Robert Malkin
VP of Engineering, Data and Insights
- Role
- VP, Engineering, Data & Insights at Warner Music Group
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Robert Malkin
Seasoned engineering executive skilled at building high-performing teams across data…
Experience
VP, Engineering, Data & Insights
Jun 2023 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US
Led and grew the ~100-person WMG Data & Insights team, covering dimensional and analytical data platforms, data science, AI/ML engineering, and data presentation apps. Fully remote team with members in NYC, the Bay Area, Toronto, and other locations across North America and Europe- As engineering co-lead, helped built WMG\'s full-time tech team from scratch. Built engineering culture and operations from the ground up including job ladders, interview processes, hiring committees. Installed review processes and forums for engineering strategy, engineering design, execution, and RCA. Actively contributed to WMG Tech strategy. Hired directors, managers and ICs, and have coached two ICs into managers- Built and delivered WMG Pulse, an app providing unprecedented data, insights, and financial transparency to songwriters, artists, and their teams. Built agentic AI solutions for natural language querying and insights summarization in this app- Applied scaled machine learning to multiple problems in the music domain. My team delivered a scaled system for matching unclaimed royalties, leading to substantial marginal revenue while saving in compute costs per year. Built ML-based song and artist streaming consumption benchmarks and forecasts to contextualize their performance and make key business decisions- Led an ongoing transformation of the analytical data platform from SQL to Spark. Inspired by the data mesh concept, transforming the platform from a collection of tables into a set of high quality, use-case focused data products. Achieving in annual cost savings along the way- In Q3 2025, starting an ambitious effort to build out an AI-enabled intelligence platform blending unstructured and structured data into a single agentic analytics and discovery system.
Skills
- Computer Science
- Perl
- Hadoop
- Machine Learning
- Mapreduce
- Linux
- Natural Language Processing
- Python
- Algorithms
- Software Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Development
- Distributed Systems
- Java
- Scalability
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