Principal Technologist (Data Engineering & Analytics)
Singapore, Singapore
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Chandu Kavar is a Principal Technologist with 11+ years building large-scale data platforms across fintech, ride-hailing and enterprise domains, now leading Data Engineering & Analytics at Singapore Airlines. He designs and operates production-grade pipelines and orchestration at scale—having deployed 20+ Airflow instances, managed 100k+ DAGs, and built platforms on GCP and AWS using Kubernetes, Spark, BigQuery and Delta Lake. At PortOne he combined engineering and product thinking to boost sales by 30% through integrated analytics and improved analyst productivity with a semantic layer and Open Metadata-driven governance. A hands-on leader, he’s known for cutting operational costs (e.g., $20k/month savings at Grab), shipping automation and developer tooling (Helm, Terraform, CI/CD), and mentoring cross-functional teams to adopt data-driven workflows. Rarely content with “just working,” he translates complex business needs into scalable, observable data systems that empower decision-makers.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Engineering at Gujarat Technological University (GTU)
Bachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at Shantilal Shah Engineering College
Contributions:59 commits, 10 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year
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Chandu Kavar - Principal Technologist (Data Engineering & Analytics)