The UST Data Engineering Team
Sinchan Banerjee
Robert Griner
Ricardo Jimenez
Pradeep Suryanarayan
Mitch Splichal
Edward Biton
Bijoy Bora
Amber King
Amber King
Amber King is a cloud solution architect and data strategist passionate about leveraging technology to drive business transformation. She is recognized for her expertise in data architecture, cloud integration, and modern analytics solutions that bridge the gap between technical innovation and business value. With a strong focus on designing scalable and efficient cloud-based data platforms, she helps organizations unlock the full potential of their data.
Amber thrives on solving complex challenges, enabling businesses to harness data for better decision-making, and fostering collaboration between technical and business teams. She is dedicated to continuous learning and is always exploring new opportunities to push the boundaries of data architecture and cloud technology.
Bijoy Bora
Bijoy is a key member of the Data & AI leadership team at UST, where he fosters strong relationships with some of the company's important customers. He plays a pivotal role in supporting and expanding UST's Data+AI initiatives, driving solutions alongside the Data Engineering teams across industries.
With over 25 years of experience, Bijoy has held engineering and principal roles at companies including Fujitsu, IBM, Bank of America, Southwestern Bell, Singtel Optus, and Silicon Valley startups. As co-founder and COO of Zaloni Inc., a VC funded data lake company, he played a crucial role in developing their data management platform (later rebranded as Zaloni Arena), which was acquired by Truist Bank, US's 10th largest bank. In addition to his corporate experience, Bijoy is a visiting faculty member at the University of the Pacific’s MS Data Science program in San Francisco.
Leveraging his expertise, Bijoy excels in building and managing high-performing technical teams at scale to deliver innovative, impactful solutions.
Edward Biton
Edward is an experienced technology leader with extensive expertise in big data technologies and MPP-based architectures. With over 25 years in the IT industry, he has worked extensively with key open-source technologies, including extensible distributed file systems, scalable Spark-based compute engines, MPP query engines, high-performance OLAP engines, visualization libraries, and generative AI technology integration. Edward is dedicated to making big data technology that are cost-effective and more accessible, enabling organizations to harness data effectively for informed decision-making.
Currently, he serves as the Principal Architect of UST IQ, UST’s proprietary big data platform, leading the development of cutting-edge data solutions, ensuring the platform delivers high performance, scalability, and seamless integration with modern digital ecosystems.
Mitch Splichal
Mitch Splichal is an experienced Solutions Architect specializing in data modeling, cloud architectures, and Medallion Lakehouse design. With over 20 years of experience in IT and data engineering, he has a proven track record of designing and implementing scalable, high-performance data solutions that drive digital transformation.
Mitch’s architectural approach focuses on enabling enterprises to:
• Modernize legacy data platforms with cloud-native, scalable architectures.
• Optimize data pipelines to reduce cost, improve performance, and enhance observability.
• Deliver insights by aligning data strategy with business goals.
Serving as a Solutions Architect at UST, Mitch collaborates with enterprise stakeholders, data engineers, and cloud architects to build Lakehouse solutions that enable businesses to harness their data for AI, ML, and BI applications.
Pradeep Suryanarayan
Pradeep leads the go-to-market initiatives for UST AlphaAl. He is responsible for growing the Al business by prioritizing and developing domain-led Al solutions for healthcare, asset management, retail, and CPG industry verticals. He has over 25 years of experience and began his career with product companies such as Microsoft, where he managed Windows components and published patents for his contribution. Later, he co-founded Fractal Analytics (an Al/ML-based Unicorn startup) and was also part of the core founding team at Abzooba (before its acquisition by UST).
He is an expert strategic consultant for Al and implementation services to multiple industries like banking and finance, airlines, retail and CPG, and healthcare payer and provider systems.
Ricardo Jimenez
Ricardo (Ricky) leads the MS Fabric and Azure Data practice. He is responsible for growing the business through implementation of innovative data solutions, GTM initiatives, and Microsoft partnership. As a specialist in Azure cloud solutions with 25+ years of experience, he is a modern big data solutions enthusiast and is passionate about the use of Gen AI and Agentic technology to accelerate the time to value and insights from data. His hand-on approach as a practice head at UST keeps him collaborating in the technical design of data and AI solutions.
• Lakehouse implementations in the Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks platforms
• Data warehouse design and modelling
• Graph database design
• Data governance, security and compliance solutions with Microsoft Purview
• Data agnostic ingestion engine and automated data onboarding
• Conversational solutions on data using Gen AI copilots
• Agentic designs to accelerate data analysis and engineering processes
• Data platform modernization with cloud-native, scalable architectures
Robert Griner
Robert has over 15 years of experience architecting and designing Azure, on-premises, and hybrid technology solutions with an emphasis on data and analytics for large public companies across industry verticals such as retail, pharmacy, manufacturing, entertainment, and technology. He has deep expertise in a wide range of cloud services and platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, Data Factory, and Power BI.
As the Senior Solution architect at UST, Robert leads the design and implementation of scalable, cost-effective cloud data platforms for global clients across domains.
Sinchan Banerjee
Beyond enterprise data solutions, Sinchan has made significant contributions in data engineering community. His expertise includes building complex data pipelines, predictive analytics models, and automated data processing frameworks. He holds a patent in predictive analytics and has authored the book Scalable Data Architecture with Java, further establishing his thought leadership in the field. A recipient of multiple industry awards for innovation and leadership, he actively mentors professionals, contributes to opensource community, and served as judge and reviewer in multiple awards, scientific fairs and publications.
His passion for scalable, intelligent data systems continues to shape the future of enterprise AI and data-driven decision-making.
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