About

Manikandan Nadimuthu is a data enthusiast with over 19 years of experience in data engineering, including distributed software systems. He has a demonstrated ability to take accountability for achieving results and has spent the last 3+ years in technical leadership roles managing highly functional and self-organizing software engineers to develop and support data pipelines and data products. Manikandan is well-versed in big data/cloud technologies such as Hadoop (Hive, Hbase, Spark), Google Cloud, Python, Shell scripting, and data engineering. He also has good knowledge in Data Governance, dbt, and datavault 3.0. Manikandan has a M.C.A and B.Sc CS from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, India. Currently, Manikandan is the Sr. Manager - Finance Analytical Data Services at PayPal India Pvt. Ltd. He is responsible for designing, building and maintaining data capabilities across PayPal Finance, with a focus on IRS Tax Reporting Data Engineering, People Datawarehouse enabling HR Business Intelligence, Finance Ledger Close and Operations, and Cloud Migration initiatives. Manikandan is also responsible for partnering with architecture teams to develop solution designs, maintaining deep technical and business knowledge of industry directions and trends in the area of Data Engineering, and providing advice, guidance, and direction to carry out plans and procedures, ensuring schedule attainment, product development process adherence, performance, and budget targets are met. In his past roles at PayPal India Pvt. Ltd, Manikandan has held positions such as Sr. Manager - Data Engineering (T26) and Data Engineering Manager. In these roles, he was responsible for maintaining deep technical and business knowledge of industry directions and trends in the area of Data Engineering, laying down the ETL architecture, process flow, data integration, data validations, and error handling, and providing advice, guidance, and direction to carry out plans and procedures, ensuring schedule attainment, product development process adherence, performance, and budget targets are met. Manikandan's tech stack includes Data Engineering, ETL, Hadoop, Spark, Big Data, Integration, Python, Senior Software Engineer, Apache Hive, DevOps, GCP, and Software Engineer. He has 19.54 years of relevant experience.