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LENIN GALI

LENIN GALI

Mountain House,CA

Summary

Experienced Executive: An accomplished Data Engineering, Analytics, AI, ML leader, CIO & CISO. Delivered solid products and platforms over the years to democratize data and increase business adoption. Solid experience in SaaS, consumer products, loyalty, retail, media, gaming, digital transformation, innovation strategy, IT infrastructure & operations, Cyber security & privacy, technology roadmaps, cloud deployment, ERP & SaaS, data centers, enterprise architecture and data management;

Thought Leadership: Proven leader and practitioner of data, speaker, author, and moderator on data, cyber security, AI &ML with emphasis on increasing use, value, and quality of data; Written articles, moderated panels on enterprise AI, trust, risk and privacy, data management, reducing technology debt, improving cyber risk tolerance, democratize the data to drive innovation across business verticals.

Some Accomplishments:

  • Platforms & Products: Delivered secure and large-scale data warehouses, lake houses, data products, and platforms leveraging Snowflake, Hadoop, Datastax, Databricks, and BigQuery on AWS, GCP & Azure.
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: Saved several millions through Cloud and hybrid deployments, multi-year contract negotiations, and migration to and from Data Centers to Cloud. Reduced tech debt, optimized infrastructure, M&A integrations primarily data and infrastructure is at the center of it.
  • Global Organizations & Teams: Established budget structure accountability for IT, Security, Data Infrastructure, Data Platforms, Enterprise PMO, and Enterprise Applications. Enabled teams for high achievements, and accountability, exceeding both personal and business goals.
  • Enterprise Applications: Directed global deployment and integration of enterprise applications. Led Workday expansion, Salesforce migrations, Okta, Slack, Box, Pandemic remote work, zoom adoption, NetSuite expansion in EU, Anaplan deployment, SAP Concur, and integrations with product platforms.
  • Analytics & Insights: Led marketing, product, and customer analytics initiatives across retail, media, and gaming verticals, leveraging complex business logic, global teams, and modern data stacks using solid data organization, business intelligence skills, and machine learning techniques.
  • Digital Transformation: During the Pandemic, as an SVP of Data Engineering, CIO and CISO worked closely with executive and leadership teams across the organization to oversee digital transformation. Created 1500+ home offices worldwide and connected seamlessly with productivity and collaboration tools to achieve 30% more productivity than usual.
  • Cyber Security & Privacy: Developed strong Security, Privacy Controls, and Enterprise Security policies in line with business requirements. cyber insurance negotiations, 10K reporting, regulatory & data governance, compliance, SOX, CCPA, GDPR, SOC2 global programs.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Chief Business Development Officer

Flodata.io
Milpitas, CA
08.2023 - Current
  • Developed product and platform strategy in collaboration with the CTO;
  • Developed the GTM Plan and refined the product market fit;
  • Developed and executed hiring and product training program;
  • Created security policies, SOC2, and Cloud security posture in collaboration with the engineering and third-party teams.
  • Deployed HubSpot and vendor contract templates
  • Defied revenue and partnership models
  • Developed roadmaps and budgets
  • Developed fundraising strategy and pitch deck.
  • Developed IT, product deployment, and security roadmap

CIO, CISO, Data & Engineering Advisor

GIT1K (A Community of CxOs & Startup Founders)
San Francisco, CA
2022.05 - Current
  • As an investor, advisor, and practitioner, I work with startup founders, serial entrepreneurs, and VCs in Data Management, Data Ops, Business Intelligence, Deep tech, AI / ML, Cyber Security, IT-Infrastructure, Enterprise SaaS, Cloud, DevOps, and DevSecOps.
  • I engage with 250+ CxOs, Enterprise executives, and Leaders from Startups to Fortune 1000 companies to dig deep into the problems and trends being addressed in their ecosystems. I help build better products, great teams, and fantastic culture.
  • I join startup teams as a consultant to develop GTM, assist in SOC2 certification, Security practices & policies, and Engineering and Product development to establish the structure, execute as a team member, hire talent, and scale the team.
  • Some of the recent startups in which I am involved. rapidfort.com;balkan.id;privado.ai;.observo.ai;storytell.ai;Private-ai.com;motherduck.com;getsift.ai;getmiles.com; cloudeagle.ai;invigrid.com;honeydew.ai;flodata.io; blinkpad.com and more

