Sumeet Yawalkar

Senior Director - Data & Analytics @DataRobot

San Francisco, CA, US

Executive owner of enterprise data, analytics, and applied data science across Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, and Customer Success for a multi-product AI SaaS platform.Led a 15+ person organization spanning Data Engineering, Analytics, BI, and ML Production, owning the end-to-end data platform, telemetry strategy, and executive reporting used to run the business.Key outcomes- Built an AI-ready data platform supporting the majority of DataRobot products across single- and multi-tenant SaaS environments- Reduced new-user PLG churn through improved onboarding telemetry, behavioral analytics, and customer health models- Enabled trusted, standardized KPI reporting across Product, Engineering, GTM, CS, and Finance, improving exec decision velocity- Delivered ~60% reduction in data platform and pipeline costs via architectural optimization and vendor consolidation- Built an in-product agentic AI assistant using real-time clickstream data to guide trial users, reduce friction, and explain model outcomes- Modernized the data stack (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Fivetran) with governed semantic layers, observability, and metric standardization to support AI, PLG analytics, pricing, and executive planning.