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Clients Served over 25+ years
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Anil Chitreddy

Anil Chitreddy

Nashville,TN

Summary

Accomplished Senior Principal Data & AI Consultant with over 27+ years of experience architecting, designing, and implementing large-scale data and AI-driven solutions across diverse industries. Recognized for driving transformative business outcomes by leveraging cutting-edge technologies, including AI, Machine Learning, Data Mesh, Cloud Data Platforms, Generative AI, and MLOps. Adept at leading cross-functional teams and providing strategic vision to align data initiatives with organizational goals, fostering data-driven cultures, and delivering measurable ROI.

Proven track record in advising Fortune 500 companies and startups on end-to-end AI and data strategies, from data governance and infrastructure design to advanced analytics and AI model deployment. Expertise spans a wide range of industries, including Heavy Equipment Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Aviation, Healthcare, Insurance, CPG, Event Management etc., with a strong focus on scalable solutions, compliance with data privacy regulations, and ethical AI practices. Skilled at building teams and strategy who can translate complex technical concepts into actionable insights for stakeholders and ensuring seamless integration of data systems to accelerate decision-making and innovation.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification

Work History

Directory, Enterprise Data, BI Analytics & AI Platform Architect & Innovation

PepsiCo
05.2022 - Current
  • Working as Technology Director for Enterprise Data and Analytics platform Architecture & Innovation leading a team of architects in developing and own repeatable platform patterns working with enterprise architect team to expedite the platform engineering and enablement activities
  • Provided best practices and guidance principles in utilizing various latest cloud-based tools and technologies for effective delivery on business initiatives
  • Consistently provided insights about latest industry trends in Data ecosystem
  • Provided technical leadership guidance to team in delivering conceptual, logical architectures leading towards consumable physical architecture towards various business initiatives achieving about 30% cost reduction
  • Currently working as Director, Global Enterprise Data & AI Platform Architecture & Innovation, leading the team in assisting the global sector stakeholders in implementing Modern Data warehouse, Data Lakehouse based Analytics Applications using Modern cloud-based Azure Data Platform
  • Managed a team of Cloud Data Architects, Data Engineers & Data Analysts
  • Collaborated with the Global Enterprise Architecture team in defining and building the corporate North-Star Reference Architecture model for Data & AI platform, always aiming to improve performance by 25% and up.
  • Developed and enforced guiding principles and guardrails of North-Star Ref architecture model
  • Instrumental in building the Cloud Data & BI Analytics platform CoE with well-defined best patterns and practices
  • Implemented the overall cloud Data & BI Analytics platform observability using third party tools for optimal performance and minimal cloud services cost by identifying the issues proactively.

Principal Architect, MS Azure Data Platform

10 Cube Inc
10.2010 - 04.2022
  • Implemented cloud based MPP, Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure Synapse) and Snowflake towards migrating the existing on-Prem Data Warehouse in Microsoft APS MPP appliance
  • Delivered performance-enhancing recommendations on MS Azure Synapse Analytics data warehouse including partitioning schemes, sorted columnar indexes, and the use of materialized views
  • Provided expert level SQL technical consulting advice and best practices to the team and expert level business requirements analyzing skills working in tandem with Product owner, Business Users and stakeholders to build the Date Warehouse solutions
  • Developed data integration processes as part of end-to-end solutions including data ingestion and processing (ETL/ELT) with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages, Azure Data Factory (ADF v2) pipelines, and SQL Server T-SQL stored procedures
  • Created Source-Target architecture diagrams and led architecture meetings including server topologies and hardware requirements to support multiple environments (Prod/Stage/Test/Dev) for both Azure and On-Premises environments
  • Developed new cloud data platform and data pipelines by installing the data ingestion tools and configuring
  • Implemented bulk loading using COPY and continuous stream loading using SnowPipe
  • Worked on cloud and hybrid architectures including Azure security, configuring and scaling resources, role-based access controls (RBAC), and networking technologies
  • Provided Data Platform to Data Science team and worked very closely with Enterprise Architects, application Architects as well as developers
  • Provides technical guidelines and inculcated proven best practices to adhere and achieve stable environment
  • Involved with technical team members in developing complex queries and stored procedures in SQL based on the coding guidelines and best practices
  • Managed investigating, identifying RCA and fixing the data issues in production system
  • Oversaw maintaining source control (TFS) and deployments from Dev à QA à Prod with proper change control process
  • And documenting the changes in every stay/step.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications Engineer