CIO, CISO & SVP Data Engineering

Quotient
Mountain View, CA
01.2017 - 05.2022
  • Quotient Technology, Inc was a $500M public company with 1500+ employees globally focus on omni-channel digital mar-tech and ad-tech
  • Platforms support retailers, advertisers and shoppers through loyalty programs, content, advertisements, sponsored products, and coupons
  • CIO, CISO, SVP of Engineering (2021-2022): Managed team of 100+ employees and while directing Cloud-based real-time SaaS analytics, and decision-making products’ support across UK, India, and U.S
  • Management: Built high performing global teams; restructured for growth; secured buy-in for IT & Security programs from executive team and Board of Directors. Grew the team from 20 to 50 over 3 years
  • Leadership: Established leadership structure with Centers of Excellence (COE) & teams for back/front office; Defined strategy & vision to scale products & services globally
  • Restructure Organization: Established leadership structure, Centers Of Excellence(COE) teams for back Office(financials, HR), Front Office(sales, marketing and operations) programs. Led M&A integration
  • Business Strategies: Developed & managed strategic IT roadmap, planning lifecycles; drove alignment of teams with product & business strategies
  • Infrastructure & Application Strategy: Developed transformational integrated infrastructure & application strategy for reducing costs while improving overall reliability, security and availability
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Oversaw and deployed Multi-Public Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Microsoft Azure, & Google Cloud) for data gathering for real-time analytics and decision making products
  • Software Integration: Directed global deployment and integration of Workday, Salesforce, Okta, Slack, Box, NetSuite, Anaplan, Snowflake, Clari & Dell-Boomi onto business & product platforms
  • Agile Development: Developed integrated agile organization for aligning with agile development and migrated to 100% cloud-based confluence product for collaboration
  • Security: Scaled SSO adoption, Endpoint security, Phishing, Smishing awareness programs. Managed delivery and scaling of threat modeling and secure architecture programs across range of software products
  • Network: Scaled network to support complex on-prem, cloud and end-point system to get near real-time capacity and information sharing
  • Data Engineering: (VP 2017-2020): Scaled data team from 15 to 55 engineers across US, India, Israel and EU. Developed strategy to democratize data, with data products for advertisers, retailers and business units. Migrated data to cloud, optimized ML models and installed data privacy controls. Architected MDM service to connect products, categories, brands with sales and shoppers. Collaborated with customers, business leaders and product organization to prioritize features, products and tech rollouts.

SENIOR DIRECTOR, Enterprise Data, Game Infra

UBISOFT, Inc
San Francisco, CA
10.2011 - 01.2017
  • Ubisoft is one of the world’s leading game publishers, located in Paris, France. Ubisoft has 30+ game developing studios across 5 continents that develop console, mobile, PC and cloud based games and movies
  • Leadership: Managed global team of 60+ employees and guided DevOps and product development support for the company across China, Singapore, India, Europe, Canada and U.S. Oversaw global product operations and R&D
  • Management: Managed & grew team from 10 to 60+, developed infrastructure, privacy, security, and game DevOps. Lead social & mobile game data services on AWS cloud.
  • Data Operations: Operated thousands of servers and processed TB’s of data daily. Designed, deployed and managed hybrid game & data infrastructure on-prem and AWS. Collaborate with developers, designers, data science teams in China, India, Singapore, Europe, Canada and US
  • Enterprise Programs: Developed enterprise data strategy and transformed data culture to make data #2 priority after Player.
  • Product Development: Led development teams to build data driven games, infrastructure, analytics, security, privacy and data services
  • Business Goals: Addressed business challenges with CIO/CEO by leveraging in-game/ out of game data
  • 5000 business Users: Managed use and migrations from Vertica, Redshift, Teradata, Cassandra, Google Big Query, MySQL, Spark and Hadoop
  • Deploy Big Data: Oversaw design, development, and deployment of Big Data in Hadoop environment with centralized infrastructure in data centers and R&D labs.

