venkatesh gummadi (venky)

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led teams in building advanced data science platforms.
  • Expert in risk management and fraud detection techniques.
  • Strong background in fintech and data engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Data Science expert with strong engineering capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingData ScienceEngineeringRisk ManagementSoftware DevelopmentArchitectureAiProduct DevelopmentAnalytics

Other Skills

ARIMAETSProphetRNNsCMU SphinxDeep SpeechKaldiWave2LetterC++AlgorithmsCShell ScriptingRPython (Programming Language)Data Analysis

Experience

12 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Credit saison india

3 roles

EVP & Head - Data science, Analytics, Engineering and AI

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo

SVP & Head - Data science, Engineering and Analytics.

Promoted

Oct 2023Apr 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

Head - Data science and Analytics

Dec 2021Sep 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

Scaler

Mentor - Data science

Jan 2022Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Startups

Consultant/Advisor - Data science and engineering

Mar 2019Mar 2021 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Helped multiple startups in the design and development of MVPs across various domains of health, finance, and design.
  • Lead a team of 10 (data scientists and engineers) in building an Automated Forecasting platform equipped with state-of-the-art Forecasting techniques like ARIMA, ETS, Prophet, RNNs, etc. Provided design and architecture for the platform.
  • POC on Speech processing for Medical reports using open source tools like CMU Sphinx, Deep speech, Kaldi, and Facebook’s Wave2Letter.

Razorpay

Lead Data Scientist

Oct 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Smart Routing - Lead the platform level efforts in providing Smart routing solution for the payments processing in Razorpay core platform. Designed and implemented the solution from an engineering and data science perspective and owned the end to end pipeline which helped the company improve the payment success rate by ~ 5% points.
  • Risk and Fraud - Conducted multiple POCs for Merchant and Customer level Risk and Fraud predictions serving some of Razorpay’s biggest clients. Setup the initial Risk platform for real time payment processing.
  • Contributed to Data engineering projects like Data lake and Data warehousing at design and architecture level.

Startups

Startups — Engineering and A.I.

Apr 2017Sep 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangaluru

  • NotinQ - Founding member and Lead Engineer, responsible for the development of backend and catalogue management system for an online grocery app which helps customers place their grocery baskets for auction which can be bid by Super Markets in the hyperlocal space.
  • Iconic - Consultant/ Advisor for Architecture and AI. Provided design and architecture for a ‘social network management system for celebrities’. Provisional patent filed.
  • Phoenix - Founder and Head Technology. Developed business plan for a News aggregation system after a thorough market research. Prototyped multiple functionalities for automated content tagging, summarization and presentation.

Gain credit

3 roles

senior leader - Data Science and Analytics

Jun 2016Dec 2016 · 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Ran multiple challengers (A/B tests) for Risk and Fraud estimations of customers using social network and psychometric data. Helped the teams across the board in data engineering and modelling for customer behavior predictions.

Architect - ML and Platform engineering

Promoted

May 2015May 2016 · 1 yr · Chennai Area, India

  • Provided technical guidance to a team of ~50 in building cutting-edge, distributed and microservice based, fintech platform for online lending.
  • Designed and architected modules for Data warehousing, engineering, modelling and deployment.
  • Implemented Automated testing environment, A/B testing and Rule management systems.
  • Developed a robust messaging layer on the top of RabbitMQ for communication between microservices.

Senior Technical Lead - ML engineering

Oct 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Lead a team of 10~15 members in building an Automated modelling platform which helped in creation and maintenance of Data Lake, Warehouse.
  • Helped in the automation of various modelling and deployment steps of Data science works of analytics teams.
  • Did independent Product/Project management for the platform from collecting business requirements to planning and execution.

Global analytics

2 roles

Team Lead - Data science R&D

May 2012Oct 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Actively participated in data science and engineering processes for customer behavior predictions across multiple dimensions like Risk, Fraud, Churn, Propensity etc.
  • Built a prototype for simplifying and automating data science, engineering and deployment processes.
  • Developed an Uplift modelling module for better comparisons between multiple challengers and champion business strategies.

Research scientist - Data science R&D

Jul 2011Apr 2012 · 9 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Analytics and Data science related works across multiple domains ranging from Risk and Fraud predictions, Outlier detection, Text processing and NLP etc.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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