Gopi Ponnusamy

Results-driven Engineering Manager, Solution Architect, and Data Platform Architect with 14+ years of experience delivering enterprise applications, platform modernization programs, data integration solutions, cloud migrations, and analytics initiatives across Life Sciences, Healthcare, Aviation, Bioinformatics, Retail, Financial Services, and Technology domains. Experienced in designing scalable data architectures, ETL workflows, reporting platforms, and large-scale data migration programs. Strong expertise in AWS, Python, SQL, PySpark, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native technologies with proven success leading cross-functional teams and aligning technology solutions with business objectives.

Engineering Manager at ValGenesis Pvt Ltd (2025-09 – Present)

Leading platform modernization initiatives for SmartGxP, a cloud-native Quality Management platform supporting regulated Life Sciences organizations.

• Driving data migration strategy from legacy SQL Server environments to PostgreSQL and AWS S3 Storage while ensuring data integrity, auditability, and compliance.
• Leading a team of engineers responsible for platform modernization, migration tooling, observability, and reporting initiatives.
• Designed scalable ETL pipelines, ingestion frameworks, data transformations, validation, cleansing, and quality controls for structured and semi-structured enterprise data.
• Collaborating with product and engineering teams to establish reporting, analytics, and data governance capabilities.

Associate Manager at TridentSQA Pvt Ltd (2023-10 – 2025-09)

Delivered enterprise solutions across healthcare, aviation, workflow management, API management, and AI-driven career services domains.

• Led development of cloud-native applications using React, NextJS, TypeScript, Node.js, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS services.
• Designed reporting databases and analytical data models supporting operational and executive reporting.
• Built metadata-driven integration frameworks and automated data processing workflows.
• Improved reporting performance by approximately 40% through schema optimization, indexing strategies, and SQL tuning.

Engineering Manager at ValGenesis Pvt Ltd (2023-04 – 2023-10)

Delivered VConnect and G4 CAT Portal solutions supporting test automation, job orchestration, dashboards, reporting, and notifications.

• Developed ETL workflows integrating data from multiple enterprise systems and applications.

Associate Manager at TridentSQA Pvt Ltd (2018-03 – 2023-04)

Delivered enterprise solutions across Healthcare, Aviation, API Management, AI Career Services, and Workflow Automation domains.

• Automated workflow scheduling and monitoring using Control-M and Cron.
• Developed ETL pipelines using Python, SQL, and PySpark for reporting and analytical workloads.
• Optimized PySpark workloads through partitioning, caching, and query-tuning techniques reducing processing times by approximately 30%.
• Improved reporting performance through database tuning and indexing strategies.

Leadership and Senior Software Development Roles at Multiple organizations (2012 – 2023)

Held leadership and senior software development roles across TridentSQA, Genome Life Science, Truglobal India Software.

B.E. in Computer Science Engineering – V.S.B Engineering College, Karur (2003 – 2006)