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The most technically challenging project was rebuilding our internal reporting system that supported about 200 sales reps and processed roughly 5 million records a day. The specific problem was that monthly reports were taking 6–8 hours to generate and often timed out overnight. My goal was to cut that down to under an hour without losing any detail. I started by profiling the existing pipeline and saw we were doing heavy aggregations directly in the app layer. I redesigned the flow so most of the computation moved into the database and a small ETL layer. I introduced partitioned tables, proper indexing based on real query patterns, and a set of incremental materialized views instead of full recomputes. Then I wrapped it in a simple configuration-driven job scheduler with monitoring and alerts. After rollout, report time dropped from 6–8 hours to 28 minutes, and failures went from several per week to essentially zero for three consecutive quarters.
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In your civil engineering studies, what specific design coursework or project work did you complete related to irrigation channels or canals (e.g., design of lined/unlined canals, distributaries, minors)? Describe one such design in detail, including how you determined discharge, permissible velocity, section dimensions, and lining choice for Gujarat-type soil and climate conditions.
Based on your hydrology and irrigation engineering background, explain how you would estimate the irrigation water requirement for a kharif crop in a semi-arid region of Gujarat. Walk me through each step: from reference evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficient selection, effective rainfall calculation, to arriving at canal discharge for a given command area.
On your resume you mention working on a cross-functional project (e.g., involving multiple teams or stakeholders). Describe a situation from that project where priorities conflicted—how did you navigate the trade-offs and what was the final outcome?
In your resume you note improving or optimizing [a process, KPI, or metric]. What specific baseline metrics did you start from, what steps did you personally take, and how did you verify that the improvement was due to your changes rather than external factors?
Walk me through a recent multi-channel digital marketing campaign you managed end-to-end. How did you set objectives, choose channels, allocate budget, and measure success?