SK University, INDIA
Kurnool
05.1997

Skills

  • Enterprise Data & AI Technology Leader : Guiding organizations through the complexities of modern data architectures and AI-driven transformations, for significant business value
  • Strategic Data Estate Planning: Ability to develop long-term strategies for leveraging data, AI, and emerging technologies to drive business value
  • Business Stakeholder Alignment: Ensuring data and AI initiatives are aligned with overall business objectives and KPIs
  • Cross-functional Leadership: Leading diverse teams across data science, AI, IT, and business units, fostering collaboration between departments
  • Innovation Leadership: Encouraging and fostering a culture of innovation, staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies
  • Data Governance & Compliance: Establishing frameworks for data governance, ensuring compliance with global regulations (eg, GDPR, CCPA)
  • Data Quality Management: Implementing practices to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability across organization
  • Metadata Management: Ensuring effective cataloging and tagging of enterprise data for better discoverability and usage
  • AI/ML Frameworks: Expertise in AI and Machine Learning frameworks (eg, TensorFlow, PyTorch, SciKit-learn) and their application to solving business challenges
  • AI Strategy: Formulating and implementing AI strategies, including development of AI models for automation, prediction, and optimization
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision: Leveraging advanced AI techniques like NLP and computer vision to solve specific business problems
  • Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs): Implementing and leveraging LLMs and generative AI for applications such as content creation, virtual assistants, and recommendation systems
  • MLOps/DLOps: Establishing Machine Learning and Deep Learning Operations frameworks to streamline model development lifecycle, ensuring robust deployment, monitoring, and management

Clients Served over 25+ years

Below is the list of top 10 companies work over the span of 25+ years

PepsiCo Global

United Airlines

HCA

Delloitte.

Johnson Controls

Arthur J Gallager

Alliance Of Chicago

PSAV

COMCAST

John Deere

Caterpillar

Mitsubishi

Kawasaki

Rolls Royce

Kubota

FICOH, First Insurance Company of Hawaii

Affinity Corp

Certification

  • Cloudera Certified Administration for Apache Hadoop (CCAH/CHD4)
  • HortonWorks Certified Administration for Apache Hadoop
  • MS Certified SQL Server 2012 Data Warehouse implementation
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
  • Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
  • MPC in VB/VC++/VB.Net

Technicalcredentials

My core technologies, tools, frameworks, and methodologies utilized to ensure scalability, performance, security, and innovative AI-driven insights. Below is a comprehensive list of technical credentials:

  • Data Architecture & Infrastructure

Data Mesh & Data Fabrics: Expertise in designing decentralized architectures (Data Mesh) for scalable and domain-oriented data management, ensuring data as a product.

  • Cloud Data Platforms:

Microsoft Azure: SaaS based Fabric Data Platform, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Data Factory.

Amazon Web Services (AWS): Redshift, S3, Athena, Glue, EMR, and SageMaker.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP): BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI.

Snowflake: Cloud Data Platform for real-time analytics and data sharing, SnowPipe, SnowSQL, SnowPark

Databricks: Unified Data Analytics Platform built on Apache Spark for AI and data engineering, Unity Catalog.

Massive Parallel Processing (MPP): Expertise in MPP databases (e.g., Azure Synapse Analytics, Fabric Lakehouse, Fabric Warehouse, Teradata, Netezza, Exadata, Redshift, BigQuery, ) for high-performance analytics.

Serverless Architectures: Experience with serverless solutions for highly scalable and cost-efficient data and AI workloads (e.g., AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions).

  • Data Engineering & Integration

ETL/ELT Tools:

Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue: Workflow orchestration and data pipeline automation.

