Summary
Hema Bhatia is an Assistant Vice President and senior data engineering leader based in the Greater Seattle Area with 11 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed data systems. She has progressed from hands-on roles at Microsoft, Amazon, and academia to leading engineering teams at Clairvoyant and EXL, specializing in data architecture, high-volume ingestion pipelines, and hybrid on-prem/cloud (GCP/Hadoop) deployments. Known for bridging software engineering and data platform concerns, she consistently ships robust web services, ETL pipelines, and analytics solutions across enterprise environments. Her background includes building production-grade RESTful APIs, search and analytics platforms, and event-driven systems leveraging Kafka and Solr—skills rooted in early research on networking and performance. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic technical manager who still dives into architecture and code to unblock teams. She pairs an MS in Computer Science with a track record of moving complex, data-intensive projects from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Bachelors Computer Engineering, Bachelors Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi