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Jimit Vyas

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Jimit Vyas

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Key Accomplishments

· Fortune 50 & Enterprise Leadership: Senior Data & AI Architect with 20+ years delivering Lakehouse, AI, and modernization programs for ABInBev, Kroger, Cigna, Cisco, EY, IPG, IBM, BMS, Johnson & Johnson, and Koch Industries.

· Databricks & GenAI Transformation: Scaled Databricks Lakehouse, streaming, RAG, and agentic AI platforms across industries—reducing costs up to 30% and improving performance 40%+ while enabling production-grade AI adoption.

· Revenue & Practice Growth: Drove $20M+ annual services revenue through presales strategy, RFP leadership, multi-million program wins, and strategic account expansion.

· Enterprise-Scale Delivery: Led $15M+ global implementations and managed $2M+ annual platform budgets across Databricks, Fabric, Snowflake, AWS, and Azure ecosystems.

· AI & Data Strategy Leadership: Built reusable frameworks for data mesh, data products, AI governance, clean rooms, and DataOps—accelerating time-to-value and enabling governed self-service analytics.

· Operational Excellence: Improved productivity up to 50% through self-service BI, streaming, automation, and AI-driven insights; consistently achieved 97%+ client satisfaction.

· Industry Recognition: Featured speaker with Cisco at Databricks Summit; Kroger case study spotlight; multiple top performer and workplace excellence recognitions.

· Entrepreneurship & Social Impact: Former technology entrepreneur and vCIO; lead U.S. initiatives for “Yuva Unstoppable,” supporting 600K+ underprivileged children with global institutional partners.

Overview

23
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

VALENCE AI

Chief Solutions Architect & Advisor - Data & AI (Independent consultant)
02.2026 - Current

Job overview

  • Engaged in an interim leadership capacity to drive an AI-native transformation roadmap, evolving a financial advisory platform into an AI-augmented growth engine across engagement, advisory, and revenue intelligence.
  • Facilitating cross-functional AI strategy workshops (Engagement, Advisory, Growth, Governance) to define use cases, target KPIs, and phased roadmap from concept → MVP → scaled deployment.
  • Designing target-state architecture leveraging Databricks Lakehouse (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, Mosaic AI) with LLM/RAG frameworks to operationalize AI-driven advisory and growth intelligence.
  • Architecting Conversational AI and Advisory Copilot MVPs to reduce drop-offs, automate financial plan generation, and improve advisor productivity.
  • Establishing AI governance, model monitoring, and compliance guardrails while defining scalable data foundation integrating CRM, portfolio, and financial data sources.

Kforce

Sr Principal Consultant / Practice Leader - Data & AI
05.2024 - 12.2025

Job overview

  • Senior Principal and Practice Leader driving enterprise-scale Lakehouse, AI, and modernization programs across retail, healthcare, financial services, and technology clients.
  • Led Databricks-first transformations while expanding Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake capabilities, combining architecture leadership with revenue growth, delivery governance, and AI innovation.
  • Architected large-scale Databricks & AI driven Lakehouse platforms (Delta Lake, DLT, Unity Catalog, MLflow, Mosaic AI) across Retail, Financial Services, and Hadoop modernization programs, implementing Medallion architectures, streaming ingestion, governance, and AI-ready data products.
  • Led cold-chain IoT, Data & AI modernization at Kroger, building a streaming-first Azure Databricks platform integrating telemetry, logistics, and supplier domains; productionized ML models and Agentic AI workflows while improving performance 40% and reducing costs 28%.
  • Designed enterprise Agentic AI platform for a global technology firm (Cisco-scale) supporting 10K-25K users and 50K-150K daily interactions; implemented supervisor-led multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph), tool-first RAG strategy, and full AgentOps observability while reducing LLM cost 30-50%.
  • Modernized healthcare analytics at Empower Health using Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse, migrating SQL/SSIS to Bronze/Silver/Gold architecture, automating 75+ pipelines, consolidating semantic models, enabling geospatial intelligence, and supporting AI use cases across 100GB+ governed datasets.
  • Led Snowflake modernization for Community Health Plan Washington, migrating legacy SQL EDW to Snowflake on Azure; implemented warehouse isolation, Time Travel, RBAC, ELT automation, and cost optimization, improving performance and reducing defects 75%.
  • Directed Hadoop-to-Databricks Lakehouse migration at Mastercard, modernizing Hive/Impala workloads to Delta architecture with scalable compute, governance, and ML-ready data pipelines.
  • Designed Databricks-powered Clean Room framework for Ulta Beauty, enabling secure retail media collaboration with IPG agencies using governed data sharing, privacy controls, and marketing attribution analytics.
  • Drove strategic Databricks partnership initiatives, selected to represent Kroger at the Databricks Data & AI Summit where the Kroger transformation case study was featured; nominated as a speaker to co-host with Cisco leadership on the enterprise Agentic AI journey.
  • Contributed to $20M+ annual services revenue by leading RFP responses, proposals, SOWs, architecture frameworks, accelerators, and account expansion strategies - opening and scaling strategic accounts including Kroger, Cisco, Mastercard, and Empower Health.

Daugherty Business Solutions

Sr Principal / Solutions Leader - Data & Analytics
03.2021 - 05.2024

Job overview

  • As a Senior Principal and Solutions Leader, I architect enterprise-scale Databricks Lakehouse and GenAI platforms for Fortune 500 clients, combining executive advisory, presales strategy, and hands-on architecture leadership.
  • I lead the Generative AI competency, standardizing Databricks-first frameworks (Lakehouse + RAG + Agentic AI) to accelerate scalable, production-grade AI adoption across industries.
  • Led a multi-year transformation for ABInBev, securing a 5-year modernization initiative to transition legacy systems into a governed Azure Databricks Lakehouse (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) supporting real-time analytics and AI-driven operations.
  • Architected a streaming-first Databricks solution for real-time PLC telemetry using Structured Streaming, Auto Loader, and Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) architecture, reducing operational downtime and enabling near real-time financial and operational optimization.
  • Engaged in a thought leadership of GenAI and RAG architectures on Databricks, leveraging Vector Search, Foundation Models, MLflow lifecycle management, and secure Unity Catalog governance to deploy scalable copilots and agentic AI workflows.
  • Led enterprise data platform strategy for Fortune 50 clients, implementing DataOps, data products, and domain-oriented data mesh patterns on Databricks, improving time-to-value and enabling governed self-service analytics.
  • Directed cross-cloud architectures leveraging AWS + Databricks + Snowflake, designing scalable Lakehouse and recommendation engine platforms supporting ML-driven personalization and next-best-action use cases for Cigna.
  • Led Snowflake-based modernization and data mesh initiatives, implementing workload isolation (virtual warehouses), secure data sharing, RBAC, and federated governance models for regulated finance and healthcare domains at Koch Industries.
  • Part of NYA leadership group and nominated to represent the firm in national 'Top Workplaces USA' recognition; recipient of regional Employee of the Year award.
  • Featured speaker at BDPA series and recurring executive roundtables, presenting on Databricks Lakehouse modernization, Generative AI evolution, and enterprise data governance strategy; built reusable accelerators in data quality, governance, secure data sharing, and self-service analytics adopted across major clients.

Mavinminds Group LLC

Director of Technology & Solutions Architect (Teamlogic IT)
04.2019 - 03.2021

Job overview

  • Served as Director & Partner operating the nation's #1 technology franchise, acting as a Virtual CIO for SMBs across Healthcare, Legal, Financial, Non-Profit, and Education sectors.
  • Led enterprise architecture, cloud modernization, cybersecurity governance, BI/analytics initiatives, and strategic growth programs leveraging SAP HANA, Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, Tableau, SAP Analytics Cloud, and mobility platforms while driving business transformation and operational excellence.

Interpublic Group (Big 4 Advertising)

Global BI Manager & Architect
10.2013 - 03.2019

Job overview

  • Led global BI platform strategy, governance, and delivery across US and APAC, overseeing cross-functional teams (10-15) and driving enterprise analytics, advanced AI models, SAP BPC planning, budgeting, and performance management.
  • Owned stakeholder alignment, SOX-compliant data governance, cybersecurity coordination with CISO, procurement/SOW management, and financial oversight to support consumer advertising, digital marketing, and media operations at scale.

Ernst & Young (Big4 Accounting)

Manager - Enterprise Intelligence
07.2010 - 09.2013

Job overview

  • As Advisory services manager of one of the Big 4 consulting firms, helped global companies develop data & analytics model to execute business strategy.
  • Manage & architect global financial and supply chain transformation projects involving in IT strategy, data model design & delivery.
  • Provide BI solutions in the areas of Finance, Supply chain, demand planning including Inventory Management, MRP Forecast, Intercompany Profit elimination, Regulatory reporting, Tax and Product Costing.

Independent Consulting

SAP BI Solutions Architect
10.2006 - 04.2010

Job overview

  • As a part of Independent consulting supported several clients from manufacturing, pharmaceutical, aviation, consumer goods & electronics.
  • Lead and Manage BI Projects for Supply Chain Global implementation involving Inventory, Production, Finance and Order to Cash (SD).
  • Proposing the scope of BI projects by conducting workshops, analyzing and modeling.

SKAPS Industries

IT Analyst
06.2003 - 07.2006

Job overview

  • As logistics manager in SKAPS handled inventory & logistics in the warehouse along with purchase orders.
  • Responsible to maintain network & firewall related issues as an IT analyst.
  • Gathered business requirements & built analytical reports.

