Ashok Choppadandi

About Ashok Choppadandi

I am a pioneering Enterprise Data Architect and Technology Leader with 20+ years of experience designing transformative, cloud-native data platforms for Fortune 500 organizations in financial services, automotive, retail, and manufacturing.As the founding architect of Data Reliability Engineering (DRE) at Hitachi, a discipline I developed that has been described as \"SRE for Data,\" I created frameworks for self-healing data pipelines, automated data quality monitoring, and AI-powered system observability that are now deployed by organizations worldwide through the Hitachi Lumada platform. RECOGNITION & ACHIEVEMENTS:• 4 U.S. Patents in cloud computing, ML-driven data systems, and automated data preprocessing• Patent commercially licensed by Edvantis GmbH (Germany) for enterprise deployment• 470+ research citations across data architecture, AI/ML, and cloud computing• Published author:\"Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning with Modern Concepts\"(Vinsa Publishing)• SCOPUS-indexed book chapter:\"Advancing Intelligent Networks Through Distributed Optimization\"• Peer reviewer and editorial board member for international journals• Key contributor to Hitachi Vantara receiving Toyota Innovation Partner of the Year 2022 (selected from partners) FIELD-WIDE IMPACT:My DRE frameworks have been independently adopted by organizations including:Toyota Financial Services | Texas Capital Bank | Disney Parks | Nintendo of America | Wells Fargo | UCLA | Yamaha | Suntory | Republic Finance | and 100+ industrial clients globally through Hitachi Lumada SPECIALIZATIONS:• Data Reliability Engineering & Data Observability• Financial Services Risk Mitigation & Fraud Prevention• Cloud-Native Architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks)• Data Mesh, Medallion Architecture, Data Vault 2.0• AI/ML Integration & MLOps Readiness Certifications: Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer | Google Cloud Professional Architect | TOGAF® 10 Enterprise Architect | Oracle BI Certified

Experience

1. Senior Data Architect

   Fiserv

   Sep 2025 — Present · Frisco, TX, US

   Leading enterprise architecture for scalable Data Vault 2.0 framework on Snowflake at Fiserv, a Fortune 500 global leader in financial services technology ($19.1B revenue, employees, serving financial institutions processing billions of transactions annually). Applying Data Reliability Engineering principles I pioneered at Hitachi to drive data reliability, lineage visibility, and audit-ready design supporting analytics, regulatory reporting, and AI use cases across Fiserv\'s financial platforms serving 100+ million consumer accounts.

Education

• Osmania University

  Bachelor's degree, Education in Mathamatics and Physical Sciences

• Osmania University

  Master's degree, Physics

• Kakatiya University

  Bachelor's degree, Mathamatics, Physics and Chemistry

Skills

• Data Warehousing
• Etl
• Data Modeling
• Informatica
• Obiee
• Business Intelligence
• Requirements Analysis
• Dimensional Modeling
• Requirements Gathering
• Olap
• Pl/Sql
• Data Warehouse Architecture
• Dashboard
• Oracle Big Data
• Oracle Bi Apps
• Solution Architecture
• Data Integration
• Unix
• Social Innovation
• Enterprise Architecture
• Oracle
• Bi Publisher
• Sdlc
• Extract, Transform, Load (Etl)
• Data Architecture
• Data Science
• Data Architects
• R
• Data Analytics
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Apache Spark
• Scala