Gokhan Yavuzkendirci

Lead Data Architect on UDP Project for EDGE Group (UAE Ministry of Defense)

• Led design of a secure Cloudera-based lakehouse platform (Raw / Enriched / Curated).
• Defined ingestion and processing standards for high-volume batch and streaming data.
• Made core platform decisions across Iceberg, Ozone, Spark, Kafka, Trino, and Airflow.
• Established scalable batch and real-time pipelines across distributed systems.
• Designed analytical models and curated datasets for analytics and AI/ML use cases.
• Prepared ML-ready datasets and supported controlled Dataiku workflows.
• Implemented governance, lineage, and access controls aligned with secure environments.
• Enabled reliable, low-latency access to trusted data for mission-critical workloads.
• Acted as technical lead across architecture, engineering, and domain teams.

Leadership & Management

• Led and mentored data engineering teams across platform initiatives.
• Owned technical roadmap, design reviews, and delivery prioritization.
• Served as main technical interface with senior leadership and stakeholders.

Lead Data Engineer on Reporting Factory Project for Danone France.

• Led a team of data engineers and owned delivery of finance reporting platform across multiple domains.
• Designed and implemented scalable reporting datasets (P&L, COGS, Manufacturing, Logistics, Treasury) on Snowflake.
• Defined ingestion and transformation patterns using IICS and advanced SQL to ensure reliable data pipelines.
• Standardized parameter-driven reporting framework enabling dynamic KPI and period-based reporting.
• Ensured finance-grade data accuracy through reconciliation and automated validation controls.
• Led migration initiatives towards Azure Databricks and modern cloud data platform architecture.
• Acted as main technical interface with finance stakeholders and translated business needs into data models and datasets.

Lead Data Engineer on Migration Finance Project for Danone France.

• Led migration of legacy finance warehouse (DB2) to Snowflake cloud platform.
• Developed Python-based automation for SQL conversion, validation, and reconciliation.
• Converted ETL workflows from Informatica PowerCenter to IICS and modern cloud patterns.
• Managed schema, object, and data model alignment between legacy and cloud environments.
• Ensured data accuracy through automated testing and non-regression controls.
• Coordinated with engineering and business teams to deliver migration milestones.

Lead Data Engineer on Migration Project for Dubai Roads & Transport Authority.

• Developing and migrating PDW Data Warehouse of RTA Dubai to Cloudera Big Data Environment in RTA DW Migration Project
• Object analysis of existing PDW DW by using T-SQL
• PDW to Hive-Impala Object Conversion by creating a dynamic conversion script algorithm with HQL
• ETL- ELT Conversion SSIS to Informatica BDM
• Using SPARK Engine, Sqoop Connector, and parameters and fixing their issues (duplication, performance) in Informatica BDM
• Incremental structure, partitioned structure, parameterized workflow execution in Informatica BDM
• ETL workflow mapping-command task orchestration, log and alert structure on Informatica BDM
• Adapting traditional challenging SQL Code and Infrastructure to Hadoop Environment by using HQL, Python, PySpark, and Bash
• MSTR reporting query development by using Impala

• Designed and built data pipelines on Cloudera using Spark, Hive, and Python.
• Developed ingestion frameworks from files, APIs, and relational systems.
• Implemented scheduling and workflow orchestration across data pipelines.
• Supported data warehouse modeling and reporting datasets.
• Contributed to architecture and data platform improvements.

• Led ETL development for enterprise data warehouse and reporting systems.
• Built and optimized Informatica PowerCenter pipelines across multiple domains.
• Designed integrations across relational and big data systems.
• Implemented data quality controls and performance tuning.
• Supported reporting and analytics datasets for business teams.

• Developed DW and ETL for various banks (HSBC, SberBank, BankAudi, Turkcell Financial Group Company) by using Informatica PowerCenter, ODI, SSIS ETL tools on Oracle and MSSQL environments
• Designed and developed DW in BankAudi DW reengineering project in Beirut, Lebanon by using ODI, MSSQL
• Participated in HSBC Bank GSIF development project by using Informatica PowerCenter, MSSQL
• Performance tuning and optimization
• Development version control by using Visual Studio TFS

• ETL Development of BDDK, and TMSF reports in IsBank DWH and Government Of Turkey Regulatory Reporting Project by using Oracle Data Integrator on Oracle Environment
• Participated in DB2 to Oracle Reengineering Project
• Improvement and adding new ODI ETL infrastructures (Log Alert Mechanism, Exporting Dynamic Reporting, Dynamic Data Quality Job)
• Performance tuning and optimization of old ETL processes

• ETL Development at Turkcell Superonline DWH Development Roadmap Team by using Oracle Data Integrator and Ab-Initio ETL tools
• Performance tuning and optimization of ETL processes on Oracle database system
• Prod ODI Application Administrator
• Generated reports by using Business Object
• Participated in Oracle Exadata and ODI upgrade projects
• Development of Customer Segmentation Data Mining Project by using SAS