Natarajan Ganapathi

About Natarajan Ganapathi

Experience Summary:* Full stack Data and AI professional and thought leader with rich experience in Consulting, Solutions, Delivery across industry verticals predominantly in Financial Services, Consumer & Retail.* A growth leader, delivered solutions, won engagements consistently helping to acquire new customers and grow existing customers for Data & AI business.* Developed multiple frameworks, tools for Data & AI strategy consulting practice covering data engineering, data governance, analytics maturity, data monetization, data observability, ML & MLOps.* Incubated, nurtured multiple Technology CoEs over years. Scaled one of the strategic CoE in the last 1 year.* Compassionate leader, with a strong passion for building teams, nurturing talent and growing business.* Currently heading Data & AI Solution engineering for Financial Services, Banking, Manufacturing verticals in Hexaware.* Successfully leading Snowflake Practice with focus on Growth, Solutions, Partner motions, GTM and Competency development. Few small accomplishments, I take pride in, when it comes to getting hands dirty. Secured 2nd place in Business Solutions Hackathon for Manufacturing & Consumer for coming up with a data product covering the analytical needs across Buying & Merchandising value chain for Retail & Consumer Clients. Runners up in the BFS Fintech Hackathon to develop a end-to-end data product for automating E-mail case management using NLP & ML.3. Hackathon during Covid times for business opportunity - Supply Chain command center solution.

Experience

1. Associate Vice President

   Hexaware Technologies

   Jul 2024 — Present

   Delivered key outcomes for Snowflake Practice and Partnership:1. Leader in Analyst ranking for Snowflake Implementation Services for NA.2. Achieved Elite Partner Level for Snowflake in the same year.3. Setup and delivered a focused working group to deliver close to 400+ certifications.4. Successful delivery of Industry Solutions and Accelerators in Snowflake. Helped in acquiring 5+ new logos and 3+ existing logos moving to Snowflake.6. Led multiple wins for Data & AI engagements in three large accounts in FS and multiple small accounts in Manufacturing.7. Helped recovery of two key engagements from delivery escalations to safety with focused efforts.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  M.Tech, Industrial Engineering

• International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

  Post Graduate Diploma in Data Science

  2017 — 2018

• University of Madras

  B.E, Mechanical Engineering

Skills

• Master Data Management
• Dimensional Modeling
• Machine Learning
• Hdp
• Data Warehousing
• Agile Project Management
• Data Integration
• Python
• Scrum
• Payment Card Processing
• Teradata
• Credit Risk
• Microsoft Azure
• Sas
• Data Migration
• Predictive Analytics
• Business Objects
• Analytics
• Visionplus
• Informatica
• Siebel
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Etl
• Data Modeling
• Sql
• R
• Business Intelligence
• Obiee
• Data Warehouse Architecture
• Alteryx
• Emv
• Tableau
• Statistical Modeling
• Power Bi
• Databases
• Azure ML
• Merchant Acquiring
• Oracle
• Olap
• Requirements Gathering