Bhavik Gandhi

CEO

Toronto, Ontario, Canada16 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Award-winning Data Leader with 12+ years of experience.
  • Proven success in building and leading data teams.
  • Expert in architecting and automating data systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and Analytics leader with expertise in AI and machine learning across various industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data Science LeadershipGenerative AiMachine LearningData VisualizationData Warehouse ArchitectureA/b TestingProduct ManagementData ArchitectureSql TuningRuby On Rails

Other Skills

Agile Project ManagementAkkaAlgorithm DesignAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsArtificial IntelligenceBack-End Web DevelopmentBig DataBioinformaticsBusiness AnalysisBusiness IntelligenceBusiness-to-Business (B2B)CC#C++

About

Award winning Data Leader with 12+ years of experience leading high impact multi-disciplinary teams of Data Managers, Data Scientists, Analysts and Developers solving business problems with data and driving business outcomes in complex enterprises by enforcing data rigor and cultivating a data-driven culture. Awarded multiple times for best leadership and project implementation. Proven success in setting-up and running data teams by establishing clear data policies and driving analytics sprints. Recognized for architecting and automating data systems and delivering measurable impact. Capable of overseeing distributed teams and working with stakeholders to accurately scope business requirements and provide continuous and timely delivery. Data Leader with experience across the globe from startups to MNCs, working across the data spectrum from defining business metrics to building the data plumbing (ETL/ELT, Kafka, Kinesis, Streaming pipelines) to managing and organizing data in warehouses/lakes (Redshift, S3, BigQuery, Cosmos, Hive), databases (MySQL, Postgres, SQLServer) or NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Memcached), tracking clickdata/logdata (Amplitude, GA, DataDog, Grafana, Graylog), building reports and visualizations (Looker, Tableau, Mode, Kibana, SSRS), running analytics and identifying insights and opportunities, building machine learning/deep learning/NLP/vision/recommendation models (Python, Tensorflow, R), building and maintaining A/B testing platforms and deploying said models (Docker, AWS, GCP) and building monitoring and maintaining these models and doing impact analysis Helped build and lead multidisciplinary teams to help organizations solve business and user problems with data. Hired, trained and managed over 60 data scientists, analysts, engineers and managers and worked with C-Suite stakeholders, reporting into CEOs for over 5 years now. Areas: Data Sciences, Analytics, AI, ML, Product Management and Back-end Development Specialties: Data Mining, Machine Learning, NLP, Big Data, Recommender Systems, Evolutionary Algorithms, Data Analytics, Bio-informatics, Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Algorithms, Data Structures, Databases, Data Modelling, Cubes, Analysis Services, MDX, SQL query tuning, Java, Python, R, C#, C++, SQL, MySQL, SQLServer

Experience

16 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Kubra

Head, Data

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

DatabricksLookerGenerative AIPySparkData Science Leadership

Self-employed

Data Science Consultant

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid

Deep LearningData WarehousingBusiness IntelligenceMachine LearningData Visualization

Shopify

Data Science Manager

Mar 2022Sep 2022 · 6 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

A/B TestingDashboardingTechnical LeadershipRecommender SystemsData Warehouse Architecture

Haikujam

2 roles

VP Product and Engineering

Promoted

Feb 2020Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Generative AILarge Language Models (LLM)Search Engine TechnologyProduct ManagementEngineering LeadershipNatural Language Processing (NLP)

Engineering and Product Consultant

May 2018Feb 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

Aegis school of business, data science, cyber security and telecommunication

Adjunct Faculty and Advisor

Mar 2018Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

People interactive

Senior Director, Data Science and Analytics

Feb 2017Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Machine LearningData PipelinesLooker (Software)Generative AINatural Language Processing (NLP)Deep Learning+2

Pepperfry

Associate Vice President, Services and Analytics

Oct 2015Feb 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Head a 15 member team with direct and indirect reportees in-charge of development of back-end and web services, data management, data sciences and analytics
Business-to-Business (B2B)Big DataData ArchitectureWeb AnalyticsBack-End Web DevelopmentProduct Management+14

Germin8

Lead, Data Sciences

Dec 2014Oct 2015 · 10 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Head the data sciences team at Germin8 working on various Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and other intelligent/evolutionary algorithms.

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Development Engineer

May 2012Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Worked in the Click Prediction team under Revenue and Relevance group within the Bing Ads org
  • Worked on the Click Prediction suite of Machine Learning algorithms that try to predict the probability of a click on an ad, given a query and a user. Primarily Neural Network, Logistic Regression and Machine Translation algorithms.
  • Primarily work on distributed data-mining/machine-learning algorithms to help provide insights from/analyze tera-bytes of daily data in the online search advertising space
  • Have also been working on designing (not developing) UI, building distributed sql databases and sql cubes with tera bytes of data and quick response, using ssas and ssis, writing queries using sql, mdx and Scope (a Microsoft developed language somewhat similar to Cassandra or Pig Latin) to query the data based in cloud clusters and writing code in C#.

Program Manager

Jul 2011May 2012 · 10 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Worked on the Data Warehouse team under Business Intelligence group within the Bing Ads org
  • Mainly worked on the Data Warehousing Infrastructure and Design
  • Designed multiple subject areas for the data warehouse system
  • Designed tools for meta data access
  • Designed logging mechanisms for new bing ads features

Florida museum of natural history

Programmer Analyst (part-time)

Aug 2010May 2011 · 9 mos · Gainesville Metropolitan Area

  • Develop windows applications and web applications in Java and Ruby on Rails and a Java based back-end pipeline system that would schedule jobs and execute multiple jobs in parallel

Amazon.com

Software Development Engineering Intern

May 2010Jul 2010 · 2 mos

  • Assist the team in its goal of development of a web application (FAST) using Ruby on Rails and MySQL to ease the process of Implementation Testing.
  • Design and Develop ticket-filing and related ticket surfacing features for the web application (FAST) that would save 26 work days/week for an organization within Amazon.
  • Tuned SQL queries for the web application achieving a run time improvement by a factor of 500 for most of them.

University of florida

Graduate Student

Aug 2009Apr 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

Ibm global business services

Application Developer

Aug 2008Jun 2009 · 10 mos

  • Develop and maintain windows and web applications in various technologies like C#, ASP.NET, VBA, MS-Access, MS-SQLServer and VB 6.0.
SQL TuningRuby on RailsAgile Project ManagementSoftware TestingE-Commerce Consulting

Larsen & toubro limited

Engineering Intern

May 2006Jul 2006 · 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Design a system to compute the dimensions of a pressure vessel based on various parameters

Education

University of Florida

Master of Science - MS — Computer Engineering

Aug 2009Apr 2011

National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra

Bachelor of Technology — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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