Artificial Intelligence has captured the mainstream business mindset
San Francisco Bay Area
@WalmartLabs
Director, AI and Data Science
Adchemy Inc. (ACQUIRED BY WALMART INC)
Principal Engineer
October 2009 to May 2014
Reporting Solutions
April 2007 to October 2009
Adisya Inc. (Plus IBM Global Services, Borders Group, Ross Stores, JC Penney, BestBuy etc.)
Principal Architect
August 1995 to November 2007
Vanavani High School
High School
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Executive MBA
Stanford University
Graduate Certificate (SCPD), Artificial Intelligence
The University of Manchester
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science
College of Engineering, Guindy
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Leading a team of dozens of engineers and data scientists responsible for streamed processing for the Walmart real-time product catalog updates from sellers around the world Built a platform and system for managing machine learning models being used by various services in the pipeline and their periodic re-training Responsible for quality scoring and machine learning algorithms... Leading a team of dozens of engineers and data scientists responsible for streamed processing for the Walmart real-time product catalog updates from sellers around the world Built a platform and system for managing machine learning models being used by various services in the pipeline and their periodic re-training Responsible for quality scoring and machine learning algorithms to support content and image analysis using advanced statistical algorithms using CNN, RNN, LSTM and NLP Responsible for maintaining the analytics database for product catalog data with Apache Spark based analytics and streaming applications Creating customer insights, recommendations and personalization for relationship applications SEM/SEO analysis, clickstream funnel metrics, struggle analysis and bottleneck detection Anomaly detection and outlier analysis for server metrics and environments
What company does Venky Kandaswamy work for?
Venky Kandaswamy works for @WalmartLabs
What is Venky Kandaswamy's role at @WalmartLabs?
Venky Kandaswamy is Director, AI and Data Science
What industry does Venky Kandaswamy work in?
Venky Kandaswamy works in the Higher Education industry.
💼 Past Experience
Venky Kandaswamy has been working as an artificial intelligence and data science engineer at Walmart Labs for the past 4 years. Venky is responsible for building and managing the AI and data science infrastructure for real-time product updates for the Walmart online product catalog, as well as developing and implementing custom parallel query engines for new Adchemy products. Venky also leads a team of dozens of engineers and data scientists responsible for streamed processing for the Walmart real-time product catalog updates from sellers around the world, built a platform and system for managing machine learning models being used by various services in the pipeline and their periodic re-training, and maintains the analytics database for product catalog data with Apache Spark based analytics and streaming applications. Finally, Venky is responsible for creating customer insights, recommendations and personalization for relationship applications, SEM/SEO analysis, clickstream funnel metrics, struggle analysis and bottleneck detection, as well as anomaly detection and outlier analysis for server metrics and environments. Venky is also responsible for developing and implementing automated metadata management tools to add/delete attributes and metrics for business intelligence reporting in MicroStrategy, as well as designing and implementing performance data downloads and synchronization applications for integrating RightMedia data into Adchemy. Venky is also responsible for managing model repositories, review and correlation of data models for the database engineering group, as well as working with the financial applications team to build business intelligence models for Hyperion finance data. In addition, Venky is also responsible for working with the customer data infrastructure team to design and implement real-time business intelligence strategies for high-profile Internet measuring companies. Finally, Venky is responsible for overall management of the team and for leading the architecture and development of projects for this client.
🎓 Education
Venky Kandaswamy has gone through a rigorous education, which has helped him to pursue a successful career in computer science. He obtained a high school education at Vanavani High School in Chennai, India. After leaving school, Venky Kandaswamy started his undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley in the Haas School of Business. He then attended Stanford University and secured a graduate Certificate (SCPD), which he obtained in 2016. Venky Kandaswamy also completed a Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of Manchester in 2019. Venky Kandaswamy's current job readiness is high, and he is confident that he will be able to attainment his career goals. Venky Kandaswamy has completed a rigorous education that has helped him to achieve success in his current career.
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Venky Kandaswamy has a Background in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Commercial Systems. After working in these industries for several years, Venky Kandaswamy decided to take a career change and enter the Field of Artificial Intelligence. Venky Kandaswamy has been working on developing a platform and system for managing machine learning models being used by various services in the pipeline and their periodic re-training for the past few years. Venky Kandaswamy has also been responsible for quality scoring and machine learning algorithms to support content and image analysis using advanced statistical algorithms using CNN, RNN, LSTM and NLP. In addition, Venky Kandaswamy is also responsible for maintaining the analytics database for product catalog data with Apache Spark based analytics and streaming applications.Venky Kandaswamy has a very strong technical background. Venky Kandaswamy has been working with Apache Spark conducting various types of Hadoop-based data processing tasks. Additionally, Venky Kandaswamy has also been working with MicroStrategy, which is a open-source software to manage web pages and user interactions. Venky Kandaswamy has been responsible for designing and implementing custom parallel query engines for new Adchemy products for Keyword and PLA management. With a background in design, development and administration of large-scale business intelligence reporting applications, Venky Kandaswamy was also instrumental in moving the data processing pipeline from a stored procedure based architecture to a Hadoop-based platform. In addition, Venky Kandaswamy is also responsible for creating customer insights, recommendations, and personalization for relationship applications.Kandaswamy’s main expertise lies in SEM/SEO analysis, clickstream funnel metrics, and struggle analysis and bottleneck detection. In addition, Kandaswamy is also very skilled at anomaly detection and outlier analysis for server metrics and environments. Venky Kandaswamy has also been skilled in building and implementing performance data downloading and synchronization applications. With his experience in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Commercial Systems, Kandaswamy has the skills to design, develop, and manage Clickstream data warehouses. Kandaswamy is also skilled in doing complex data analysis, principal engineer at Adchemy Inc. since October 2009 to May 2014, and with Google from April 2007 to October 2009. Additionally, Kandaswamy is skilled in skilful use of the MicroStrategy software and architecture.
Introversion (I), Intuition (N), Thinking (T), Judging (J)
6 year(s), 6 month(s)
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