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“A pleasure to work with; Ruslan is a highly skilled professional, whose
exceptional analytical & problem solving skills are tantamount to the quality of
his work. Ruslan possesses a natural ability to transcribe the business' needs
into technical requirements. He is a great motivator, and strives to do what's
right for the company. He will ensure you get the most out of your data”
“Ruslan is an outside-the-box thinker who plans thoroughly and builds data
systems that last. His contributions to a project outperform many in the same
field. I would recommend his expertise to any serious project.”
“Ruslan is a smart individual, capable of analyzing technical and business
requirements to formulate strategic solutions with meticulous detail. He is
passionate about his work and always strives to deliver excellence. He will be a
great asset to any organization he works for.”
“Ruslan is a very detail oriented individual who is always willing to provide
valuable input and help solve difficult problems. I've worked with Ruslan for a
few years now and during that time he has been a key part of moving several
critical projects forward.”
“Ruslan is among the best pros I have had a chance to work with during my
career. His analytical abilities are unmatched, and experience in the data
architectures is superb. His experience with complex data base architectures
and data transformations helped me a lot meet my own deadlines in the fast
paced environment. His abilities are the great assets for the team members”
“Ruslan is an excellent resource when it comes to brainstorming and
architecting new systems and applications. His contributions to our new data
warehousing system were highly effective and pivotal to success.
He was able to gather business requirements from the marketing/finance
teams, convey these requirements to the application developers in a succinct
fashion and finally to gather the new data from the production applications and
translated the data into meaningful reports for the business to consume.
His work is second to none, his applications have been running for 2 years with
minimal maintenance. Ruslan was also able to breathe new life into some of our
older legacy applications with minimal effort but with maximum effectiveness.”
“Working for Ruslan has been a great experience. Not only is he incredibly
smart, dedicated and passionate about his work, but he always made himself
available to answer any questions I might've had. He takes great pride in the
quality of his work & is always careful to implement the right solution to any
problem. He will be a great asset to any company lucky enough to hire him”
Ruslan Podgaets – Sr. Data Warehouse Consultant
(289) 470-5450 | ruslan.podgaets@gmail.com | http://ca.linkedin.com/in/podgaets
Ruslan is a self-directed and results-oriented Senior Data Warehouse Consultant with over 15
years of experience. He helped numerous enterprises to get a hold and make an efficient use of
their data, extract insights and build robust automated processes.
Being industry agnostic he brings his expertise and out of the box thinking to resolve
information challenges. He crafts solid data foundations from ground up and carefully wraps
them in smart processes, to help nurture and protect digital assets, gaining clarity and supporting
business acumen.
Dedicated and transparent, Ruslan has extensive hands on experience of development in
complex highly integrated data warehousing environments in many different industries. He is a
patient listener and has great attention to detail. While talking to business and eliciting
requirements, he is able to bring high level architectures, which are supported by careful analysis
and knowledge of the underlying components.
- Exceptionally analytical and critical thinker
- Extreme ability to extract insights from data
- Great communication and conflict – resolution
- Clearly identifies and achieves priorities
- Data Architecture and Modeling
- Data Warehousing (DW) / ETL
- Big Data Ecosystem / Hadoop / NoSQL
- Master Data Management (MDM)

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Ruslan Podgaets – Sr. DW
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5450
Solutions Architect May 2011 – Present
EPAM Systems
Leading large scale projects managing offshore teams, nurturing clients’ relationships.
• Architected and implemented highly scalable Big Data BI Framework based on Hadoop/Hbase/Hive cluster to be used for
data mining, analysis and reporting purposes, using Cloudera Distribution v4 with Impala for real time analysis. One of the
main requirements of such system was a common SQL skillset, common among Data Scientists.
• Consulting on different data initiatives: architecture / integration / migration / reverse engineering / data warehouse
inception & enhancements.
Cloudera Hadoop HDFS NoSQL Impala Hive Hbase Sqoop Flume Erwin Talend Open Studio 4.3 Jaspersoft BI
Solutions Architect June 2013 – March 2015
CIBC, Toronto. ON
Integrated CDIC feeds and enhanced EDSF (Enterprise Data Supply Facility) platform
• Recommended and architected solutions on various CDIC initiatives (Joint & Trust, 3rd
Party GIC, Deposits, etc.)
• Reverse engineered and documented legacy processes, profiled data to enable reuse of existing architecture to
minimize costs of new process implementation.
Informatica Power Center 9.1 Oracle 11g Erwin Hadoop HDFS NoSQL
ETL Architect Oct 2012 – May 2013
Canadian Tire Corp., Toronto. ON
Led reverse engineering efforts of the current state, revealing legacy business processes
• Led DB2 to Netezza migration of a legacy system
• Conducted deep data profiling and reverse engineering of existing business requirements
• Analyzed complex interdependencies and worked with SMEs to validate business processes
• Built implementation roadmap and recommended approach for retail oriented BI Platform.
DataStage DB2 Netezza OBIEE 10g
DW Architect May 2012 – Oct 2012
LPL Financial Inc., San Diego, CA
Helped the client to regain the trust in the vendor and successfully deliver on time
• Improved value proposition for a large portfolio management company by enhancing data mart with new grain levels
• Designed and implemented data reconciliation framework, dynamically driven by business rules
• Produced executive reports a dashboards based on custom data aggregation strategy
• Worked closely with PM, BA, Business & Technical stakeholders and VPs
Informatica Power Center 9.0.1 SQL Server 2008 R2 Oracle 10g OBIEE 10g Erwin
ETL Architect Nov 2011 – May 2012
Sephora Inc., San Francisco, CA
Turned a failed migration project, with past due dates and an already over budget into a success
• Worked with no documentation and no previous analysis to migrate an ATG 2007 platform (abandoned by vendor) to
version 9.7 in the most efficient manner under strict timeline
• Summoned a team, conducted essential data analysis, created ETL framework and successfully concluded migration
efforts under extremely aggressive timelines, working with various team leaders and SMEs
Talend Integration Suite 4.2 Talend Open Studio 3 Oracle 11g Oracle PL/SQL Splunk Cloudera Hadoop HDFS
ETL Architect May 2011 – Oct 2011
Expedia Inc., Seattle, WA
Boosted efficiency of data warehouse design and migration by leveraging automation and big data tools
• Consulted on defining ecosystem for data consolidation and downstream provisioning for operational / BI needs
• Automated efforts on large migration initiative from DB2 to Oracle / Cassandra / Hadoop saving time tremendously