Talend, Informatica, Fivetran: Data integration tools for efficient ETL/ELT processes.

Stream Processing:

Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, AWS Kinesis: Real-time stream processing for event-driven architectures.

Data Lake Architecture: Implementation of enterprise-scale data lakes using technologies like AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Hadoop for unstructured and semi-structured data storage.

  • Data Governance & Compliance

Data Governance Frameworks: Establishing enterprise-wide governance frameworks with a focus on data stewardship, data lineage, and metadata management using tools like Collibra, Alation, or Informatica.

Compliance: Ensuring platforms comply with regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and other data privacy laws.

Data Quality Management: Tools like Talend Data Quality and Ataccama to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data.

  • AI, Machine Learning, and Advanced Analytics

           AI/ML Frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn: Expertise in building, training, and deploying AI and machine learning models.

           Hugging Face Transformers: Working with state-of-the-art pre-trained models (e.g., BERT, GPT) for NLP applications.

           Generative AI & LLMs

           Implementing Generative AI models (GANs, Transformers) and Large Language Models (LLMs) for applications like text generation, content creation, and personalized experiences.

           Natural Language Processing (NLP): Expertise in developing NLP-based solutions using spaCy, NLTK, and Transformer models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, text summarization, and chatbots.

          Computer Vision: Leveraging models like ResNet, YOLO, or EfficientNet for image recognition, object detection, and facial recognition.

  • MLOps & DataOps

MLOps Platforms:

KubeFlow, MLflow, Seldon: Tools for orchestrating machine learning workflows, model deployment, and monitoring.

Model Lifecycle Management: Implementing automated pipelines for model training, testing, versioning, and deployment, including CI/CD for models using tools like Jenkins or GitLab.

DataOps Tools: Expertise in DataOps practices for automating data pipelines, continuous integration, and testing of data models (e.g., Dagster, Apache Nifi).

  • Big Data Technologies

Apache Hadoop Ecosystem: Hadoop, Hive, HBase, and Pig for batch processing and distributed storage of large data sets.

Apache Spark: Proficiency in Spark for distributed data processing, supporting both batch and real-time analytics.

NoSQL Databases: Expertise in working with NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB, Cassandra, and DynamoDB for handling semi-structured and unstructured data.

  • Cloud-Native Data Solutions

Containerization & Orchestration:

Kubernetes: Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration of AI and data workloads.

Docker: Proficiency in Docker for packaging, deploying, and managing applications.

Serverless Data Processing:

AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions: Implementing serverless architectures for event-driven data processing.

  • Quantum Computing (Emerging Technologies)

Quantum Algorithms & Frameworks: Experience with early-stage quantum computing platforms like IBM Qiskit, Microsoft Azure Quantum, and Google’s Quantum AI for solving complex optimization and machine learning problems.

  • Data Analytics & BI Tools

Data Visualization:

- Tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Qlik for translating data into business insights.

Self-service BI: Enabling business users with self-service analytics platforms for democratizing data access across the organization.

  • DevOps & Automation for Data Platforms

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Using tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning.

CI/CD for Data Pipelines: Setting up continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI for automating data pipeline testing and deployment.

  • Monitoring & Logging:

- Tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for monitoring data platforms and ensuring system reliability and performance.

  • Security & Privacy

Data Encryption & Masking: Implementing encryption techniques (AES, TLS/SSL) and data masking for secure data storage and transfer.

Identity and Access Management (IAM): Proficiency in setting up secure access controls and policies using AWS IAM, Azure Active Directory, or Google Cloud IAM.

Vulnerability Management: Implementing regular security audits and monitoring through tools like AWS GuardDuty, Azure Security Center, or GCP Security Command Center.

Motorcycle Ride, Music, Dance

Machine, Music and Dance is the rhythm of my life ...

Timeline

Directory, Enterprise Data, BI Analytics & AI Platform Architect & Innovation

PepsiCo
05.2022 - Current

Principal Architect, MS Azure Data Platform

10 Cube Inc
10.2010 - 04.2022

Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications Engineer

SK University, INDIA
Anil Chitreddy