Bala Meduri

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Data, Analytics & AI Leader. Angel Investor. Advisor @ Calendly
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Palo Alto, California, United States, United States
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About Bala Meduri

Technology and product executive with extensive experience in leading large-scale distributed systems and building/growing high-performance teams. Unique combination of expertise and proven track record in the areas of Data engineering, AI/ML platforms/services, BI & Analytics, Generative AI and production operations/SRE. Experience spans software products and services at Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial startups. Expertise includes technology modernization and digital transformations leveraging on-premise and public cloud infrastructure and services.  
Career Highlights: 
 * Built and led high-performance global distributed teams of 160 engineers, data scientists, product managers, architects, and people leaders across NA, US, EU, and EMEA. Drove the budgets and P&L responsibility of $75M.   * Drove the Product and Engineering vision, strategy and execution of data and AI/ML democratization.  * Decreased time to market of AI/ML development and integrations into core product experiences (months to weeks).   * Scaled ML platform to 600+ data scientists, ML and data engineering practitioners across several product areas.  * Drove more than $100 million dollars of revenue - Attributed to accelerated, scaled, governed ML/AI development and deployment - Improved recommendation engine, Fraud detection and prevention, innovative customer experiences.  * Transformed Global technical operations into a world-class SRE organization as head of that organization.   * Drove innovative data and systems architectures with security, high availability & reliability, scalability, and performance as first-class citizens. Drove data platform transformation and modernization through re-platforming and migration to public cloud (AWS - Amazon Web Services).  * Recipient of eBay Critical Talent award (2X) for outstanding performance, which is awarded to top 1% employees each year.   Core Competencies include: Technology and Product Leadership | Vision, Strategy and Execution | Digital Transformation and Modernization | Data Infrastructure and ML Platforms | AI Services | Hybrid Cloud Optimizations | Organizational Leadership: High Performance, Global and Diverse Teams | Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) | Large-Scale Distributed Systems | Engineering | Thought Leadership | Collaboration | Customer-focused | Results-driven | Operational Excellence

