Sekhar M. K.
Vice President of Engineering @ Rakuten India | Fintech, Data, AI
- Role
- Vice President of Engineering at Rakuten India
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sekhar M. K.
Hands-on data and product engineering leader with 25+ years of experience building and scaling global teams and platforms across cloud, big data, machine learning, e-commerce, and digital advertising. At Rakuten India over the past seven years, I have led end-to-end Product, Data, AI/ML Platform, and Engineering efforts across multiple verticals—including Data Science, Fintech, Rakuten Card, and the Sixth Sense Data Observability initiative. My focus is on building scalable systems, organizations, and high-impact AI driven teams that solve complex business challenges
Experience
Vice President of Engineering
Apr 2019 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Currently leading product engineering for SixthSense (Observability & AIOps) at Rakuten India.As Product Engineering Lead for Sixth Sense Data Observability, established the AI, GTM, and PLG strategy in partnership with Business and Sales.Supported Rakuten India Fintech and Rakuten Card on enterprise data architecture and AI/GenAI solutions across productivity, business, and customer use cases.Previously led Data Science Platform Product Engineering, guiding global teams to deliver an end-to-end multi-cloud platform for data scientists and ML workloads.Launched and operated an HPC/GPU platform that accelerated model training and advanced ML solutions.
Education
University of Connecticut
Financial Accounting and Reporting (Certification in Business Administration)
2002 — 2002
Louisiana State University
Master of Science (M.S.), Systems Science
1991 — 1993
Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science
1987 — 1991
Skills
- Big Data
- Struts
- Java
- Ruby
- Oracle
- Business Intelligence
- Requirements Analysis
- Cloud Computing
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Enterprise Software
- Enterprise Architecture
- Scalability
- Software Project Management
- Software as a Service (Saas)
- Rest
- Mysql
- Distributed Systems
- Saas
- Sql
- Linux
- Hibernate
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Architecture
- Unix
- Soap
- Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
- Architectures
- Web Applications
- Hadoop
- Agile Project Management
- Spring Framework
- Databases
- Ajax
- Perl
- Data Science
- Spring
- Sdlc
- Web Services
- Project Management
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