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Engineering leader with over 18 years of experience improving business productivity & growth by implementing Data and AI-driven solutions. Open to global roles and relocation with valid US work authorization.
Leads data science, engineering, and platform programs across forecasting, GenAI/LLM automation, agentic AI, and financial operations—driving measurable outcomes in cost reduction, stability, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence.
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Director, Data Science at Walmart
November 1, 2025 - PresentLeading Data Science & Engineering team to leverage GenAI capabilities for finance operations. Developing advanced models and AI bots for legal process transformation through document analysis and LLMs. Driving innovation for financial forecasting, multivariate time series forecasting, and agentic AI to deliver impactful results. Accountable for decisions that improved cross-team knowledge sharing and job satisfaction by 40%.
Principal Solutions Architect at MapR (acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
October 1, 2016 - June 1, 2019Built architectures and solutions to define test environments for 20+ partners (ISV/SI/GSI) to certify the platform. Worked with product engineering to create 5 new AI/ML services and features. Prepared and presented technical solutions to business and product owners, advising on tradeoffs and opportunities to grow the practice by 7% YoY.
AWS Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (MapR/AWS field role)
June 1, 2016 - November 1, 2019Thought leader and customer-facing architect authoring 15+ AWS publications and driving GTM initiatives such as self-starter guides, white papers, blogs, and an AWS certification question bank for field enablement. Drove $8M in TCO savings by modernizing large, complex enterprise data and AI/ML platforms. Enabled customers as a trusted advisor by innovating on their behalf; also contributed to marketing & growth via personalization and marketing attribution. Evaluated and productionalized GenAI/LLM/LangChain/RAG use cases, reducing ad-hoc requests to engineers by 60%. As Bar Raiser, built and managed a global hiring/team operating model to improve team productivity by 30%.
Data Science Manager at Hitachi
October 1, 2015 - October 1, 2016Built predictive maintenance applications to improve efficiency of mining trucks by 33% by collecting and analyzing telematics data from IoT sensors in a scalable data platform. Using edge computing implemented a computer vision solution to optimize supply chain by 20%.
Principal Architect / Sr. Director at Oportun
November 1, 2013 - November 1, 2025Led high-impact data engineering and data science projects in collaboration with organizational leaders to improve application stability by 35%, reduce OPEX by 20%, and minimize technical debt by 30%. Managed initiatives improving operational excellence, business continuity, and unit economics, reducing ML model development time by 70%. Owned strategic platform engineering roadmap considering future needs and mechanisms to improve project quality & efficiency by up to 30%.
Solutions Architect at Sears Holdings
March 1, 2013 - October 1, 2015Implemented machine learning algorithms for advanced analytics use cases including demand forecasting, classification, and clustering in supply chain. Led a team of senior data engineers to build scalable applications on the Hadoop ecosystem and rearchitected POS mainframe application, helping save $10M in licensing cost.
Sr. Data Engineer at Infosys
August 1, 2009 - March 1, 2013Advanced ETL and Python development with performance tuning of OLTP and OLAP systems. Implemented big data ecosystem to derive insights by collaborating with project teams.
Education
Master in Computer Science Engineering at University of Texas, Austin
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026Bachelor in Computer Science Engineering at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026Qualifications
Deep Learning AI Certified (Large Language Model Developer)
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026Deep Learning AI Certified (Generative AI for Everyone)
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026LinkedIn Certified Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026LinkedIn Certified Generative AI Developer
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026AWS Certified Big Data Specialty
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026AWS Certified Security Specialty
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026AWS Certified Database Specialty
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026AWS Certified Developer Associate
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026MAPR Certified Hadoop Developer
January 11, 2030 - August 26, 2026Industry Experience
Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics, Education, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment
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