Bala Meduri's Current Company Details
Calendly

Calendly

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Data, Analytics & AI Leader. Angel Investor. Advisor
Bala Meduri Work Experience Details
  • Calendly
    Vp, Data, Analytics & Ai
    Calendly Apr 2024 - Present
    Atlanta, Georgia, Us
    Leading Calendly's Data Science & AI, Data & Analytics Engineering, Product Analytics teams. Awesome culture, Outcomes driven, Modern Data Tech StackWe are hiring. Check it out: https://careers.calendly.com/
  • Several Start-Ups
    Angel Investor & Advisor
    Several Start-Ups Dec 2015 - Present
  • Ltk (Formerly Rewardstyle & Liketoknow.It)
    Vp, Data Platform & Dsml
    Ltk (Formerly Rewardstyle & Liketoknow.It) Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
    Dallas, Tx, Us
  • Jpmorgan Chase & Co.
    Managing Director, Gm For Ml Training Platform
    Jpmorgan Chase & Co. Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
    New York, Ny, Us
    * Drove the firm wide strategy and execution of evolving foundational ML capabilities and providing seamless user experience including driving data quality, data transformations, feature engineering, data lineage, model experimentation, model respository etc. This ensured that firm wide data is cataloged, centralized, curated, and served before a production-grade model can be experimented, trained, tested, deployed, and monitored.* Significantly reduced the the time that Data engineering teams, data scientists and ML Engineers in discovering the data sets/products available, obtaining necessary entitlements to access the data, addressing the data quality issues, data lineage etc. along with providing an integrated suite of capabilities and a compelling experience to prepare the data ready for the ML model experimentation/training. * Drove the execution of comprehensive ML training platform to transform and accelerate firm wide data and ML democratization
  • Jpmorgan Chase & Co.
    Managing Director, Head Of Firm Wide Advanced Data Catalog And Data Governance Platforms
    Jpmorgan Chase & Co. May 2021 - Jan 2022
    New York, Ny, Us
    * Led the transformation and modernization of the firm-wide hybrid-cloud data platforms and the next generation of data management capabilities. This included building and evolving world class firm wide data catalog providing the hydration, discovery and lineage of the firm wide data assets. This also included driving the harmonious existence of the federated catalogs across various domains with a unified firm wide view. * The platform is built to meet the data governance / full risk and compliance requirements in a seamless, integrated and automated way providing a compelling user experience. * Drove the firm wide data quality and data entitlements strategy and execution.
  • Kheyti
    Member Of The Board Of Directors
    Kheyti Mar 2018 - Sep 2021
    Hyderabad, Telangana, In
    Technology Solutions for Small Farmers (http://www.kheyti.com)
  • Ebay
    Senior Director, Head Of Ml Platform & Ai Services
    Ebay Aug 2018 - May 2021
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    * Driven the company wide ML platform and AI services vision and Mission. Built and Lead an amazing* organization spanning the full spectrum of AI talent: Research & Science, Core AI Engineering, Product* Management, Architecture, Data Engineering, Production Engineering & support.* Built a truly global, diverse, and cohesive organization enabling the data scientists and developers across the* company to build transformative, trusted and magical product and customer experiences.* Led the team towards the design, development, and continuous evolution of AI platform that provides full* ML life cycle capabilities: Data abstractions and transformations, Model experimentation & validation, Model repository along with the metadata, at scale Model deployments & management. This ranged from simple & classic ML models to DL models for training/serving across heterogeneous HW architectures and software frameworks* Built the platform with an ecosystem of homegrown & open source products supporting all mainstream ML frameworks across the full ML life cycle.* Led the science and applied research teams for Computer Vision, NLP, anomaly detection etc providing a higher level of AI services with compelling tools, APIs, front end UI experience. Extensively partnered with internal infrastructure providers (Compute, Network, Storage) and monitoring teams.* Elevated the organization to become an AI competency group and partnered to solve some of the most challenging and fascinating problems in the e-commerce space.* Built an organization with a culture of meritocracy, diversity, research & engineering excellence, and collaboration as core foundational principles.
  • Ebay
    Senior Director, Head Of Global Operations & Site Reliability Engineering
    Ebay Feb 2015 - Aug 2018
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    * Drove the teams responsible for the high availability and reliability of eBay.com services - Infrastructure, Platforms & Applications. * Built a world-class SRE organization with a healthy mix of rock star software and systems engineers. We have worked tirelessly with various domain teams (Ex: Buying, Selling, Search teams etc) in driving the reliability, security, and scalability patterns right from the design stage.* Built excellent observability, toolchains and self-healing mechanisms for our business-critical applications, platform, and infrastructure products* Led the development of full stack observability tools for all the mission critical systems, databases, application services.* All product engineering groups loved the transformation and collaboration leveraging the domain SRE model. This also helped core product engineering teams to focus and drive the velocity of building business-critical services.
  • Ebay
    Director, Data Infrastructure And Engineering
    Ebay Jun 2012 - Feb 2015
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Led Global Data and storage Infrastructure, Architecture and Engineering domains.* Transactional Database Platform (Relational and NoSQL Technologies): Oversaw entire customer-facing eBay.com mission-critical data infrastructure and platforms. * Responsible for the eBay Data Access Layer (DAL) which abstracted the deployment/scaling of backend physical database infrastructure from the application services. * Drove the high performance, availability, reliability, scalability and security of the data systems along with Compute and Storage - SAN/NAS/Object.* Analytics Infrastructure: Led enterprise data warehouses, BI Applications, TERADATA, Hadoop/Hbase and data analytics tools eco system
  • Ebay
    Director, Database Engineering
    Ebay Mar 2010 - Jun 2012
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Responsible for the following domains (Data Architecture, Data Infrastructure & Engineering, Production Operations) a) Transactional Database platform for the core marketplace b) Analytics platforms c) Mobile platforms

Bala Meduri Skills

Scalability Hadoop Big Data Agile Methodologies Cross Functional Team Leadership Process Improvement Distributed Systems Cloud Computing Product Management Databases Analytics Mobile Devices Crm Business Intelligence High Availability Saas Data Mining Scrum System Architecture Enterprise Software Soa Linux Leadership Rest Solaris Software Development Agile Project Management Enterprise Architecture Mobile Applications Perl Management

Bala Meduri Education Details

  • Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
    Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
    Executive Leadership
  • San José State University
    San José State University
    General
  • Mississippi State University
    Mississippi State University
    Engineering
  • Osmania University, Hyderabad
    Osmania University, Hyderabad
    Engineering

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