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BK Vasan
Executive Data & AI Leader specializing in enterprise analytics, cloud platforms, and retail innovation
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Senior data/AI and platform leader with Walmart- and T-Mobile-scale architecture experience, including building real-time inventory + forecasting platforms (Kafka/Cassandra/Hadoop) and Azure IoT systems. Known for translating board-level business goals into roadmaps that deliver measurable impact (e.g., $50M savings and $250M profit in a year; +2% conversion via Customer 360) and for hands-on problem solving in ML/forecasting (feature reduction and LASSO).
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Key Strengths
- Led variable reduction/root-cause analysis for Walmart demand forecasting at massive scale (400M store-item combinations); reduced features from ~6000 to <50 and applied LASSO to stabilize results
- Board-level technology strategy communication tied to measurable business outcomes (e.g., forecasting platform: $50M expense savings and $250M profit in a year; Customer 360: +2% conversion and $50M revenue)
- Built and executed enterprise data/AI roadmaps (cloud migration, test & learn, Customer 360, GenAI automation) accelerating a 3-year $350M margin goal to 2 years
- Scaled and structured data/engineering orgs across platform/data engineering, governance, analytics/BI pods, PM intake/sprint execution, and data science; leveraged offshore vendors for 24/7 support
- Architected high-throughput, real-time systems (Kafka/Cassandra/Hadoop) for Walmart grocery platform; improved inventory accuracy from ~75% to ~90% and enabled rapid rollout (built in 6 months; scaled to 400 stores in 18 months)
- Built Azure-based IoT platform at T-Mobile for real-time device data ingestion and customer insights
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