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Venkatesh(Venki) Shivanna

Technical Director II, Data & AI Engineering

Electronic Arts (EA)

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United States

Bio

• Leader in Digital transformation efforts to drive multiple initiatives to define and collect data, solve problems to make better products and provide awesome personalized gameplay experience through safer and a secure channel • Over 20 years experience as a leader in helping business partners/organization to optimize thier business operations to be more agile and enable them to better serve their customers through effective personalization who might be focused on a set of known metrics at the cost of missing key insights, and eventually help them to find deeper insights to drive key strategic decision based on data to achieve digital transformation, sustaining competitive advantage over thier peers in the industry. • Visionay stroyteller in areas of turning data into human readable & self - serve reports[explorability] ,transform data to stories[explainability], and converts numbers into knowledge etc. • Deep experience in Design, architecture and implementing large-scale Data platform supporting BI/AI, Data Analytics & Viz exploration , personalization systems @ Enterprise level to consume several PB’s of Data from various data systems across the org. • Player's/user's centric mindest in exploring data with major focus into Data Analytics & insights (like Telemetry , LTV, Segmentation, attribution, Cohort, Acquisition, Engagement, Monetization & Campaign Metrics) • Responsible for developing best practices & data governance for analytics systems to incorporate @ the Enterprise level to support multiple teams with tight access control. • Mentoring, training and assisting engineers during design and development phase to build enterprise level self – service data and consumption layer with more focus on scalable, fault tolerant and sustainability. • Specialties: Data & reporting platforms and Services, Gaming Platforms and Live Services, Cloud Computing, legacy - cloud migration, Big Data Systems, Distributed Systems, Fault-Tolerant Systems, High Availability and Reliability, Hadoop, BI, Analytics & self-serve data exploration and explanation. • Experience working on projects utilizing Agile principles, practices and methodologies Game credits; Apex Legends | Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order | Star Wars: Squadrons | BF2042 | Knockout City | Madden Mobile https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/by_genre/developerId,1111267/

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Technical Director II, Data & AI Engineering at Electronic Arts (EA)

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Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Eng

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