Hari Gopinath

Hari is a passionate Data & AI strategist with 15+ years of IT experience, specializing in solution architecture for cloud-based platforms. With a career marked by driving technical vision and AI adoption, he consistently demonstrates his ability to lead and empower teams across complex enterprise transformations.

He has a remarkable track record in architecting scalable data engineering, warehousing, and Generative AI solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP. He possesses exceptional stakeholder engagement and technical leadership skills, building enduring positive client relationships and delivering measurable business outcomes.

Prior to his current role at Federato, Hari served as a Resident Solutions Architect at Databricks for 5 years and held senior engineering leadership roles at CGI Global and Cognizant, championing innovation, mentoring cross-functional groups, and accelerating enterprise-wide data maturity.

Relevant Experience

Cloud & AI Strategy Lead: Expert in multi-cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP), Medallion architecture, and Databricks platform designs. Member of EMEA Migration SWAT team, delivering major data migrations (e.g. $1.2M deal) and earning the Global Analytics SME Award.

Framework & Platform Development: Developed full-stack automated implementation frameworks combining Python/JavaScript with GCP infrastructure, streamlined customer onboarding cycles, and architected Delta Lake solutions that evolved into Delta Operations Metrics Store under Databricks Labs.

Technical Leadership & Team Scaling: Scaled Professional Services team at Databricks from 3 to 30 members through structured onboarding and mentoring, led strategic legacy modernizations with CI/CD and DevOps, and trained 500+ engineers on Big Data and Cloud technologies.