Smrithi Ashraf

Cloud Data Platform Engineer with 5+ years of experience in data platform administration, production support, and automation. Currently specializing in Azure Databricks platform administration, including Unity Catalog, compute management, monitoring, governance, security, Terraform, and cost optimization. Experienced in Python, SQL, KQL, Azure services, and enterprise ETL platforms like IBM Datastage and Informatica Powercenter administration, with a strong focus on platform reliability and operational efficiency.

Senior Associate Consultant - Data Platform Engineer at Infosys Limited (2025-01 – Present)

• Administered enterprise Azure Databricks Dev, Pre-Prod and Production workspaces, managing compute, jobs, SQL warehouses, permissions, Unity Catalog and platform configurations.
• Implemented Unity Catalog governance, RBAC, service principals, OAuth, Azure Key Vault and secret management for secure platform access.
• Developed KQL/Log Analytics monitoring dashboards and alerts for SQL queries, clusters, jobs and compute utilization, enabling proactive platform operations.
• Automated Databricks administration and monitoring using Python, Terraform and Databricks/Azure APIs, implementing cross workspace standards, reducing manual operational effort and compute/cost utilization by 40 %
• Implemented serverless budget policies and compute governance to improve resource utilization and control platform costs.
• Supported Databricks Runtime upgrades/EOL migrations, including testing, compatibility validation, troubleshooting and production rollout.
• Troubleshot Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, workspace access, authentication and external connectivity issues across enterprise workloads.
• Developed utilization monitoring and alerting solutions contributing to approximately 20 percent improvement in compute/cost utilization.
• Provided L2/L3 platform support, incident management and root-cause analysis while coordinating with data engineering, security, Azure and client teams.

Systems Engineer - ETL Administrator at Tata Consultancy Services (2023-03 – 2025-01)

• Manage and provide Availability Command Center support for ETL application Tools, focusing on IBM Datastage, Informatica, Qlik, and Cloudera.
• Manage a team of 4 data integration administrators, ensuring their continuous learning and proper ACC responsibilities, including their KT, and created documentation for the same.
• Maintain development, testing, and production environments by managing configurations, connections, and access controls.
• Liaise with software vendors by raising cases for technical assistance, troubleshooting, or product updates and patches.
• Assist user teams with manually migrating Unix files across the servers and jobs across the environments.
• Creates Urban Code Deploy applications and components for migration from the user's side, along with troubleshooting deployment failures.
• Reduced 10% of the team workload by automating users' Pbrun requests to the servers using Python and shell script.
• Reduced 50% of the maintenance activity workload by automating pre and post-validation of filesystems using Python and shell script.
• Forecast resource requirements and scalability planning to accommodate users' needs for new projects or increased volumes.
• Set up and monitor alerts using Datadog to track job performance, system health, and resource usage.
• Engage in pre- and post-implementation and validation for respective Linux and terminal server maintenance.
• Present project updates, technical solutions, and recommendations to stakeholders, demonstrating strong communication and presentation skills.

Systems Engineer - Quality Assurance Tester at Tata Consultancy Services (2021-10 – 2023-03)

• Provided Data Model and UTP validation by understanding data requirements.
• Worked on S2T validations by analyzing Source and Target Systems.
• Ensured effective data loading by performing thorough lab and prod validations by developing SQL Queries and qTest.
• Provided KT sessions to clients on QA testing and usage of the Automation tool we developed for S2T, lab, and Prod validations.

Human Resource Associate - Codementor at HashHackCode (2020-06 – 2023-02)

• Online one-to-one Webpage development tutor for neuro-diverse individuals in the age group of 9 to 30.
• Participated in the intake of new interns to the team and supervised and conducted training sessions in HTML, CSS, adhering to inclusive mentoring and communication
• Collaborated with the team of students and assisted with outsourcing the team to take on independent projects for clients.
• Conducted workshop at Google I/O Connect for Kotlin App Development.
• Conducted workshops for school students and senior citizens on technology.

Virtual Tutor - Online at CampK12 (2020-09 – 2020-12)

• Online Artificial Intelligence Tutor for students of age group 12- 18 for JavaScript.
• Provided reports to parents and organizations by analyzing the student's progress.
• Collaborated with the team of students and assisted with outsourcing the team to take on independent projects for clients.
• Conducted workshop at Google I/O Connect for Kotlin App Development.
• Conducted workshops for school students and senior citizens on technology.

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering – Government Engineering College Thrissur, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (2017-06 – 2021-06)