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Sriram Hota

Sriram Hota

Global Leader - Data & Cloud Platform Engineering
Bangalore

Summary

Strength lies in App & Data Architecture | Cloud | Leadership | Teams, Product & Platform building.

Passionate about : People, technology , process & digital product.

Leadership Mantra: Create more leaders.

Performs Best: in adverse situations & challenging environments

Have applied most of the leadership stint in building and leading high impact teams, driving architecture blueprints & success, digital transformation at scale in various industry leaders in the world in diversified domains that includes retail, supply chain , shipping & logistics ,Internet & gaming industry.

In 22+ years of career , have led various data strategy, modernized & built next generation data systems ; few on cloud while managing the legacies. Keen on setting up capabilities and foundations for data products/platforms from scratch in global context. Passionate about creating best and relevant engineering hygiene and enablers to ensure agility of the engineering organizations.

An ardent believer of listening to people, managing their conflicts, empowering & enabling them , overall manage their growth.

Live with mother , wife and a teenage son ; have a great ear & love for music & sports.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Director - Data & Analytics

General Electric
Bangalore
04.2020 - Current

Data Platform hardening and modernization on cloud/AWS native Services to support operational financial data system of peta byte scale.

  • Building server less and intelligent data processing & ML platform.
  • Defined and instituted platform architecture and data engineering practices.
  • Driving distributed &business integrated data security product, Saved 0.5 m$ by rolling out in-house data security and governance system and replacing vendor product in 2020
  • Working towards lowering TCO to the tune of 5 m$ . Migrating from mpp to spark, traditional to open source & distributed architecture based etls & pipe lines . 2021/22
  • Site leadership for Ge-FDL

Head of Data Engineering

SpiceJet Limited
Bangalore
12.2019 - 04.2020

Setting up data capabilities , strategy and related functions.

  • Driving data architecture & setting up the platform
  • Formulated data sourcing strategy with business verticals and different engineering leaders

Sr Director Engineering

Startup-Agriculture digitization
Bangalore
07.2019 - 12.2019
  • Solving seed to field , field to warehouse, warehouse to store, store to consumers problems through technology

General Manager , Data & Platform Engineering

A.P. Moller - Maersk
Bangalore
01.2018 - 07.2019

Setting up teams and data functions from the scratch for transformation success , setting up global data strategy. Driving data democracy, building data platform on cloud/Azure , DevOps as a service , DaaS, IaaS.

  • Building cloud/azure based e2e DevOps integrated data platform to enable all business aligned engineering functions along with the data foundation.
  • Ensuring best and relevant engineering hygiene to support agility of the engineering organizations.
  • Course correcting the legacy platforms.
  • Aligning engineering and product leaders with Agile philosophy and engineering best practices.
  • Managing engagements with various engineering leaders and business stake holders as a consumer of the platform.
  • Solving multi m$ business problems through data and predictions/recommendation.
  • Business, people, Customer experience & Data platform transformation.

Senior Engineering Manager

247.ai
Bangalore
08.2014 - 12.2017

low latency data, data at scale, multi tenant processing , reconciliation and publishing systems. spark, kafka , olap

• horizontally scale-able OLAP open sourced based solution.
• Scale out the data processing layer.
• Segregating and building low latency streaming and reconciled data pipelines.
• Scalable data publishing system.
• Adding anomaly detection and alerting to the platform.
• Engaged to create product features funnel, scrum model refinement and establish visible and transparent executions.
• Establishing and enriching process around production operation,escalations, site reliability , security, capacity addition,on-boarding , L3 engagement.

Principal Engineer

Yahoo!
Bangalore
11.2010 - 08.2014

MDM, BI on mobile, self serve reporting, cohort , segmentation, audience engagement & retention metrics, Hadoop, pig, shark, Oracle,java, Microstrategy, architecture for scale.

• Building of self-serving reporting and visualizations on usage pattern, audience engagement, and retention behavior analytics for all Yahoo web sites on mobile devices.
• Building of engagement data and segmentation and cohort metrics for Yahoo’s broadband Partners.
• Leading architecture and moving some key products on to hadoop infrastructure.
• Offering business intelligence on mobile device.
• Experimentation, A/B analytics to put data science into hypothesis of a user experience design.
• Transitioning and tuning Media properties data system, click-stream analysis for engagement insight and content consumption pattern.
• Integration of Desktop and Mobile data on audience/user side.
• Driven continuous delivery/Integration adoption initiatives.

Senior Team Lead

SUPERVALU
Bangalore
03.2008 - 10.2010
  • Data engineering/BI/Teradata/Architecture/Analytics/trickle, queuing system/data mining/Microstrategy/java
  • Teradata,FLOAD , BTEQ, MLOAD, JMS,ETL

Senior Data Engineer

Ivy Comptech
Hyderabad
05.2006 - 12.2007

Data architecture and engineering, etl, Teradata, Requirement analysis, Game analytics, player value management , predictive analytics.

Senior Engineer

computer science corporation
Hyderabad
10.2005 - 02.2006

Data engineering, Teradata, Microstrategy.

Senior Engineer

Euclid Inc
Hyderabad
06.2002 - 09.2005

java, jsp, struts, mvc, servlet, xml processing, caching framework, microstrategy

Senior Engineer

Information technology India limited
New Delhi
01.2000 - 05.2002

Java, Applet, JSP, Servlet, Tomcat,Oracle

Education

BTech - Electronics , Communication, Computers

Institute of Electronics And Telecommunication Eng, New Delhi, India
06.1991 - 12.1996

Skills

Data platforms , Data Engineering & Strategy

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Timeline

Senior Director - Data & Analytics - General Electric
04.2020 - Current
Head of Data Engineering - SpiceJet Limited
12.2019 - 04.2020
Sr Director Engineering - Startup-Agriculture digitization
07.2019 - 12.2019
General Manager , Data & Platform Engineering - A.P. Moller - Maersk
01.2018 - 07.2019
Senior Engineering Manager - 247.ai
08.2014 - 12.2017
Principal Engineer - Yahoo!
11.2010 - 08.2014
Senior Team Lead - SUPERVALU
03.2008 - 10.2010
Senior Data Engineer - Ivy Comptech
05.2006 - 12.2007
Senior Engineer - computer science corporation
10.2005 - 02.2006
Senior Engineer - Euclid Inc
06.2002 - 09.2005
Senior Engineer - Information technology India limited
01.2000 - 05.2002
Institute of Electronics And Telecommunication Eng - BTech, Electronics , Communication, Computers
06.1991 - 12.1996
Sriram HotaGlobal Leader - Data & Cloud Platform Engineering