Education

Swinburne University of Technology
Australia

Master of I.T from Computer Science

UVPCE College of Engineering
India

Bachelor of I.T from Computer Science

Skills

  • Databricks
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Cloud (Azure, AWS & GCP)
  • Snowflake
  • Streaming (Spark)
  • Data mesh/Product strategy
  • Langchain/Langraph/Langsmith
  • Crew AI/Autogen
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • Programming (SQL, Python, PySpark)
  • MCP
  • Data science - AI/ML solutions
  • BI (Power BI, Tableau)
  • SAP HANA
  • CI/CD
  • Azure DevOps
  • JIRA
  • DevOps(JIRA, Azure DevOps)
  • Compliance (PII, Data masking)
  • AI & Data Governance
  • Data Virtualization
  • Agile & Scrum methodology
  • Data Modeling(Erwin)

Accomplishments

  • Featured Speaker Cohosting with Cisco
  • USA Today's Top Workplaces Award- Daugherty Business Solutions
  • Featured case study Databricks Kroger at Data & AI Summit
  • Small team of the year - Ohio Kroger Databricks
  • Marquis Who's Who Leadership Recognition
  • NJ Biz Best places to work - Daugherty Business Solutions NYA
  • Speaker at BDPA
  • Panel Discussion - Daugherty Tech Roundtable
  • NYA Top performer - Team Spirit Award - Daugherty Business Solutions
  • Fortune 50 & Enterprise Leadership: Senior Data & AI Architect with 20+ years delivering Lakehouse, AI, and modernization programs for ABInBev, Kroger, Cigna, Cisco, EY, IPG, IBM, BMS, Johnson & Johnson, and Koch Industries.
  • Databricks & GenAI Transformation: Scaled Databricks Lakehouse, streaming, RAG, and agentic AI platforms across industries-reducing costs up to 30% and improving performance 40%+ while enabling production-grade AI adoption.
  • Revenue & Practice Growth: Drove $20M+ annual services revenue through presales strategy, RFP leadership, multimillion program wins, and strategic account expansion.
  • Enterprise-Scale Delivery: Led $15M+ global implementations and managed $2M+ annual platform budgets across Databricks, Fabric, Snowflake, AWS, and Azure ecosystems.
  • AI & Data Strategy Leadership: Built reusable frameworks for data mesh, data products, AI governance, clean rooms, and DataOps-accelerating time-to-value and enabling governed self-service analytics.
  • Operational Excellence: Improved productivity up to 50% through self-service BI, streaming, automation, and AI-driven insights; consistently achieved 97%+ client satisfaction.
  • Industry Recognition: Featured speaker with Cisco at Databricks Summit; Kroger case study spotlight; multiple top performer and workplace excellence recognitions.
  • Entrepreneurship & Social Impact: Former technology entrepreneur and vCIO; lead U.S. initiatives for 'Yuva Unstoppable,' supporting 600K+ underprivileged children with global institutional partners.

Certification

  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional - Databricks
  • Agentic AI Engineer - Edureka
  • Partner training - Industry leadership in action - Databricks
  • Lakehouse fundamentals - Databricks
  • Hands on essentials - Data Warehouse - Snowflake
  • Databricks & AI (Mosaic AI framework) - Udemy (Databricks)
  • Microsoft Fabric Data & Gen AI - Udemy (Fabric)
  • Snowflake end to end engineer - Udemy (Snowflake)
  • Certified Safe practitioner - SAFe
  • Certified in SAP ERPS - Enterprise Resource Planning System
  • Certified in SAP HANA Application Associate
  • Certified in Linux & Advance Administration

Technology And Methodology

  • Databricks
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Cloud (Azure, AWS & GCP)
  • Snowflake
  • Streaming (Spark)
  • Data mesh/Product strategy
  • Langchain/Langraph/Langsmith
  • Crew AI/Autogen
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • Programming (SQL, Python, PySpark)
  • MCP
  • Data science - AI/ML solutions
  • BI (Power BI, Tableau)
  • SAP HANA
  • CI/CD, Azure DevOps, JIRA
  • DevOps(JIRA, Azure DevOps)
  • Compliance (PII, Data masking)
  • AI & Data Governance
  • Data Virtualization
  • Agile & Scrum methodology
  • Data Modeling(Erwin)

Timeline

Chief Solutions Architect & Advisor - Data & AI (Independent consultant)

VALENCE AI
02.2026 - Current

Sr Principal Consultant / Practice Leader - Data & AI

Kforce
05.2024 - 12.2025

Sr Principal / Solutions Leader - Data & Analytics

Daugherty Business Solutions
03.2021 - 05.2024

Director of Technology & Solutions Architect (Teamlogic IT)

Mavinminds Group LLC
04.2019 - 03.2021

Global BI Manager & Architect

Interpublic Group (Big 4 Advertising)
10.2013 - 03.2019

Manager - Enterprise Intelligence

Ernst & Young (Big4 Accounting)
07.2010 - 09.2013

SAP BI Solutions Architect

Independent Consulting
10.2006 - 04.2010

IT Analyst

SKAPS Industries
06.2003 - 07.2006

UVPCE College of Engineering

Bachelor of I.T from Computer Science

Swinburne University of Technology

Master of I.T from Computer Science

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