// Sydney, Australia · Data Platform Leadership

Madhusudan
Bhaskar

I help organisations build data foundations that actually get used — modern platforms, clear ownership, and the enablement that makes adoption stick.

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$30M+
Platform Program
Shaping cloud-native data platform strategy at CBA — designed to enable data science, ML, and self-serve analytics at enterprise scale
15 yrs
Financial Services
End-to-end platform delivery across CBA, Macquarie, and KPMG — from architecture and governance through to product definition and business enablement
100
Critical Data Elements
Led the enterprise CDE program at Macquarie — governing the organisation's most critical data assets with clear ownership and quality standards

// About

Platform thinker.
Technical depth.

I'm a data platform leader with 15+ years building the data foundations that organisations depend on to make decisions, manage risk, and scale their capabilities.

My background spans the full platform stack — ingestion, transformation, orchestration, governance, and analytics — and I've spent the last several years operating at the intersection of platform architecture and product thinking.

At Commonwealth Bank I'm shaping platform strategy within a large-scale modernisation program — moving from legacy infrastructure to a modern cloud-native stack specifically to unlock data science and self-serve analytics. At Macquarie I owned end-to-end delivery of reusable data platforms across credit risk, market data, and compliance functions.

I think about data platforms the way product leaders think about products — with users, adoption, and outcomes at the centre, not just architecture and infrastructure.

Platform & Technical Fluency

Cloud Platforms
Snowflake · AWS · Databricks · Redshift · Iceberg · Azure
Data Processing
dbt · Spark · Kafka · Airflow · Glue
Analytics & BI
Power BI · Tableau · Semantic Layer design
Languages
SQL · Python
Governance
Metadata models · Data lineage · Access controls · Data contracts
Product & Delivery
Platform roadmaps · Operating model design · Stakeholder alignment · Agile

// Experience

Where I've done the work

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Mar 2025 — Present
Commonwealth Bank
Current
Senior Manager — Enterprise Data Platforms
Platform strategy and product leadership within a $30M+ data modernisation program, with an explicit mandate to enable data science, ML, and self-serve analytics at enterprise scale.
  • Shaped the multi-year platform roadmap across ingestion, transformation and consumption layers — balancing engineering investment, team readiness, and data science demand
  • Led evaluation and selection of modern cloud-native stack (Snowflake, Iceberg, dbt) to replace legacy Teradata — chosen specifically to unlock self-serve and ML consumption patterns
  • Co-defined what a data product means for the organisation — designing the operating model that governs how products are built, owned, published, and consumed
  • Ran enablement programs helping business units adopt the data product model — translating platform capabilities into practical frameworks for non-technical stakeholders
  • Represented platform strategy at enterprise design authority forums, ensuring alignment to governance standards and long-term direction
Nov 2022 — Mar 2025
Macquarie Group
Corporate Ops
Senior Manager — Data & Solution Architect
End-to-end ownership of data platform products supporting risk analytics, regulatory reporting, and compliance across multiple business divisions.
  • Conceived and delivered 'Data Junction' — a reusable internal data platform integrating batch (Spark) and streaming (Kafka) pipelines for credit risk, from problem definition to production
  • Owned the platform roadmap for market data consolidation — rationalising multiple vendor feeds into a single governed, trusted source for analytics and risk teams
  • Led vendor selection and delivery of a Model Risk Management platform, balancing build-vs-buy trade-offs against regulatory timelines
  • Acted as voting member of the divisional architecture forum — shaping platform decisions across the group
Mar 2020 — Nov 2022
Macquarie Group
Risk Mgmt Group
Senior Manager — Non-Financial Risk Data & Analytics
Led the data function as 2IC to the Head of NFR Data, responsible for global reporting platforms, data quality, and enterprise data governance.
  • Built the global NFR reporting platform from the ground up — consolidating data across jurisdictions for executive and board-level stakeholders
  • Led the enterprise Critical Data Elements program — governing the 100 most critical data assets with clear ownership and quality standards
  • Designed a legal entity data platform resolving a fragmented ownership landscape across divisions
  • Improved data quality and lineage visibility — materially reducing reporting errors and strengthening confidence in data outputs
Mar 2017 — Mar 2020
KPMG Australia
Consulting
Manager — Data & Analytics Consulting
Data platform strategy and analytics uplift across banking, insurance, telco, and government clients.
  • Led a platform assessment for a major insurer identifying $10M+ in optimisation opportunities
  • Redesigned operational metrics for a major Australian telco — reducing issue resolution time by 18%
  • Delivered end-to-end reporting platform for a government agency, collapsing reporting cycle from two days to same-day
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// Thinking

Ideas worth sharing

Data Products · Platform
The hardest part of building a data product isn't the technology
Had a conversation recently with a business team about defining their first data product. The hardest part wasn't the architecture — it was agreeing on what the data product actually is.
Read on LinkedIn →
Data Modelling · AI
AI can write SQL. It can’t design your data model
AI can generate SQL in seconds. That’s not where teams struggle anymore. What’s still hard is deciding what to build, how to structure it, and what “good” actually looks like.
Read on LinkedIn →

// Credentials

Certifications &
Education

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AWS Certified Data Analytics — Specialty
Amazon Web Services
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
Amazon Web Services
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
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TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect
The Open Group
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Professional Scrum Master I
Scrum.org
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MCSA — BI Reporting
Microsoft
Education
Bachelor of Engineering — Electronics & Communication
JSS Academy of Technical Education · 2005–2009

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