🚀 Engineering Executive | Data & AI/ML Professional | IT Leader | Agile Exponent

📍 Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
📧 Email: [email protected]
🔗 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rajivgangadharan
🌐 Blog: blog.ambadi.net
💼 GitHub: github.com/rajivgangadharan

An Engineering Executive with over 20 years of experience leading IT transformations (including AI/ML and Data.Eng.), engineering excellence, and analytics-driven decision-making across diverse domains like Healthcare, Retail, Industrial, and Banking/Finance.

• Leadership: Proven track record of delivering complex engineering projects and managing large global teams.
• Data & Analytics: Expertise in AI/ML, Generative AI, Graph Analytics, and Advanced Data Solutions.
• Agile Delivery: Skilled in Lean-Agile methodologies, including Scrum, SAFe, XP, DevOps, Kanban.
• Industry 4.0 & IoT: Designed and implemented reference architectures for Industry 4.0.

• Data & AI/ML: Data Analytics, AI/ML, Generative AI, Graph Analytics, Data Products
• Program Management & Strategy: Engineering Strategy, Budgeting, P&L Management
• Software Engineering: Enterprise Architecture, Event-Driven Microservices, Domain-Driven Design
• Cloud & DevOps: Azure, GCP, DataOps/MLOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code
• Regulatory Compliance: SOX, GDPR, Data Governance, Security, Audit & Compliance

• Data Engineering & Analytics: Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Oracle, Azure Synapse, Apache Spark, Kedro, Informatica, PowerBI, Tableau, Looker
• Languages: Python, R, Scala, C/C++
• MLOps & DevOps Tools: MLFlow, Kubeflow, Neptune.ai, Fiddler AI, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana
• Platforms & Cloud: GCP, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean
• Industrial IoT & Manufacturing Analytics: IIoT, Digital Twins, Predictive Maintenance

• 🏆 "Outstanding Leadership" Award - Finastra India Chair, 2020
• 🏆 Bravo Award - Honeywell, for New Product Introduction (NPI) maturity, 2017
• 🏆 Outstanding Contributor Award - IBM, 2014
• 🏆 Bronze Award for Technical Leadership - HP, 2003

• Jira Utility Kit (JUKA): Developer and maintainer of JUKA, a Python utility kit for Scrum Masters working with Atlassian JIRA.
• Agile Program Analytics: Contributed actionable Agile metrics pages inspired by Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability by Daniel Vacanti using R and R Markdown.

• Master of Science (Analytical Chemistry) - The Institute of Science, Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Master of Science (Computer Science) - Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan

• Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP) - PMI
• Certified Kanban Coach (CKC) - IBQMI
• Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I) - Scrum.org

I'm open to collaborations, consulting, and mentorship opportunities. Feel free to reach out to me via email or connect with me on LinkedIn!