect, Sudheer specializes in deep data architecture, focusing on enterprise data lake design, heterogeneous ingestion frameworks, machine learning model productionization, big data serverless and containerized compute services, data platform operations, and performance optimizations.

He has a strong track record of building petabyte-scale data processing applications on cloud platforms such as AWS EMR, Azure Databricks, and Cloudera Data Platform, and designing data ingestion frameworks using various tools like Spark, Glue, Nifi, and more.

Sudheer's expertise also includes designing technical metadata harvesting systems, implementing data governance solutions, developing end-to-end data lineage and transformations capture processes, and assessing data quality and profiling metrics.

Moreover, he is proficient in modeling data in Data warehouses like Redshift and Hive, architecting microservice-oriented solutions using technologies like AWS Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, and API Gateway.

Sudheer has a solid background in ML engineering, involving productionizing predictive analytics models using tools like Spark ML, EMR, Sagemaker, and Kubernetes, as well as creating ML pipelines in Spark ML Scala and Python.

In terms of education, Sudheer holds an MBA and PGDIT from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, along with a B.Tech in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.

His professional journey includes roles such as Program Architect at News Corp Australia, Solution Designer & Lead at NAB Data Hub, Senior Solutions Architect at Cloudera, Technology Researcher/Consultant at nbn™ Australia, and Big Data Architect at organizations like ANZ and Boeing.

Prior to these roles, Sudheer gained experience as a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Narus Networks, Senior Java Consultant at Verizon Wireless and TheLadders.com, and as a Member Technical Staff at Sun Microsystems.