Summary
Karan Tongay is an Expert Data Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native data platforms and guiding cross-functional teams, currently shaping data solutions for Microsoft Gaming from Burnaby, BC. He has repeatedly delivered scalable ETL pipelines, real-time processing, and governed data warehouses across Azure, AWS, and Hadoop ecosystems, driving measurable performance and downtime improvements. Karan blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and teaching—he’s taught college courses while leading data teams at ICBC, Beatport, and Vancouver Airport Authority—bringing both technical depth and people-first leadership. Comfortable across Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Redshift, Spark and BigQuery, he also translates complex data governance into practical policies and anonymization workflows. A self-described geek, he favors interdisciplinary problem solving and has a track record of turning academic research and streaming analytics work into production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Data Scientist Nanodegree Data Science, Data Scientist Nanodegree Data Science at Udacity
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of Victoria
Diploma in Computer Science Computer Science, Diploma in Computer Science Computer Science at Sinhagad Institute
St Joseph's High School
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering at Sinhgad College Of Engineering
Marathi, Hindi, English