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• Managed team of 8 ETL developers and QAs and all aspects of engagement.
Power Designer 12 Oracle 10g Apache Hadoop HDFS Apache Cassandra NoSQL
Business Systems Analyst Mar 2011 – Apr 2011
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Toronto, ON
Responded to an RFI and created a roadmap that successfully materialized into a long term initiative
• Assessed current state and created a roadmap for centralized enterprise data management, unifying segregated 3rd
party applications (CRM, ticket sales, venue booking, accounting, etc.) to utilize single MDM Hub for customer data
Data Manager (Data Architecture & Management) Jun 2009 – Mar 2011
Mercatus Technologies Inc., Toronto, ON
Established data platform and managed all aspects of data collection, retention and dissemination
• Introduced and managed enterprise-wide data strategy, data governance, standards & policies for master data
management & referential integrity behind a large scale multichannel retail product metadata engine
• Architected from ground up all operational and reporting environments (operational database, master data store /
MDM repository & data warehouse), defined data management & data lineage rules & designed ETL framework
• Managed and guided Data Stewards on continuous improvements of data assets
• Worked with all heads of departments, COO, VP of Technology and engineering teams to determine and implement
innovative solutions to support key initiatives.
Talend Open Studio 3 MySQL 5 Erwin Infobright
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Systems Analyst (Investment Systems) Jun 2008 – May 2009
Manufacturers Life Insurance (Manulife), Toronto, ON
Designed distributed actuarial system and integrated with existing ecosystem
• Established platform for liability based risk calculations & what-if scenarios for general funds benchmarking
• Converted complex mathematical business algorithms into a procedural database side logic (T-SQL)
• Integrated GGY Axis actuarial software for valuation, liability pricing and asset modeling
Informatica Power Center 8.1 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Erwin
DW Architect / ETL Architect Jul 2007 – May 2008
Lavalife Inc. in Data Management Team, Toronto, ON
Revamped a highly complex legacy EDW to establish a rock solid centralized DW/BI platform
• Architected centrally managed and fully visible DW and ETL framework
• Migrated all existing data and processes from legacy EDW (Sybase ASE, Sybase ASIQ, SQL Server 2000)
• Introduced data governance principles, data retention management, improved performance and quality
• Helped to boost sales by improving value of the derived data, based on data profiling of user behavior
• Consulted to and with the business on campaign ideas and BI framework enhancements.
SQL 2000 and 2005 Sybase ASE 12.5 Sybase ASA IQ 12.5 Cognos BI 8 Perl Excel 2007
Referential Data Developer Aug 2004 – Jul 2007
Accenture Inc. (for Morgan Stanley Inc.), Toronto, ON
Was right hand of VP to resolve data challenges and improve data management
• Worked with business directly to build a data quality system. Data issues were monitored, raised and semi-
automatically resolved based on business defined (and managed) rules
• Created single source of truth MDM Framework for all stocks/options/features between Bloomberg, Reuters and
World Stock Market Exchanges.
• Enriched market data using various available data sources. Worked around enterprise constraints and security to
build a custom cross-system automated solution.
ER/Studio Sybase ASE 11/12.5 Aurora Unix Perl Microsoft MSMQ (SOAP) Autosys scheduling
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• Data Architect/Engineer, Fun Guide Jan 2000 – Aug 2004

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• Sr. Data Modeler / Developer (DW & ETL), Webkrew Inc. Dec 2002 – May 2003
• Data Developer (Wilder & Associates Inc) Sep 2002 – Nov 2002
• Senior Data Modeler / Report Developer (DW/ETL), MusicMusicMusic Inc. April 2000 – Aug 2002
• Data Analyst, MyDeLand Computers & Electronics Development Aug 1999 – April 2000
• Data Warehousing Engineer, Teva Pharmaceutical 1996-1999