Shankar Vedaraman — CEO
Strategic data, analytics, and AI leader with extensive experience and expertise in driving enterprise data strategy, analytics modernization, and intelligent automation at scale. I specialize in building scalable, AI-ready data platforms and architecting trusted, self-serve insights that power executive decision-making and operational excellence across Product, Finance, GTM, and Customer Success functions. At Salesforce, I led the definition and rollout of Key Enterprise Metrics as the single source of truth for business performance and strategy execution, and partnered cross-functionally to modernize the analytics ecosystem—from metric governance to intelligent data agents. Prior to that, I led data engineering and analytics teams at Netflix across diverse data domains including Finance, Payments, Growth, Infrastructure, and Security—delivering scalable data solutions, ML-driven insights, and real-time analytics that powered global growth and operational resilience. I’m passionate about aligning data architecture with business strategy, enabling responsible AI innovation, and mentoring high-performing global teams. My approach blends hands-on technical expertise with strategic foresight—bridging the gap between engineering and the C-suite to turn data into measurable business impact.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS data and AI engineering leader with extensive experience in analytics and data strategy.
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Experience: 19 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Data Strategy
- Ai Integration
- Data Governance
- Data Science
- Data Management
- Data Engineering
- Analytics
- Security Analytics
- Business Intelligence
- It Management
- Application Development
- Business Application Services
Career Highlights
- Led data strategy at Lyft for corporate functions.
- Spearheaded Key Enterprise Metrics rollout at Salesforce.
- Built AI-ready data platforms driving business impact.
Work Experience
Lyft
Head of Corporate Data & Analytics (9 mos)
Salesforce
Data Engineering Leader - Enterprise Metrics (3 yrs 6 mos)
Data Engineering Leader - Product Metrics (2 yrs 11 mos)
Netflix
Data Engineering Leader (1 yr 3 mos)
Data Engineering and Analytics Leader, Cloud Infrastructure Analytics (8 mos)
Data Engineering and Analytics Leader, Cloud Security Analytics (1 yr 11 mos)
Manager, Payments Analytics (3 yrs 2 mos)
Sr. Data Architect, Data Science and Engineering (1 yr 9 mos)
Rovi
Director, Reporting Services (10 mos)
Sonic Solutions
Sr Director, Business Intelligence (1 yr)
Director IT applications (1 yr 9 mos)
Applications Manager (3 yrs 5 mos)
Education
Master's degree at Northwestern University
Masters at Alagappa University, India