Anand Muraleedharan

Principal Data Engineer / Data Architect

Highly qualified Principal Data Engineer & Architect with 10+ years of experience focused on translating complex business mandates into actionable plans and scalable data systems. Expert in data transformation pipelines, cloud migrations, and Kimball/Data Vault 2.0 modeling. Started career immediately in June 2015 at SAP Labs, with only a brief 9-month transition gap during UT Dallas graduate studies before resuming active engineering roles.

Work History

Principal Data Engineer & Architect

2023-11 - Present

Autodesk — Frisco, TX (Remote)

Principal Data Engineer (Senior title officially, Jan 2026 - Present): Design robust telemetry schemas, optimize warehouse performance in Snowflake, and build Airflow DAGs on Astronomer.
Senior Sales Operations Analyst (Nov 2023 - Dec 2025): Developed custom GTM insight frameworks in Python and SQL, saving operational overhead and automating finance data reporting.

Manager - Data Engineering

Apr - -

Eviden (An Atos Company) — Plano, TX

Managed data engineering delivery teams, established enterprise-wide dbt coding standards, and set up BigQuery testing architectures.

Client Placement: Blue Shield of California (Principal Data Engineer (Contract))

Modeled core clinical and financial transactions in Snowflake using Data Vault 2.0 modeling principles.
Engineered scalable dbt pipelines utilizing dbtVault / AutomateDV on Azure cloud systems.

Principal Consultant - Data Engineering

Feb - -

Maven Wave, an Atos Company — Plano, TX

Client Placement: UPS (Principal Data Engineer (Contract))

Developed custom Unix Shell and Python ingestion wrappers on a Linux Integration hub.
Designed BigQuery data warehouse models to query complex hierarchical HR organization charts.

Client Placement: Autodesk (Principal Data Engineer (Contract))

Developed a dbt-based testing framework for early detection of Fivetran pipeline failures.
Migrated legacy finance pipelines to a Snowflake + dbt stack, improving DAG run times by 200%.
Pushed Looker PDTs down into the database transformation layer to ensure DRY modeling practices.

Contact

AddressFrisco, TX, 75033

Phone214-937-1403

E-mailanand.muraleedharan@gmail.com

LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/Anand-Muraleedharan

GitHubgithub.com/anandmuraleedharan

Skills

Data WarehousingVery Good

SnowflakeVery Good

dbt (Data Build Tool)Very Good

Apache AirflowGood

AstronomerGood

LookerGood

FivetranGood

Work History (Cont.)

Maven Wave / Atos Placement & Progression

Coke One North America (Principal Consultant Project, 2022-02 - 2023-03)

Designed and implemented BI re-platforming from SAP HANA to Snowflake.
Developed master/fact dbt models using Kimball DW modeling, optimizing DAG runs by 400% through clustering and custom macros.

Client Placement: American Family Insurance (Principal Data Engineer (Contract))

Structured GCP BigQuery pipelines and integrated Vertex AI with Kubeflow (KFP) ML pipelines.
Wrote custom Python ingestion adapters for macroeconomic APIs (FRED, BLS, BTS, CDC, Yfinance).

BI & Analytics Solutions Developer (formerly Intern)

May - -

Visual BI Solutions — Plano, TX

Solutions Developer (Full-time): Designed Snowflake pipelines, dbt transformations, and integrated with Azure Repos for version control.
Business Intelligence Developer (Internship): Modeled schemas using Kimball Dimensional Design on SAP HANA databases.

Developer (formerly Associate Developer)

Jun - -

SAP Labs India — Bengaluru, India

Developer: Programmed full-stack features using SAPUI5 and ABAP on SAP HANA databases.
Associate Developer: Shipped 5 enterprise web apps utilizing MVC patterns, configured Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, Nginx, and analyzed performance.

Education

Master of Science: Information Technology and Management

The University of Texas at Dallas — Richardson, TX2018 - 2020

Grade: 4.0/4.0 | Awarded ITM All Rounder Award
President of ITM Student Leadership Club | Dean's List

Bachelor of Technology: Mechanical Engineering

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham — Coimbatore, India2011 - 2015

Certifications

Astronomer Certification for Apache Airflow 3 Fundamentals2025-06

dbt Certified Developer (dbt Labs)2022-07

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner2022-03

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate2022-02

Skills (Cont.)

PythonGood

SQLVery Good

JavaScriptVery Good

Google BigQueryVery Good

Shell ScriptingVery Good

TerraformGood

SAP HANAGood