Apurva Desai

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States31 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 25 years in software product development.
Expertise in Big Data and Cloud technologies.
Led large-scale data analytics initiatives at Google.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Big Data expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data AnalyticsCloud ComputingBig Data

Other Skills

Data governanceData qualityMetadata managementHadoopSparkWorkflow orchestrationETLData integrationApache AirflowCloud servicesData processingHadoop distributionAnalytics WorkbenchTeam buildingHadoop solutions

About

Experienced engineering executive with a combination of technology delivery experience, integration and management of distributed teams including overseas teams. 25+ years experience in the software industry developing products. Expertise with BigData, Hadoop and Cloud technologies, Internet services, mobile and embedded applications. Experience working in large size companies to early stage startups for product development and delivery. Patents awarded – 1 (US Patent # 6,011,873) Specialties: BigData, Cloud Computing, Hadoop/Spark, Distributed systems

Experience

Jpmorganchase

Managing Director / MD / SVP Data Platforms

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos · California, United States/New Jersey, United States

Outdoors

Retired

Nov 2024 – Oct 2025 · 11 mos

Biked 2000+ miles
Hiked 600+ miles
Pet project using vscode+copilot
Gained 10lbs :)
Mental detox
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Google

Sr. Director, Engineering - Data Analytics - Google Cloud

Nov 2015 – Nov 2024 · 9 yrs · Mountain View

Responsible for building and growing Data & Analytics product portfolio that includes:
Cloud Dataplex (Data governance, lineage, data quality, catalog, metadata management)
Cloud Dataproc (Hadoop, Spark, Serverless Spark)
Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow -workflow orchestration)
Cloud Data Fusion CDAP - ETL and Data Integration)
Dataproc Metastore (Managed Hive Metastore)
Dataflow (Cloud native unified Batch and Stream processing engine)
Beam (Open source SDK to run Dataflow)

Data governanceData qualityMetadata managementHadoopSparkWorkflow orchestration+4

Motorola mobility (a lenovo company)

Sr. Director - Mobile Cloud Engineering

Aug 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

Cloud based data services for mobile devices
Services: FOTA, Customer support
Data processing: Hadoop. Spark, Google Cloud Data services

Cloud servicesData processingHadoopSparkCloud Computing

Emc/greenplum/pivotal (now vmware -> broadcom)

Sr. Director - Hadoop Engineering

Apr 2011 – Aug 2014 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible to build Greeplum/Pivotal Hadoop distribution
Also responsible for 1000 node Analytics Workbench
Built a strong geo distributed team across Palo Alto, Israel, Shanghai, Beijing and India

Hadoop distributionAnalytics WorkbenchTeam buildingBig Data

Yahoo!

Director, Engineering

Sep 2005 – Apr 2011 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

2009-2011 - Hadoop solutions team, managed 25000 nodes of Hadoop at Yahoo, Onboarded internal Yahoo properties to using Hadoop
2007-2009 - Large scale integration of Yahoo's next generation display advertisement platform
2005-2007 - 24x7x365 Big Data pipeline - Click Through Protection to analyze revenue generating clicks for spam and invalid clicks

Hadoop solutionsBig Data pipelineIntegrationBig Data