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Arpan Asawa

@arpanasawa

Principal Software Engineer

India
English, Hindi
About me
I am a highly driven Architect and Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience in designing and scaling massive-scale data platforms and web services. I specialize in Data Privacy, Compliance, and Big Data, having led strategic projects at Microsoft and Snowflake managing petabytes of data.... Read more

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Work experience

Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer | Substrate Intelligence

Microsoft • Full-time

Mar 2024 - Jun 2025 • 1 yr 3 mos

Drove the architecture for a massive-scale data platform moving ~250TB/day to the data lake for AI/ML workloads. Led the Data Catalogue/Governance team managing metadata for ~1B data paths. Ensured regulatory compliance (SOC2, FedRAMP) and managed a 10PB data retention service adhering to GDPR.

Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer (L6/Staff Equivalent) | Data Privacy

Snowflake • Full-time

May 2022 - Jun 2023 • 1 yr 1 mo

Drove strategic Data Privacy projects from inception to Private Preview. Designed and implemented a service for automatic data classification of Snowflake tables and developed a feature for dynamic privacy tag-based masking policies during SELECT statements, facilitating technical discussions across teams.

Microsoft

Various Roles including Tech Lead and Architect | Substrate Intelligence

Microsoft • Full-time

Aug 2015 - Apr 2022 • 6 yrs 8 mos

Served as Tech Lead and Architect for the Substrate Intelligence Platform. Innovated DSR Tables for efficient GDPR-compliant data deletion. Led teams focused on privacy and governance for AI/ML experimentation on Office data and defined the architecture roadmap for large-scale data engineering workloads.