DIRECTOR, Engineering, Infrastructure & Analytics

SHARETHIS, INC
Mountain View, CA
06.2008 - 10.2011
  • Sharethis is social media data aggregator and provider of sharing widgets, products and services to large publishers and advertisers though content and ad-tech platforms. Sharethis was one of the largest single cloud deployment on AWS, with multiple data platforms and services to support publishers and advertisers
  • Business Intelligence, Analytics and Management: Managed and grew team from 0-12. Developed infrastructure and data products at cloud scale. Structured data engineering, business intelligence teams while closely working with product engineering and data science teams, during which ShareThis became a data powerhouse.
  • Built Cloud Infrastructure, Products & Organization: Developed state of the art AWS based scalable infrastructure to support all products, serving the publishers to real-time bidding(RTB) for advertising with 20ms response times, ad-ops platform, reporting and insights for ad campaigns, ML models for audience segments.
  • Distributed Computing: Responsible for distributed computing across multiple AWS regions; developed highly scalable Hadoop, Hive, Aster Data, MySQL, CouchDB, Memcached, Cassandra and MongoDB based server infrastructures
  • DevOps: Built DevOps organization; executed Agile initiative and promoted adherence to Agile methodologies across product development groups
    Operational Efficiency: Uncovered opportunities for efficiency improvement and aligned operational activities with business strategy.

MANAGER, SR.MANAGER, E-Commerce and PMO

Qurate Retail, HSNi/Cornerstone Brands
Cincinnati, OH
01.2001 - 01.2008
  • Qurate Retail is retail, catalog and online commerce company focused on premium brands in apparel and home furnishings
  • Grew from $200M to $500M from 2001 to 2007
  • Reported to CIO, Recruited to turnaround IT function to bring efficiency in processes, cost optimization through consolidated technology, services and people.
  • Provided leadership across IT and R&D departments, establishing priorities and driving global transformational IT programs
  • Overhauled entire enterprise systems Infrastructure & application architecture that was built on legacy technologies
  • Increased operating efficiency with latest market-proven technologies
  • Consolidated enterprise databases - from multi-vendor database solutions (Oracle, Sybase).Managed
  • Led cloud engineering and operations, network, telecom, data center, messaging, ITIL and PMO globally
  • Managed frontgate.com; ballarddesigns.com; garthill.com; travelsmith.com; grandiroad.com; territoryahead.com e-commerce technology operations and projects to support brand growth, revenue and customer experience.

Education

LEAD Prgoram - Corporate Innovation

Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stanford, CA
08.2018 - 12.2019

Artificial Intelligence Certificate - Artificial Intelligence

MIT Sloan School of Management
Boston, MA
11.2017 - 02.2018

Cyber Security Certificate - Cyber Security - Technology, Application, Policy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
01.2018 - 12.2018

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Bangalore University
Bangalore
09.1990 - 04.1995

Skills

Team Building and Motivation

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Accomplishments

  • AI & Cyber Security Speaker, Moderator, Thought Leader
  • Investor & Advisor, LinkedIn Author and Influencer
  • Bay Area CIO council member
  • Member Cyber Security Alliance
  • CxO Community Organizer at GIT1K.club

Timeline

Chief Business Development Officer

Flodata.io
08.2023 - Current

CIO, CISO, Data & Engineering Advisor

GIT1K (A Community of CxOs & Startup Founders)
2022.05 - Current

LEAD Prgoram - Corporate Innovation

Stanford Graduate School of Business
08.2018 - 12.2019

Cyber Security Certificate - Cyber Security - Technology, Application, Policy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
01.2018 - 12.2018

Artificial Intelligence Certificate - Artificial Intelligence

MIT Sloan School of Management
11.2017 - 02.2018

CIO, CISO & SVP Data Engineering

Quotient
01.2017 - 05.2022

SENIOR DIRECTOR, Enterprise Data, Game Infra

UBISOFT, Inc
10.2011 - 01.2017

DIRECTOR, Engineering, Infrastructure & Analytics

SHARETHIS, INC
06.2008 - 10.2011

MANAGER, SR.MANAGER, E-Commerce and PMO

Qurate Retail, HSNi/Cornerstone Brands
01.2001 - 01.2008

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Bangalore University
09.1990 - 04.1995

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