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A strategic Data Executive with 20 years of experience architecting enterprise-scale data ecosystems and pioneering AI/GenAI initiatives.

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A strategic Data Executive with 20 years of experience architecting enterprise-scale data ecosystems and pioneering AI/GenAI initiatives for global organizations. Proven expertise in scaling high-performance engineering departments and translating complex data capabilities into sustainable revenue growth and operational excellence. Expert in leading large-scale digital transformations, including M&A integrations and the transition to modern Data Mesh architectures, while partnering with C-suite stakeholders to define multi-year technology roadmaps.

Work Experience

Head of Data Engineering & BI Applications

Fanatics (San Mateo, CA)

Oct 2022 – Present
  • Architected and led the transition from legacy SQL Server to a modern, event-based Data Mesh architecture for the Global Order Management (GOM) system. This strategic shift enabled seamless M&A scalability and established a foundation for enterprise-wide real-time analytics.
  • Spearheaded operational efficiency by delivering a massive increase in quality of data assets by reducing data incidents by 76% and improving data processing speeds by 92% across global operations.
  • Defined the strategic roadmap for real-time order analytics, spearheading the migration from Druid to StarRocks. This initiative achieved a consistent 3-minute latency for global reporting, empowering executive leadership with instantaneous decision-making capabilities.
  • Served as the strategic lead for data initiatives across Digital Experience, Pricing & Promo Management, and Experimentation pillars. Partnered with business unit leaders to drive data-centric product improvements and high-impact business initiatives.
  • Directed the implementation of GCP Dialogflow with GenAI features to replace legacy chatbot infrastructure. This project directly improved Net Promoter Scores (NPS) and Customer Effort Scores (CES), significantly enhancing the digital customer journey.
  • Built and scaled a top-tier Data and BI engineering organization from the ground up to support the rapidly expanding global analytics requirements of the business.

Sr Manager for Data Platforms and Tooling

Salesforce.com (San Francisco, CA)

Jun 2020 – Oct 2022
  • Led Marketing Data Lake migration to GCP, implementing MLOps via Dataiku and Snowflake data warehouse integration.
  • Architected modern data stack using Fivetran, DBT, Docker, and Airflow with automated CI/CD via Jenkins.
  • Developed Marketing ROI analytics framework including causal inference models for campaign performance measurement.

Lead Data Scientist – Pricing Intelligence and Monetization

Salesforce.com (San Francisco, CA)

Jan 2015 – May 2020
  • Built comprehensive pricing data lake integrating multi-dimensional customer and product data across Salesforce ecosystem.
  • Developed ML models for customer upgrade prediction and product recommendations, deployed via Einstein Analytics.
  • Created churn prediction model analyzing customer usage patterns, login frequency, and APEX code metrics.

Senior Member of Technical Staff – Enterprise Big Data Apps

Salesforce.com (San Francisco, CA)

Apr 2013 – Jan 2015
  • Implemented Salesforce Wave for Finance, enabling real-time ACV analysis and KPI tracking across platforms.
  • Engineered early warning system processing 3TB daily logs, driving $1.5B revenue impact.
  • Architected petabyte-scale Hadoop cluster (100+ nodes) for Salesforce's application log processing.

Senior BI Engineer

Hotwire.com (Expedia Inc.) (San Francisco, CA)

Jan 2010 – Apr 2013
  • Implemented an end-to-end BI data strategy for a new business initiative called Destination Services, which generated ~3M dollars of annualized incremental revenue and ~62K new bookings on the platform.
  • Awarded the top automated email marketing campaigns to upsell travelers with timely targeting and "hard to miss" deep travel discounts on air, car and hotel deals.

Data Analyst

Verizon (Irving, TX)

Jul 2008 – Sep 2009
  • Resolved Verizon's customer issues received on an average of ~250 issues per month, with the ordering & provisioning system by data scrubbing and performing custom analysis for issue resolution to achieve optimal customer satisfaction.

ETL Developer

HSBC Global Technology (Pune, India)

Aug 2005 – Jul 2007
  • Developed the Basel Reporting DWH framework for Finance audits and reporting via Cognos for a user base of 19,000 employees.
  • Cut projected time for data analysis by one week by developing reusable ETL datasets in DB2 using DataStage jobs.

Technical Skills

Languages & Big Data

PythonSQLScalaPySparkHive

Cloud & Infrastructure

SalesforceGCPAWSOCI

Data Science & ML

DataikuDataRobotH2O.aiDatabricksTensorFlowscikit-learn

Database & Analytics

SnowflakeBigQueryPostgresRedshiftStarRocksOracleDB2

BI & Visualization

TableauMicroStrategySupersetPowerBI

Data Integration

InformaticaJitterbitKnimeAlteryxFivetranDBTAirflowAlation

DataOps

JenkinsGitHub ActionsDockerKubernetes

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

Aug 2007 - Jul 2009

University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

Specialization in Data Mining and AI NLP applications

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications

Sep 2001 - May 2005

University of Mumbai - VESIT, Mumbai, India

Certifications

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Gen AI Practitioner
  • Google Cloud Certified Cloud Leader
  • Dataiku – MLOps Practitioner