Amol Kekre
VP Big Data Analytics @Lendingclub
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WORK HISTORY
VP Big Data Analytics @Lendingclub
San Francisco, CA, US
Put together modern Big Data Anaytics Self-Service Stack with GenAl/LLM. Migrated 250+ reports, 100+ dashboards, and over 10 business units to modern stack. Reduced Opex from 70% to 10%. Increased productivity by 2x. Lowered cost of ownership by 8x over legacy systems. Enabled conversational analytics that improved business productivity.
EDUCATION
University of Windsor
M.S, Digital Signal Processing and Computer Architecture
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
B.Tech EE, Microcomputers and Electronics
SKILLS
ABOUT AMOL KEKRE
VP Eng Big Data Analytics @LendingClub- VP Eng Big Data Analytics @ChangeHealthcare- VP Eng of Big Data & Analytics @OrbComm- CTO and Co-Founder of DataTorrent, Inc. Focus on big data, cloud, real-time, batch, data analytics, and machine learning- Director of Engineering for Yahoo! Hadoop Data Platform. Led development of Yarn (Hadoop 2.0)- Director of Engineering for Yahoo! Apex group (Yahoo! Ads). Led migration of all Ad batch processes to Hadoop- Senior Engineering Manager for http://finance.yahoo.com (Yahoo! Finance)- My teams architected SOA based highly scalable and distributed systems, with extremely large datasets; worldwide services layer; and massively scalable quotes platform. This had over 2500 servers worldwide- Managed relationship with eng and biz execs across 20 countries- Build/grew multiple teams and managers. I have hired over 200 top-notch engineers in Yahoo! alone- Participated in US and Worldwide M&A deals/negotiations- Created and managed worldwide development/community team within Yahoo! and put in place international blue print of Yahoo! Finance.Specialties: Large Scale Architectures and Distributed Systems; Big Data Analytics - Spark, Snowflake, Cassandra, HBase, Spark, Kafka, Druid, Drools, Storm, Pig, Hive, Airflow; & Cloud (AWS, Azure); Analytics (OLAP); Machine Learning, GenAI/LLM; Worldwide Content Platforms; Hiring/Mentoring; Team Building; Technical Management; Ad Platforms, Business Development; Strategic Planning; Capital Expenditure and Resource Planning;
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