01 · RAW DATA FIELDS
Technical Lead → Next: Analytics Manager

Welcome to the Data Valley. Scroll to travel it.

Manohar Chekka — Technical Lead, Data & Analytics. This valley is the journey I run every day: raw data at base camp, insight at the summit. I'm ready to guide a team through it as their manager.

Begin the journey

I've spent six years doing leadership-shaped work without the title — mentoring developers, setting governance standards, presenting to senior leadership, and acting as de facto product owner. Now I'm making it official: I'm looking for a BI or Analytics Manager role where I can lead people, not just practice.

The journey · drag through time

Four roles. One direction:
toward leading people.

04
2025 — Present ● Now

Technical Lead — Power BI Center of Excellence

Wipro · Toronto (Major Canadian Bank)

I lead the technical direction of the CoE: governance, review and approval standards, delivery quality. Designed the Copilot enablement and governance framework the team adopted. Mentor BI developers across the bank — semantic model reviews, DAX and architecture guidance. Built a Tableau-to-Power BI migration accelerator and presented it to senior stakeholders. Contributed to the platform's growth from a 250-user pilot to 3,000+ users in production as part of the enablement program.

03
2023 — 2025

Data Engineer · De Facto Product Owner

TD Bank · Toronto

Data engineer on Athena — TD's enterprise data platform across Databricks, Snowflake, and Synapse — who grew into product-owner responsibilities. Gathered requirements across business units, helped prioritize the backlog, coordinated delivery. Built three mission-critical KPIs from scratch (CES, LEI, FCR) the bank still uses. Delivered 30%+ pipeline optimization through PySpark tuning. Mentored junior engineers through code reviews.

02
2019 — 2021

BI Engineer & Business Development Analyst

Byju's · Hyderabad, India

Owned the analytics lifecycle end-to-end — requirements gathering, dimensional modeling, executive dashboards, ETL delivery. Worked directly with stakeholders to define priorities and timelines. Built real-time streaming pipelines with Kafka and automated deployments with Airflow and Jenkins.

01
2017 — 2019

Administrative Manager & Database Administrator

Padmavati Hospitals · Hyderabad, India

My first management role — staff, vendors, budgets, compliance, and clinical operations at a multi-specialty hospital. Built the cross-functional coordination, stakeholder management, and decision-making instincts that underpin everything since.

Honest scoreboard

Impact — and whose it was.

Every card is tagged Mine or Team. Knowing the difference is part of being ready to manage.

Mine
3 KPIs

Built from zero at TD

CES, LEI, FCR — designed and shipped metrics the bank still uses to measure customer experience.

Mine
30%+

Faster pipelines

PySpark optimization across core ETL — measurable cost and runtime savings.

Mine
Copilot

Governance framework

Designed the enablement and governance framework the CoE adopted for safe AI rollout.

Team
3,000+

Users at scale

Platform adoption from a 250-user pilot to bank-wide production — an enablement effort I contributed to.

Team
Standards

Review & approval process

Helped shape the semantic model rules and review process that keep bank-wide reporting trustworthy.

Mine
2

Ventures shipped solo

Conceived, built, and launched two live products end-to-end — AI and healthcare.

After hours

Built solo. Shipped live.

Toolbox

The stack flows both ways.

Mentoring & CoachingPower BIDAXProduct ThinkingSnowflakeDatabricksStakeholder CommsMicrosoft FabricAzure SynapseGovernance Mentoring & CoachingPower BIDAXProduct ThinkingSnowflakeDatabricksStakeholder CommsMicrosoft FabricAzure SynapseGovernance
SQL / T-SQLPythonPySparkAgile / ScrumAzure Data FactoryKafkaTableauReview StandardsCI/CD · GitPurview · RBAC SQL / T-SQLPythonPySparkAgile / ScrumAzure Data FactoryKafkaTableauReview StandardsCI/CD · GitPurview · RBAC

Gradient pills = leadership muscles · PG Diploma, Data Analytics — St. Clair College, Canada · B.Tech — KL University, India

Stage 04 · Summit of insight

You made it to the summit.
Now hire the guide.

BI/Analytics Manager · Product Owner · Data Engineering Manager. Toronto or hybrid. I've been leading in practice — I'm ready for the title.

manoharch0698@gmail.com · Toronto, ON · 519-992-8680