Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Remote

• Re-organized and scaled three Data-as-a-Service teams to a cross-functional unit, including senior managers, transforming data infrastructure, data governance and developer experience capabilities, achieving 95% employee satisfaction scores
• Championed the creation of a petabyte-scale, near-real-time event streaming platform using Apache Kafka on AWS, ingesting 500M+ daily events, enabling anti-cheat policy enforcement
• Owned the petabyte-scale data ecosystem on AWS, ingesting 75 TB/day, operating with 99.95% uptime
• Orchestrated vendor contract negotiations and complex renewals across several enterprise technology providers, recovering expired service credits and securing significant annual cost savings through strategic partnership

Oct 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Las Vegas, Nevada Area

• Crafted comprehensive 3-year vision and roadmap for data & ML capability evolution, hosted on
• Microsoft Azure, supporting 7,000+ users
• Turned around the data and analytics segment of the ERP modernization program, while ensuring CTO & CFO alignment, delivering within revised schedule and smooth post-launch operations
• Transformed geographically distributed 68-person organization to Agile methodology while managing the tech budget, implementing quarterly business-technology alignment sessions that improved delivery velocity by 40% and stakeholder satisfaction to 90%
• Owned the petabyte-scale cloud & legacy on-premises data platforms operating with 99.99% uptime
• Coached the business insights org on data governance framework, establishing data stewardship
• council, and implemented data sensitivity tiers

May 2016 – Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led a diverse global working group of industry experts from 35 organizations, to define vision and strategy for an open-access, cloud-native, self-service air quality data platform, advancing low-cost sensor technology and democratizing access to air quality data
• Served as Product Manager and Engineering Manager at this Non-Profit Org, directing end-to-end architecture and development on Google Cloud Platform, encompassing web applications, APIs, IoT data integration, data pipelines, visualization tools and ML development tools
• Published an article in a technical journal and presented at prestigious industry conferences on topics related to data management solutions

Nov 2011 – Apr 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed predictive analytics-driven Dynamic Pricing product for Live Events on AWS, reducing training data requirements by 95% (5 years to 3 months) and customer onboarding time by 85% (3 weeks to 3 days), generating $28M revenue and 70 successful deployments in the first year
• Led end-to-end development of a petabyte-scale, ML-driven TV Attribution product on AWS from R&D through production scaling, enabling enterprise customers to measure marketing effectiveness
• Pioneered distributed cross-functional pod structure spanning India and US teams, optimizing for local autonomy and global collaboration, achieving 30% faster feature delivery and zero employee churn over four years while managing $5M budget and 25 engineers
• Mentored 3 senior engineers by designing personalized leadership development plans, resulting in their promotion to leadership roles

Jan 2011 – Oct 2011 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• • Managed a portfolio of key enterprise customers for the cloud-based Business Intelligence SaaS ensuring exceptional customer satisfaction

Nov 2005 – Dec 2010 · 5 yrs 1 mo

• Advised senior executives (VPs & SVPs) at 12 Fortune 200 companies on data strategy and architecture transformations, developing multi-year roadmaps and overseeing implementation of analytics solutions that generated $50M+ in measurable business value across engagements
• Secured repeat business from several customers
• Turned around 2 failing enterprise data programs by restructuring 70-member team at Blue Shield of California and 25-person engagement at Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum), resolving technical design issues and rebuilding stakeholder relationships, delivering projects within revised timelines
• Led 27 globally distributed teams across 8 time zones, managing 80 client staff and contractors to successfully deliver the Master Data Management program at Electronic Arts

Sep 2004 – Nov 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Achieved a revenue growth by scaling the project team to 30 cross-functional members
• globally, driving the development of a large-scale enterprise application for Charles Schwab

Oct 2000 – Sep 2004 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Architected a near real-time Data Synchronization application to transfer data from an IMS DB to a DB2 database on Mainframe, and achieved a sub-2 seconds latency per transaction, at Ameriprise Financial
• Architected SOA based services on Mainframe using XML