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Vindhya Sankapally

Product Manager - InfoApps Analytics
Fremont,CA

Summary

  • 10+ years of product management & analytics experience, with focus on data quality & governance.
  • Enhancing user experiences through data-driven decisions and improving active user share.
  • Recognized for outstanding communication, complex decision-making, and deep customer engagement

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Product Manager - InfoApps Analytics

Apple
Cupertino, CA
06.2019 - Current
  • Spearheading the development and implementation of robust analytics systems for Apple-owned apps, enhancing user engagement.
  • Collaborating with privacy teams to ensure a remarkable 99.9% data privacy compliance rate, maintaining user trust.
  • Led pivotal project ensuring accurate & timely payouts to publishers, resulting in 80% reduction in errors and increased partner satisfaction.
  • Collaboratively architecting and implementing advanced analytics systems and data pipelines, achieving a 40% improvement in data quality across all apps.
  • Extensively collaborating with cross-functional teams, including engineers, marketing, UI/UX Research, A/B testing teams, QA, Data Engineering, and Data Scientists, accelerating product development.
  • Proficiently translated complex data into actionable insights using tools like Keynote and Tableau to inform strategic decisions and product enhancements, facilitating faster decision-making.
  • Maintained deep customer engagement, leveraging data-driven insights to enhance user experiences, resulting in notable increases in user retention and engagement.

Data Science Engineering Lead

Amazon
Palo Alto, CA
01.2016 - 01.2019
  • Conducted competitive analysis measurement to improve search metrics
  • Quantified top-of-funnel activity, enhancing user understanding and shopping missions
  • Identified and measured search abuse strategies (catalog, behavioral) to enhance the search relevance algorithm
  • Established a human judgments program to evaluate & measure search defects, managing both offshore & onsite content reviewers
  • Set KPIs and goals for A/B tests, leveraging voice of customer data
  • Created data extraction tools, conducted statistical analysis, and produced reports for senior leadership.

Data Analytics Engineer

Apple
Cupertino, CA
01.2013 - 01.2016

· Processed wireless logs in an ETL pipeline using Hadoop technologies.

· Analyzed large Hadoop clusters to generate reports and gain insights into organizational metric data.

· Collaborated with cross-functional teams to create and maintain critical feedback metrics.

· Provided technical expertise for business reporting and communicated data insights to senior executives.

Member of Technical Staff

NetApp Inc
Sunnyvale, CA
01.2010 - 01.2013

· Designed and developed a data warehouse to process and store error log data.

· Analyzed error log data to provide actionable insights to cross-functional teams.

· Developed a machine learning classifier to automate mapping customer cases to relevant bugs using customer log data, reducing manual effort significantly.

· Created test strategies for addressing test gaps and conducted customer usage statistics analysis.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
08.2009 - 05.2011

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering

JNTU
Hyderabad, India
08.2005 - 05.2009

Data Science Certificate - undefined

Harvard Extension School
01.2005 - 05.2009

Skills

    Research and trend analysis

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Timeline

Product Manager - InfoApps Analytics

Apple
06.2019 - Current

Data Science Engineering Lead

Amazon
01.2016 - 01.2019

Data Analytics Engineer

Apple
01.2013 - 01.2016

Member of Technical Staff

NetApp Inc
01.2010 - 01.2013

Master of Science - Computer Science

North Carolina State University
08.2009 - 05.2011

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering

JNTU
08.2005 - 05.2009

Data Science Certificate - undefined

Harvard Extension School
01.2005 - 05.2009
Vindhya SankapallyProduct Manager - InfoApps Analytics