Aadi Manchanda
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Architect and Developer
Bedford, NS, Canada
Toptal member since March 10, 2022
Aadi brings 16+ years of experience in data and AI, with a strong focus on data engineering, BI, governance, and modern data platforms. Her work bridges technical depth with business impact, helping organizations turn data into actionable insight. Aadi has led end-to-end projects, mentored teams, and contributed to building data-driven cultures. She is now looking to apply her expertise in a role that values innovation, collaboration, and real-world impact.
Portfolio
Experience
- SQL - 10 years
- SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) - 7 years
- Oracle - 6 years
- Azure - 6 years
- SQL Server BI - 6 years
- Databricks - 5 years
- Azure Data Factory (ADF) - 5 years
- Azure Synapse - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Databricks, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), SQL, Oracle, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview, Data Governance, Data Architecture
The most amazing...
...solution was leading a Microsoft Fabric rollout with end-to-end data governance, enabling self-service analytics across 15+ business units.
Work Experience
Data and Governance Evangelist
Translab Technologies
- Architected a modern data lakehouse on Azure, integrating structured and unstructured data from 10+ source systems. Enabled scalable ingestion, processing, and optimized storage, reducing data delivery time by 60% for analytics teams.
- Led the deployment of Microsoft Fabric across business verticals, consolidating Power BI, Data Factory, and Synapse workloads. Delivered a unified semantic model and real-time reporting capabilities, significantly enhancing decision-making agility.
- Designed and implemented an enterprise-wide data governance framework using Microsoft Purview, establishing automated data lineage, classification, and access policies across 500+ data assets.
Cloud Solution Architect
Microsoft
- Engaged in architectural design sessions with customers, skill-sharing, designing, and providing implementation support on their data and analytics projects.
- Performed POCs with customers to demonstrate Azure data platform capabilities in their solutions.
- Owned the technical engagement with customers, providing expert customer and partner assistance through collaboration with the product development teams and other architects.
- Acted as the voice of the customer (VOC) and partner, driving new feedback, gaps, blockers, insights, and resources across communities to track, add, and prioritize product development and feature requests.
- Applied governance to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks on the customer's data platform with a well-architected framework, an enterprise-scale landing zone, and a cloud adoption framework.
Data Architect Lead
Nova Scotia Power Inc
- Defined standards and best practices for data engineering, databases, and data modeling components and ensured compliance with standards.
- Contributed to the end-to-end data solution architecture, ensuring it meets the enterprise direction. Provided technical oversight to ensure delivery quality.
- Designed and implemented a data lake solution on an Azure platform to store high-volume advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) data.
- Conceived and built data marts to support the customer solution, customer experience, and asset management groups.
- Created and maintained high-level and low-level design documents, source to target mappings, data catalog, and data models.
- Implemented and enhanced OBIA modules to load Oracle ERP and HR data into the data warehouse and built OBIEE reports on it.
Technical Lead
Happiest Minds Technologies
- Modeled the data warehouse for a banking customer from scratch and designed datamarts on top of it to meet reporting requirements. Analyzed existing operational reports to gather requirements and profile source-system data to peruse data quality.
- Defined transformation and quality rules for the ETL process based on data profiling results. Also designed the end-to-end ETL process for historical and incremental data.
- Optimized and performance-tuned ETL workloads to reduce the data warehouse load time and meet reporting service level agreements (SLA).
- Performed technology stack assessment and feasibility study of various data integration and reporting tools to meet the customer's requirements.
- Migrated hundreds of reports from MicroStrategy to Tableau.
- Supported the sales and pre-sales team on requests for proposals (RFP), POCs, and solutions design.
Experience
Data Lake Platform for AMI Data
Enterprise Data Governance Implementation
Microsoft Purview, Azure Data stores
Summary:
• Designed and rolled out a centralized data governance strategy using Microsoft Purview across finance, sales, and HR departments.
• Automated data classification, lineage tracking, and access control policies, improving compliance posture and reducing data discovery time by 40%.
Microsoft Fabric Adoption & Analytics Modernization
Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, OneLake, Data Factory
Summary:
• Led organization-wide Microsoft Fabric rollout, consolidating multiple analytics tools into a single unified platform.
• Developed semantic models, reusable datasets, and integrated governance features.
• Improved self-service adoption and reduced tool sprawl by 50%.
Synapse to Microsoft Fabric Migration
Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Purview
Summary:
• Led the end-to-end migration of an enterprise analytics environment from Azure Synapse Analytics to Microsoft Fabric, consolidating data integration, warehousing, and reporting under a single SaaS-based platform.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Maharshi Dayanand University - Rohtak, Haryana, India
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Azure Data Fundamentals
Microsoft
ITIL 4 Foundation Level
Axelos
Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions
Microsoft
Designing and Implementing Big Data Analytics Solutions
Microsoft
IBM InfoSphere Datastage v8.0 Certification
IBM
Oracle SQL Database Expert
Oracle
Skills
Libraries/APIs
PySpark
Tools
SQL Server BI, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE), Tableau, IBM InfoSphere (DataStage), Microsoft Power BI, Azure Key Vault, Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA)
Languages
SQL, Java, R, Python
Platforms
Azure Synapse, Oracle, Databricks, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Azure, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Event Hubs, Dedicated SQL Pool (formerly SQL DW), Microsoft Fabric
Paradigms
Software Testing, DevOps, Database Design, ETL, Azure DevOps
Storage
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Database Management Systems (DBMS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Data Lakes, Azure SQL Databases, Database Management, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Server 2012, Azure SQL
Other
Azure Data Factory (ADF), Software Development, Informatica, Big Data Architecture, ITIL 4, Data Engineering, Azure Stream Analytics, Big Data, Data Architecture, Network Data Storage, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), Cloud Architecture, Data Visualization, Networking, Cloud Security, Cloud Services, Cloud Storage, Virtualization, Azure Data Lake, Data Modeling, ETL Testing, Cloud, Microsoft Purview, Data Governance, OneLake
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