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Open to Opportunities · Toronto

Manohar
Chekka

Senior data and product leader — owning enterprise analytics platforms, driving product roadmaps, and delivering measurable business outcomes at scale across financial services.

Toronto, ON · Canada
Product · Analytics · Data
Financial Services
Cloud · AI · Governance
5.5+
Years Experience
3,000+
Platform Users
30%+
Pipeline Optimized
2
Live Products Built
About

Product thinking
meets engineering depth

I sit at the intersection of product ownership and technical depth. My career has been built on translating complex business requirements into data products that actually ship — on time, at scale, in regulated environments.

Currently leading a Power BI Center of Excellence at a major Canadian bank — owning the product roadmap, managing backlog, and driving delivery from pilot to production. Rolled out Copilot AI with an enterprise governance framework I built from scratch and presented to financial risk leadership.

Previously at TD Bank, served as de facto product owner for the Athena platform — a single-source-of-truth financial data system built on Databricks, Snowflake, and Azure Synapse — delivering KPIs that fundamentally changed how the bank measures performance.

Expertise

Product Ownership

Backlog, roadmaps, sprint planning, stakeholder prioritization

Data Platforms

Snowflake, Databricks, Synapse, Fabric, Power BI

Cloud Architecture

Azure (expert), AWS, GCP, CI/CD, DevOps pipelines

Engineering

ETL/ELT, SQL, Python, PySpark, performance optimization

Governance & AI

RBAC, GDPR, AML, Copilot AI governance, Purview

Leadership

Team management, vendor negotiation, exec presentations

Experience

Career trajectory

From data engineering to product-led platform leadership.

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2025 — Present
Current

Analytics & Product Lead — CoE

Wipro · Toronto (Major Canadian Bank)

Own the product roadmap and backlog for a Power BI enterprise analytics platform. Consolidated three teams into one CoE, executed a 250-user pilot, and scaled to 3,000+ business users. Designed and launched Copilot AI governance framework adopted as bank-wide policy. Direct engagement with Microsoft on platform roadmap and Fabric strategy.

Product OwnershipPower BIFabricCopilot AIGovernanceAgile
2023 — 2025

Data Engineer · De Facto Product Owner

TD Bank · Toronto

Product owner for Athena — TD Bank's enterprise financial data platform across Databricks, Snowflake, and Azure Synapse. Managed full backlog, wrote business requirements, and drove end-to-end delivery. Built three mission-critical KPIs (CES, LEI, FCR) from zero. Delivered 30%+ pipeline optimization. Supported NACO and TECE lines of business.

SnowflakeDatabricksSynapsePySparkSQLAMLKPIs
2019 — 2021

BI Engineer & Business Analyst

Byju's · Hyderabad

End-to-end analytics lifecycle: requirements gathering, dimensional modelling, executive dashboards, and ETL pipeline delivery. SSIS, Kafka streaming, Airflow automation, Jenkins CI/CD. Agile Scrum environment with direct stakeholder collaboration.

SSISPower BIKafkaAirflowSQL
2018 — 2019

Hospital Administrator & Operations Lead

Padmavati Hospitals · India

Managed end-to-end operations for a multi-specialty hospital — staff, vendors, billing, compliance reporting, and clinical quality metrics. Built cross-functional coordination and stakeholder management skills that underpin every product role since.

OperationsReportingComplianceHealthcare
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Impact

Measurable outcomes

What shipped and what it delivered.

3,000+

Platform Scale

Enterprise analytics platform rolled out to bank-wide users from a 250-person pilot.

30%+

Runtime Reduced

PySpark and Delta Lake optimization across core ETL pipelines at TD Bank.

3 KPIs

Built from Zero

CES, LEI, FCR — enterprise performance metrics now driving bank-wide decisions.

3 Teams

Unified CoE

Three separate Power BI teams consolidated into one governed operating model.

Copilot

AI Governance

Enterprise AI framework tested against financial risk use cases and adopted as policy.

2

Products Shipped

Live software products built and launched independently — AI and healthcare domains.

Projects

Built independently

Products conceived, designed, and shipped outside of corporate work.

AI · SaaS · Live

PromptCue

thepromptcue.com

An AI prompt generation platform targeting marketers, developers, and business professionals. Owns the full product lifecycle — requirements, design, API integration, and deployment. Built on Claude AI API with an Apify-powered data backend. Live and publicly accessible.

Claude APIApifyProduct DesignFull Stack
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Healthcare · Fintech · Live

HealPath Global

healpathglobal.com

A healthcare concierge platform connecting patients with JCI-accredited hospitals and coordinating end-to-end medical travel. Built on deep healthcare operations experience. Patient-first service design model. Incorporated in Ontario, Canada as HealPath Global Concierge Inc.

HealthcareProductOntario Inc.Patient Journey
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Technical

Stack

Pipeline code to executive dashboards.

Platforms & Cloud

  • Snowflake
  • Azure Synapse
  • Databricks
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure / AWS / GCP

Languages

  • SQL / T-SQL (Advanced)
  • Python
  • PySpark / SparkSQL
  • DAX / Power Query M
  • R
  • Kafka / Event Hub

Product & Leadership

  • Backlog & Roadmap Ownership
  • Agile / Scrum
  • JIRA / Confluence
  • Power BI / Tableau
  • CI/CD / DevOps / Git
  • Purview / Collibra / RBAC
Education

Background

PG Diploma — Data Analytics for Business

St. Clair College · Windsor, ON · Canada

Bachelor of Technology — Computer Science

KL University · India
Contact

Let's talk

Exploring Product Owner, Analytics Manager, and Senior Data roles in the GTA and remotely. Open to fintech, banking, healthcare, and technology sectors.

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