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Prasad Bhandarkar

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States33 yrs experience
AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led large analytics teams across multiple locations.
  • Transformed analytics team culture into trusted business partners.
  • Implemented innovative data-driven solutions for major tech companies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a data-driven leader in the tech industry, specializing in analytics and machine learning.

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Product AnalyticsData EngineeringBig DataStrategyBusiness IntelligenceBusiness Process ImprovementDigital MarketingData ScienceAnalyticsProgram ManagementCRMIT StrategyConsultingERPBusiness Transformation

About

Analytics leader focused on managing innovative data/machine learning/artificial intelligence driven technology solutions to complex business problems. Excels in setting big vision, executing with relentless intellectual curiosity and bringing the best out of people.

Experience

33 yrs
Total Experience
4 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Meta

3 roles

Vice President, Reality Labs (AR/VR) Data Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2025Jan 2026 · 1 yr

  • Led Analytics/Data Engineering for Metaverse, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality teams. Responsible for data/ML/AI engineering for platform wide analytics. Leading 300+ team across 6 locations that supports all aspects of Meta's AR/VR platform, enabling technologies, experiences and business growth using analytics and machine learning.

Sr Director, Reality Labs (AR/VR) Data Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2020Jan 2025 · 5 yrs

  • Led Analytics/Data Engineering for Metaverse, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality teams. Responsible for data/ML/AI engineering for platform wide analytics topics. Led 230+ team across 6 locations that supports all aspects of Meta's AR/VR platform, enabling technologies, experiences and business growth using analytics and machine learning.

Director, Facebook Data Engineering

Jan 2017Jan 2020 · 3 yrs

  • Led data engineering for Facebook Community and Foundation area. My teams of ~60 talented professionals support analytics for key Facebook capabilities such as search, profile, dating, groups, events, app performance, navigation, quality and app-wide ecosystem insights. Responsible for data and analytics driven product impact on some of Facebook’s critical products through hiring and nurturing high caliber talent.

Adobe

3 roles

Director, Digital Commerce

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led digital commerce transformation program at Adobe through its planning stage.

Director, Information and Data Services

Promoted

Jan 2011Jan 2016 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Core Business Analytics Strategy: Created vision for and led execution of Adobe Dash business analytics suite to revolutionize the way Adobe engages with information and business analytics. Applied unique product management concepts to create a completely unconventional and hugely popular business performance management program recognized by Bloomberg Research for thought leadership.
  • Digital Marketing and Big Data Strategy: Led Multi-channel Personalized Digital Marketing initiative from vague concept to its full deployment enabled by BigData and Adobe Marketing Cloud to transform the way Adobe interacts with its prospects and customers. The new paradigm led to centralized segmentation and rules engine driving experiences across Website, email, display and in-product marketing channels.
  • Data Science, Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning: Managed analytics for predictive correlation between customer behavior factors and customer conversion/attrition using multivariate regression analysis.
  • Technology Risk Mitigation: Managed technical execution in context of emerging technologies such as SAP HANA, harnessing power of new technology while balancing out technology risks.
  • Business Change Leadership: Grew the quarterly active use of analytics products from zero to nearly 25% of the company in matter of 3 years, managing all aspects of
  • Team Culture Transformation: Transformed analytics team from consistent underachievers into trusted business partners with consistent record of delivery and insights. Imbibed Agile/Scrum and continuous improvement and operational excellence culture in the team.
  • Organizational Change Management: Managed large team of ~120, dispersed across three locations around the world. Led the team through organizational transformation. Managed annual budget of ~$20M.

Sr Program Manager

Jan 2006Jan 2012 · 6 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led strategic business transformation programs and initiatives, some spanning over 120 people teams across the company.

Intel corporation

Program Manager/Solution Architect

Jan 2002Jan 2006 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Architecture: Led the effort to reengineer Intel’s Microprocessor Marketing data warehouse architecture which resulted in increased velocity in projects and systems deployment (30-40%+ decrease in time to deliver) and substantially reduced total cost of ownership (50%+ reduction in support headcount and 50+% reduction in hardware costs).
  • Complex Program Leadership: Managed pricing program comprising 10+ projects supporting Intel’s quotes, rebates and price administration processes. Scope involved directly/indirectly managing and influencing 50+ people spanning three geographies and managing program budget of about $4.7 Million.

I2 technologies

Solution Architect

Jan 2000Jan 2002 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Supply Chain Management: Led i2’s consulting effort at Intel Corp. in redesigning demand forecasting and pricing business processes. Provided business design expertise to implement i2 Demand Planner/Demand Manager based solution for managing the demand forecasting and pricing processes for the core microprocessor business.

Pirelli

Business Systems Architect

Jan 1999Jan 2000 · 1 yr · Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

  • SAP Supply Chain Management: Provided leadership to redesign supply chain business processes and to SAP implementation projects as core team member for solving strategic, industry specific (cable and high tech discrete manufacturing) business problems such as determination of planning strategy specific to the product segment, inventory planning, available to promise logic implementation both in order management and supply chain management.

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Sr Consultant

Jan 1997Jan 1999 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • SAP Supply Chain Management: Led the production planning team on full life cycle SAP ECC implementation project for a leading automotive original equipment manufacturer. Provided team leadership to achieve project goals and milestones, led functional design and influenced management direction on the project.
  • Business Development: Helped with startup activities in Ernst & Young Consulting’s India practice by assisting with whatever it took to make things move.

Pwc

Consultant

Jan 1995Jan 1997 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Business Consulting: Worked on many successful management consulting engagements in areas of business process reengineering, strategic information systems planning and packaged software selection.

Tata motors

Applications Engineer

Jan 1991Jan 1993 · 2 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Software Development: Drove analysis, design, development and implementation of custom developed information systems to support financial processes of the largest Automotive manufacturer in India. Hands on programming experience using Unix, C and Oracle platforms.

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Master of Business Administration - MBA

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering — Electrical Engineering

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Certificate of Business Excellence

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