ANANTH VANKIPURAM
San Jose,CA
Summary
Strategic and technical leader with 15+ years of experience delivering cloud-based decision support services in manufacturing and healthcare life sciences. Proven expertise in cloud capacity planning and complex technical negotiations, consistently achieving significant performance improvements and cost savings through data-driven decision making. Skilled in building and maintaining strategic partnerships while driving technical excellence in production and manufacturing environments.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Technical Partnership Engineer
DANAHER
01.2021 - Current
- Drove development initiatives to adopt hybrid-cloud strategy resulting in 40% improvement in system performance meeting internal stakeholder requirements while also driving down cloud Op-Ex down by $200,000/Quarter
- Implemented comprehensive cloud-based manufacturing analytics/Decision support system
- Led capacity planning for legacy and NPI product lines and frameworks for contract manufacturers
- Led strategic cross-functional initiatives to initiate and mature KPIs that could then be used to drive companywide manufacturing Quality management efforts
Sr. Technical Systems Lead
ILLUMINA
07.2014 - 12.2020
- Led team of seven engineers in cross-functional technical reviews, implementing systematic analysis and optimization protocols
- Developed supplier engagement strategies resulting in 100% reduction in integration-related issues
- Achieved $400,000 annual cost savings through strategic vendor negotiations and technical optimization
- Architected comprehensive monitoring for large-scale manufacturing quality operations utilizing Azure IoT and Power-BI dashboards
Technical Integration Engineer
AMAZON
08.2011 - 11.2013
- Managed technical relationships with hardware partners, negotiating specifications and integration requirements
- Implemented high-speed data protocols (600MBps throughput) requiring extensive partner collaboration
- Created specifications and KPIs and drove the development with vendors
Education
M.S. - Electrical Engineering
Northern Illinois University
De Kalb, ILSkills
- SQL
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- AWS Redshift
- AWS Cloud
- Azure IoT
- Python
- Pandas
- Plotly
- Streamlit
- Technical specifications
- Executive presentations
- Partner workshop
Augmentedcompetencies
- Commodity Business Planning
- Strategic Supplier Management
Timeline
Staff Technical Partnership Engineer
DANAHER
01.2021 - Current
Sr. Technical Systems Lead
ILLUMINA
07.2014 - 12.2020
Technical Integration Engineer
AMAZON
08.2011 - 11.2013
M.S. - Electrical Engineering
Northern Illinois University
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