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Data Engineering
Crafting innovative data pipelines and managing cloud-based data warehouses that deliver impactful, trustworthy business insights at scale.
Vancouver, BC · Canada
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Expert Data Engineer (Data Privacy)
Microsoft Gaming (Activision)
About Me
Data with a point of view.
Welcome to my corner of the digital world. I'm Karan — a data engineer who has spent the last decade turning messy, sprawling data into pipelines, warehouses, and insights that businesses can actually act on. My work lives at the intersection of scale, privacy, and clarity.
My journey began with a Master's in Computer Science at the University of Victoria (2018–2020), where I researched healthcare data security and compliance under Dr. Neil Ernst — setting the stage for everything that followed.
Since then I've engineered analytical infrastructure across insurance, banking, music-tech, aviation, and gaming: Azure Databricks & Power BI at Dinify, AWS + Informatica pipelines at Coast Capital Savings, BigQuery/Looker/Pentaho at Beatport, and data masking, governance & anonymization at ICBC.
Today I'm an Expert Data Engineer focused on data privacy at Microsoft Gaming (Activision). I care deeply about clean, maintainable pipelines, privacy-by-design, and making data genuinely useful. Alongside the day job I co-founded Dinify, publish research, and mentor the next generation of builders.
Mentor & consultant for Yagnot · Advisor, Computer Science Dept., Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
What I Do
Four disciplines, one system.
From ingestion to insight — I design the full path data travels, keeping it fast, governed, and private.
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Software Engineering
Full-stack engineering across diverse technologies — building cutting-edge solutions and streamlining development from prototype to production.
03
Privacy Engineering
Pioneering privacy-by-design: robust strategies that safeguard data integrity, ensure compliance, and champion user privacy in an evolving landscape.
04
Business Intelligence
Transforming raw data into strategic solutions — turning dashboards and models into confident, informed decision-making.
Career
A decade shipping data.
Insurance, banking, music-tech, aviation, gaming — and a couple of ventures of my own. Every stop, a new pipeline.
Role Apr 2025 — Present
Expert Data Engineer (Data Privacy)
Microsoft Gaming (Activision) · Vancouver, BC
Leading data-privacy engineering across gaming data platforms.
Role Apr 2024 — Mar 2025
Senior Data Warehouse Engineer
Vancouver Airport Authority (YVR) · Vancouver, BC
Designed and scaled the analytical data warehouse powering airport operations.
Role Aug 2023 — Apr 2024
Data Warehouse Engineer / Analyst
Coast Capital Savings · Vancouver, BC
Engineered efficient pipelines on the AWS + Informatica stack, optimizing data flow and processing.
Founder May 2020 — Present
Co-Founder
Dinify · Burnaby, Canada
Built analytical data infrastructure with Azure Databricks & Power BI as senior engineer and independent consultant.
Role Apr 2023 — Jul 2023
Data Engineer — Contract (DLNP)
ICBC · North Vancouver, Canada
Delivered data engineering for the DLNP program.
Role Jun 2022 — Jun 2023
Senior Data Warehouse Engineer
Beatport LLC · Denver / Los Angeles, USA
Built high-performance ETL with Google BigQuery, Looker & Pentaho. Hackathon 2023 winner.
Role Jul 2021 — Jun 2022
Data Engineer — Intermediate
ICBC · North Vancouver, Canada
Implemented data masking, governance and anonymization techniques.
Role Dec 2020 — Jul 2021
Data Engineer
ICBC · North Vancouver, Canada
Contributed to the vehicle-based → driver-based system transformation.
Research Fall 2018 — Fall 2020
Graduate Research Fellow — MSc Computer Science
University of Victoria · Victoria, Canada
Researched healthcare data security & compliance under Dr. Neil Ernst.
Research Fall 2018 — Fall 2020
Data Scientist — Research Partner
Shift · Victoria, Canada
Applied data science research in partnership with Shift.
Role Feb 2020 — Aug 2020
Data Engineer — Co-op
ICBC · North Vancouver, Canada
Role Aug 2019 — Dec 2019
Data Analyst — Part Time
ICBC · Victoria, Canada
Teaching Oct 2018 — Apr 2019
Experiential Learning Development Assistant
University of Victoria · Victoria, Canada
Teaching 2018 — 2020
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Victoria · Victoria, Canada
Role Jun 2017 — Jul 2018
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Amura Marketing Technologies · Pune, India
Full-stack product engineering for the Sell.Do platform.
Community Jul 2016 — Jun 2017
Campus Brand Ambassador
Dell · Pune, India
Brand Ambassador of the Year 2016.
Founder 2014
Co-Founder
Yagnot · Pune, India
Co-founded an early venture; now mentor & consultant.
Skills & Stack
The tools I reach for.
A working toolkit built over years in production — big-data engines, cloud platforms, and the privacy tooling to keep it all safe.
Big Data & Data Engineering
Cloud Platforms
ETL & Data Quality
BI & Visualization
Languages
Privacy Engineering
Certifications
Credentials, verified.
Industry certifications across cloud architecture, data, security, and development.
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
Amazon Web Services · Verify on Credly
ORA
Oracle Certified Java Professional (OCJP)
Oracle · 239587709OCPJSE6P
MOS
Microsoft Office Specialist — Master
Microsoft
MTA
MTA — Networking
Microsoft · E862-0281
MTA
MTA — Database Administration
Microsoft · E845-5287
MTA
MTA — Computer Security
Microsoft · E862-0282
MTA
MTA — Software Development
Microsoft · F019-5265
MTA
MTA — .NET
Microsoft · F019-5263
Research & Publications
Published work.
Peer-reviewed research spanning design-discussion mining, conversational AI, IoT data, and sensor computing — presented at IEEE conferences.
- 2020
Cross-Dataset Design Discussion Mining
SANER 2020 · Canada - 2019
AI Chatbots: Transforming User Experience
I2CT 2019 · India · IEEE Xplore - 2017
IOTA: Intelligent Filtering and Segmentation of Unstructured Datasets
I2CT 2017 · India - 2016
Sensor Data Computing as a Service in Internet of Things
CDAN 2016 · India
Community & Social Service
Giving time back.
Teaching kids to code, helping seniors get online, and community work across Canada and India.
2019
Kids Learning Code — Mentor
Canada Learning Code
Mentored primary-school kids in the fundamentals of programming using the Processing language.
2019
Seniors Training Program — Session Leader
Victoria, BC
Led sessions teaching senior citizens how to use internet technologies — Email, Google Search, Google Maps — to make daily life easier.
2015
Swachh Bharat National Cleanliness Program
Rotary Club, Khopoli
Participated in India's national cleanliness program through the International Rotary Club in Khopoli, Navi Mumbai.
2015
Computer Literacy for Orphan Students
LIFE NGO
Ran a computer-literacy program for orphan students in rural Pune and took part in a notebook distribution camp.
Contact
Let's build something that lasts.
Got a data problem worth solving, a role to discuss, or just want to talk shop? Send a note — it lands straight in my inbox and I read everything.
Vancouver, BC · Canada