The Walt Disney Company
Director of Data Engineering
Manish Kushwaha.
Data Engineering, AI & Cloud Platforms.
Data engineering leader with 25 years of experience architecting and scaling real-time, cloud-native and AI-augmented data platforms.
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Director of Data Engineering
Bangalore Urban
EXPERTISE
Data Engineering · Real-Time Streaming · Kafka & Spark · Lakehouse Architecture · Cloud Modernization · FinOps · Data Governance · GenAI & LLM Automation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Generative AI for Leadership · Agentic
EXPERIENCE
McAfee
Director of Data Engineering (Principal Engineer)
Intel Corporation
Chief Architect (Analytics at Intel)
Computer Associates
Director of Engineering
PubMatic
Architectural Manager / Principal Architect
Nokia Siemens Networks R&D
R&D
Motorola Solutions
Senior Lead Engineer / Architect
Motorola Solutions
Senior Software Engineer
Winfoware Technologies
Technical Staff Engineer
Bangalore Software Solutions
Software Engineer
Sinosef India Pvt. Limited
Software Engineer
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration - MBA — Computer Systems Analysis / Analyst · Deakin University · April 2022 - July 2024
Certificate Programme — Leadership with AI · Indian School of Business · May 2025 - October 2025
Postgraduate Degree — Business Administration and Management, General · Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad · February 2021 - February 2022
Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science · SRMS Institutions · December 1996 - December 2000
LANGUAGES / PROFESSIONAL RECORD
Hindi · English
Certifications: Six Sigma · Leadership with AI
Honors: Quarterly Innovation Impact Award · 17 Bravo Awards at Intel · Employee of the Year
Publication: IEEE 2016 Keynote Speaker on Compute and BigData Ecosystem
Patent: Detect and Secure Private Digital Content
GROUP RELATIONSHIPS
India · Bengaluru
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