Amarnath Bandekar
Sr. Manager, Platform Engineering | Data-Analytics-AI/ML Leader-DataOps Expert | Solution Architect | Change Management Champion
- Role
- Senior Engineering Manager at Medline
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Amarnath Bandekar
Sr. Manager of Platform Engineering at Medline Industries, where I established the discipline for our Data & Analytics portfolio—managing multimillion-dollar budgets, identifying leakage for major cost savings ($0.9M), streamlining governance, and accelerating onboarding of modern platforms like Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Azure AI/ML.Key AchievementsPioneered AI adoption in Data Engineering, delivering DataOps frameworks that saved 30% of development effort; extended Agentic AI to optimize Platform Operations.Led app rationalization across IT portfolio, achieving $3M savings in 3 years; championed global Power Platform rollout for business automation.Modernized Data Analytics architecture end-to-end; scaled teams from 4→24 while establishing Data as a Product practice and governance frameworks.20+ years merging strategy, people, and cutting-edge tech—Azure ecosystem mastery, GenAI/LangChain, SAP HANA migrations, low-code platforms. Exec education from Wharton, Yale, Stanford sharpened my change leadership and P&L ownership.Passionate about scaling AI-led platforms, optimizing enterprise tech stacks, and delivering measurable business value.
Experience
Senior Engineering Manager
Sep 2024 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Manage & streamline Platform Engineering and Operations for Data & Analytics portfolio at Medline.Lead the tech foundation for Modernization of Data & Analytics technology, focusing on areas such as DataOps, Change Management, FinOps, Service management etc.Leverage the power of AI in DataOps and Operations ManagementLead the architecture of modern Data & Analytics platform, driving standards, governance, integrations & patterns.
Education
Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering
2002 — 2006
Skills
- Shell Scripting
- Composite
- Datastage
- Requirements Analysis
- Databases
- Oracle Sql Developer
- Pl/Sql
- Sap Hana
- Cisco Information Server
- Perl
- Sap Bw
- Itil
- Ibm Db2
- Unix
- Bex Analyzer
- Core Java
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Vbscript
- Sybase
- Unix Shell Scripting
- Xml
- IT Management
- C
- Sdlc
- Xquery
- IT Strategy
- Microstrategy
- Crystal Reports
- Data Virtualization
- Sql
- Linux
- Solaris
- Vb.net
- Db2
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