Pavan Kumar Adukuri

Responsible for all data engineering and ML engineering - platforms, tools and pipelines.

• Developed best practices for usage of ML platform, SnowFlake - ease of use, better governance and cost control.
• Responsible for development of ML pipelines - KYC, Transaction Monitoring and analytical services - Cash Flow Insights
• Defined hiring process. Hired 6 ML and Data Engineers and successfully onboarded them in challenging market situation.
• Identified design issues in ML pipeline services and implemented them thru OKRs partially. Defined plan to address gaps in data engineering pipelines.
• Worked with vendors to identify best options for ELT tools
• Consolidated cloud services - SnowFlake, Databricks, Tecton for better security and cost benefits.
• Developed solution for PCI compliance, implemented solution with contractor

Lead Digital Enablement technology team for Supply Chain & Sales Operations team. Delivered visibility and efficiency of Supply chain operations for Business thru data integration, analytics and development of collaborative applications that enabled real time action for Business.

• Delivered mission critical apps such as Order Book, Logistics Tracker, Material Shortage platform, Speed & Predictability among some of the delivered apps. These apps saved many millions of dollars - improved end to end order visibility and decisions, which in effect reduced order backlog ($300-500Mn estimated revenue impact due to material shortage issues and resolution delays)
• Developed CoE for technology thru resource hiring, retention at India and Singapore - both full time & contractors
• Data Engineering Platform: Ingests data from internal ERP & external partner systems into data lake. Provides data models for consumption of reporting & web apps using steam & batch pipelines
• API platform: Cloud hosted API GW and Citizen integrator framework to connect external partner systems with data platform. Manufacturing partners and Logistics partners have been onboarded to bring real time data.
• Web Platform: Cloud based platform that provides web frameworks, services, hosting platform for nimble development and deployment of web apps
• Achieved a 50% efficiency gain in operations cost thru technology migration and team re-skilling.

Responsible for the development and implementation of a comprehensive product strategy and architecture. Responsible for product development, competitive positioning, differentiation of new products/features thru market analysis, customer interactions, technology trends, and forging of strategic partnerships.

• Contributed to Major architectural decisions on over all stack - platform infra, services to be developed, third-party s/w integrations to be picked, while maintaining balance between TTM, long term viability & extensibility of the product
• Developed Cynepia's Insights Platform that enables self service analytics for enterprise customers(data analysts & business users) thru Data Ingestion, Cleaning, Modeling, Analytics, Visualization, Integration of work flows
• Driven Customer Adoption by putting together use cases such as - Analytics driven Business Process Automation and Market Campaign Analytics that has a direct impact of cost reduction and sales growth respectively

• Led Control plane development effort for flagship NCS4000 optical router. Defined Functional spec based on MRD, played a key role in the definition of s/w architecture and led the delivery of functionality.
• Led n/w solution development & delivery of features for Orange's Residential WiFi to support open & secure sessions with improved scale, session roaming & QoS.
• Led the strategic Identity Based Services project for NTT. Responsible for defining & delivering of features on ASR1K, integrating with Cisco's n/w products for the overall solution

• Built two s/w development teams of 20 engineers to transition BNG technology on 2 different platforms(ASR1K & ASR9k) & Operating Systems w/o disrupting ongoing releases & customer commitments
• Led strategic projects on SP-WiFi, SDN, Mobile Backhaul. Driven customer engagement not only thru feature development, but also worked with them to define right n/w architecture. These projects generated new revenue streams in existing deployments
• Release lead from Network O/S team in the planning and ensuring cadence & quality of release thru execution
• Responsible for L1/L2 protocol stack on IOS-XR. Delivered 60% resource efficiency thru re-engineering of the s/w in sustenance projects which allowed the team to work on strategic projects
• Played key role in architecture and delivery of differentiating features like Circuit Emulation, Mobile Gateway Service Integration on ASR9K platform-this architecture enables ASR9K to host 3rd party software in a virtualized environment

• Led Design and Development of control plane & Data Plane for IP/MPLS transport solution for Lucent's PSAX and USLC service blade built on CBX3500 ATM switch.
• Key contributor for the development of Routing and Signaling plane components - MPLS-TE, L2VPN, IP Interface Manager, VRF Manager and integration with protocol stacks. Designed & Implemented data plane on IXP28000

• Developed GSM protocol software and UT simulators
• Developed kernel software for Custom H/W accelerator boards with SIMD and Distributed Compute architectures for Image Processing apps