Director Of Data & Analytics Resume
Englewood, CO
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- Accomplished Data Engineering and Analytics leader with a track record of spearheading large global teams and developing data and software solutions for live/on - demand streaming services.
- Led formation of Data Analytics Center of Excellence to improve customer experience with compelling new data sets, advanced analytics and microservices powered by machine learning models.
- Led cross functional teams to deliver customer facing data products like Search, Recommendations, AdTech, Video Playback & App UI Analytics.
- Evangelized adoption of engineering best practices like data-driven decision making, continuous integration & continuous deployment, test automation and SLA management.
SKILL:
Data Engineering
Business Intelligence
Machine Learning
AWS Cloud Computing
Microservice Development
SLA Management
Technical Leadership
DevOps
Vendor Management
AdTech
Recommendations & Search
UI Analytics
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Director of Data & Analytics
Confidential, Englewood, CO
Responsibilities:
- Current responsibilities include Data Engineering, Analytics, ML Services and AdTech.
- I lead a 90 - member team across multiple locations in the U.S. and India with direct reports comprising of senior engineering managers, technical product managers, delivery managers and principal data scientists.
- Managed development of key microservices that power Sling app s Home screen content.
- The re-designed Sling app serves 2.5 million subscribers by providing access to hundreds of streaming live TV channels and thousands of on-demand content.
- Led development of an in-house content recommendation service that outperformed/ replaced vendor solution (TiVo) in less than a year and provided foundational framework to personalize all aspects of the new Sling app.
- Increased daily active users (DAU) by 25% and improved successful search rate by 50% by surfacing personalized content that delight our customers.
- Managed AdTech platform that generates over $100 million in revenue through Dynamic Ad Insertion in live TV channels.
- Well versed in Ad decisioning systems (Freewheel), Supply side platforms (SpotX, Telaria) and Demand side platforms (Trade Desk) to deliver programmatic ads using Real time bidding Collaborated with media sales team to improve default impression rate, fill rate and completion rate of ads and promos by 10% in last 12 months.
- Led creation of a visualization analytics team and championed the use of 'single source of truth' data to drive actionable insights.
- Implemented self-service analytics platform using Apache Druid/Superset that empowered engineering and business teams to make timely product decisions.
Technologies used: AWS (S3, EMR, Lambda, CloudWatch, Mediaconvert, DynamoDB etc.), ElasticSearch, OpenResty, Kubernetes, Confluent Kafka, Apache Flink / Spark ETL/ Druid / Superset, Tableau, Go, Gitlab, New Relic, Adobe Analytics
Senior Manager
Confidential, Englewood, CO
Responsibilities:
- Managed development of Content Management Systems (CMS) for several live and on-demand streaming services for Confidential .
- CMS processed over 100k assets monthly from ~75 content providers.
- Built consolidated dashboards for monitoring OTT content delivery through CDNs
- Led successful transition to Agile software methodology and Scrum based project management.
Technologies used: Mulesoft Enterprise Service Bus, Splunk, Elastic Search, Java, Groovy, ReactJS, jQuery, Tomcat, JBOSS
Staff Systems Architect
Confidential, Englewood, CO
Responsibilities:
- Principal architect in development of DVB encryption solution to secure thousands of channels in Confidential satellite television service.
- Led customization of Electronic Program Guide and STB architecture for this project.
Software Engineering Manager
Confidential, Santa Clara, CA
Responsibilities:
- Led a team of embedded software developers in building a DVB encryption device that was used to encrypt all 5000+ channels on Confidential satellite TV service.