Gopalakrishna P

Software Engineer Gk3.etl@gmail.com

(0)8608135462

Career Objective:
TECHNICAL SKILLS
To obtain a challenging position involving both software design
and development where I will be able to utilize my knowledge,
experience and ability to quickly absorb and implement new
Languages:
technologies, while making significant and measurable
contributions to a company’s growth.
C
C++
Summary:
Sql,
Pl/Sql
Over 4+years of experience in the DWH technology with
extensive experience as Software Engineer using
Informatica7.x/8.6 Technologies dated from Apr 07 to till.
DWH Tools
• Experience with complex mappings from varied
Informatica 7.x/8.6
transformation logics like connected lookups, Filter,
Cognos 8
Router, Aggregator, Joiner, and Update Strategy.
• Extensive Experience in Extraction, Transformation and
Databases: Loading of data from different heterogeneous source
systems like flat files and Oracle.
Oracle8i/9i • Well Experienced with ORACLE database for Data
warehouses.
• Good understanding of source to target data mapping
Mark Up Languages: and Business rules associated with the ETL processes
• Involved in complex mappings like slowly Changing
HTML Dimensions.
XML. • Having good interaction with clients.

Educational Qualifications:
Operating Systems:
• B.sc Graduation, Nagarjunna University
Windows X
UNIX Professional Experience:

• Worked as Software Engineer for US-Technologies,

Chennai from May 09 – Till Date.
• Worked as Software Engineer for Pat ni Technologies,
Mumbai from April 07 – March 09
Project #1:

Title : AU & CAI - Risk Datamart Integration

Client : Aramark Uniform & Career Apparel Inc. (Boston, USA)
Role : ETL Developer.
Environment : Informatica 8.6, Oracle 9i
Duration : May 09 to till date.

Description:

ARAMARK Uniform and Career Apparel (AUCA) group is a division of the ARAMARK
Corporation, the second largest Management Services Company in the U.S. It manages a
wide variety of workplace clothing services from the design and direct marketing of uniforms,
casual attire through catalogs, mail order etc. to the regular and laundering of work clothes.
Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, AUCA has three lines of business:

Responsibilities:

• Developed extraction mappings to load data from Source systems to ODS to Data
Warehouse.
• Developed mappings in Informatica to load the data from various sources using different
transformations like Source Qualifier, Look up (connected and unconnected),
Expression, Aggregate, Update Strategy, Sequence Generator, Joiner, Filter, Update
Strategy Rank and Router transformations. .
• Executed sessions, both sequential and concurrent for efficient execution of mappings
and used other tasks like event wait, event raise, email, command and pre/post SQL.
• Used session partitions, dynamic cache memory, and index cache to improve the
performance. .
• Designed and Developed the Informatica workflows/sessions to extract, transform and
load the data into Target. .
• Developed procedures to populate the customer data warehouse with transaction data,
cycle and monthly summary data, and historical data.
• Optimize SQL queries for better performance.
• Worked with different Informatica tuning issues and fine-tuned the transformations to
make them more efficient in terms of performance.
Project # 2

Title : BP Retail Dart Implementation

Client : British Petroleum (BP)
Role : ETL Developer.
Environment : Informatica 8.6, Oracle 9i
Duration : Nov 07 to March ’09

Description:

BP is one of the world's largest energy companies, providing its customers with fuel for
transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for
everyday items .BP produces 3.9 million barrels of oil equivalent per day of oil and gas for
customers across the world.BP Ultimate, premium automotive fuel that delivers improved
engine performance and reduces pollution, is now available in 15 markets around the world -
including Russia

Aim of this project is to implementing ‘IS RETAIL at the RETAIL operations Head offices’ in the
respective geographic covering all merchandising and Finance function.This will replace their
current legacy head office systems.

Responsibilities:

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• Worked as team member
• Understand the business requirement specifications provided by the client and translate
them into ETL design specification, load the data into Dwh.
• Used and worked on different transformations like expression, Aggregator, router, Filter,
Lookup, update strategy and Normalizer transformations.
• Performance tuning of informatica mappings.
• Validating data in Informatica staging and target tables.
• Developed and tested all the Informatica mappings and prepared ETL- low level Design
Documentation.
Project # 3

Title : CIBC Data migration

Client : Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, TORONTO
Role : ETL Developer.
Environment : Informatica 7.x, Oracle 9i, Pl/sql.
Duration : Apr2007 to Nov 07

Description:

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce(CIBC) is a leading North American financial institution

comprising three strategic business lines that provide financial services to more than nine
million customers, including retail and small business banking customers as well as corporate
and investment banking customers. The development of data warehouse is inextricably linked
to the business needs of an enterprise. Bank has a need for an analytical data warehouse to
improve the decision-making. Bank is in business since 1975 and they are having number of
branches operating in various parts of the country. Like every (international) fast growing
banks this bank is also searching for new business avenues, wants to increase the customer
base and attract more investment. So far the bank is using the traditional banking practices for
its functioning and using the various media for promoting the various schemes. By using the
Information technology for making better business strategies and decisions, this bank wants to
have an edge over its competitors.

Responsibilities:

• Team Member Worked on Informatica tool –Source Analyzer, Data warehousing

designer, Mapping Designer and Transformations developer.
• Involved in ETL documentation
• Involved in Crating mapping, workflows
• Developed various mappings to load data from various sources using different
transformations like Aggregator, Lookup, Update Strategy and Sequence Generator and
Expression to store the data in different target tables.
• Created Informatica mappings to build business rules to load data. Most of the
transformations were used like the Source qualifier, Aggregators, Expressions, lookups,
Filters & Sequence Generator.
• Creating sessions, workflows and monitoring workflow monitor to identify the status of
session
• Involved in creating the Unit Test Plans.