Arun Ramani

About Arun Ramani

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS• Accomplished Results-driven engineering leader with over 20 years of experience in Big Data at Yahoo, eBay, and PayPal, recognized for driving innovation to deliver outstanding business impact and operational excellence• Trusted leader in driving Customer 360 initiatives by integrating cross-functional data and linking customers across their assets to create a universal customer footprint, establishing a single source of truth that deliver unified insights, improve personalization, and enhance business decision-making and customer experience• Expert in Data Analytics, Feature Engineering, and Cloud Migration, with a strong track record of building self-service tools and scalable platforms that support diverse user personas like data scientists, data engineers, business analysts etc driving automation, efficiency and cost optimization at scale.• Strategic technical leader driving technology alignment with business priorities, delivering scalable solutions that balance immediate execution with long-term architectural vision• Transformational leader skilled in building and scaling global teams, fostering a high-performance culture, and mentoring the next generation of leaders• Early adopter of AI & Generative AI, spearheading initiatives that enhance developer productivity, accelerate time to market, and create competitive advantagesKEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Business impact: Delivered $300M+ in annual business value by enabling revenue growth and preventing fraud losses through innovative data-driven strategies that optimize operations and enhance risk management• Time to Market (TTM) efficiencies: Optimized TTM by 50% by building self-service capabilities • Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) efficiencies: Optimized TCO by 50% using automation and GenAI capabilities• Cloud Migration: Reduced on-prem to cloud migration time by 30%, ensuring seamless operational scalability• Cost Optimizations: Reduced the annual cloud computation cost by $1.6M USD by building auto optimizers

Experience

1. Senior Director

   Warner Bros. Discovery

   Oct 2025 — Present

Education

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  Masters, Computer Science and Engineering

  2006 — 2008

• Anna University, Chennai, India

  B.Tech, Information Technology

  2001 — 2005

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Engineering

Skills

• Big Data
• Java
• Data Streaming
• Pig
• Distributed Systems
• Junit
• Hudson
• Perl
• Hadoop
• Solr
• Spark
• Hive
• Software Development
• Eclipse
• Apache Kafka
• Mapreduce
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Apache
• Agile Methodologies
• Hbase
• Apache Pig
• Unix
• Apache Spark
• Linux