Summary
Potcharapol Suteparuk is an engineering manager and head of data platform with 11 years of experience building and scaling large-volume data systems across cloud environments. He has led teams to deliver lakehouse architectures and hub-and-spoke strategies that enabled self-service, automated governance, and measurable reductions in time-to-market for 20+ business units in financial services. Previously at Databricks and Grammarly he optimized ETL and streaming pipelines processing terabytes daily, cutting costs and latency dramatically while ensuring compliance with FedRAMP, HIPAA, and GDPR. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, he has a Stanford CS/MS background and a track record of moving organizations off legacy platforms into Databricks-based ecosystems. A practical problem-solver, he combines deep data engineering chops with product-focused metrics work—evidenced by an 80% cost reduction in session-level analysis and 70% SLA/cost improvements from streaming migrations.
11 years of coding experience