Kai Thapa

Founder and CEO

SunnyData

Feb 2023 - Current (3 years 6 months)

As part of the founding team at SunnyData, I will be driving our go-to-market strategy and building out the delivery teams to help our customers on their Databricks journey to drive to business outcomes faster.

Account Executive

Alation

Feb 2021 - Feb 2023 (2 years 1 month)

Alation powers a range of data intelligence solutions, including analytics, data governance, and cloud transformation. By leveraging the Alation Data Catalog to generate insights that are more accurate and data-driven, users across many industries are helping drive data culture within their organizations. To succeed, enterprises need a strong data culture. Alation instills a strong data culture throughout the organization by promoting search & discovery, data literacy, and active data governance to deliver a trusted data foundation that spurs innovation while maintaining customer trust.

Healthcare Strategic Account Executive

Informatica

Mar 2016 - Feb 2021 (5 years)

Strategic Account Manager for Informatica's Healthcare Vertical. I am responsible for managing the relationship between a select number of strategic accounts in the mid-west territory, including some large Health Plans in the US, a handful of top tier Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, a number of the leading plans specializing in Medicaid and ancillary services, as well as a leading integrated university health system.

Sr. Pre-sales Solutions Engineer

SnapLogic

Apr 2015 - Feb 2016 (11 months)

I am responsible for technical sales in strategic and major accounts at SnapLogic in the NY, NJ and Connecticut. The market has identified SnapLogic as the industry’s fastest integration platform as a service (iPaaS), for both applications and data, on the market today in terms of time to value, complexity of use cases, and productivity of development. With funding from firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Ignition Partners and with the leadership of Gaurav Dhillon, SnapLogic’s co-founder and CEO who also co-founded and ran Informatica for 12+ years, SnapLogic has changed the way enterprises are integrating applications and data in the era of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Social Media and Mobile Computing.

Healthcare Sr. Solutions Lead, Pre Sales

Informatica

Oct 2013 - Apr 2015 (1 year 7 months)

Consulting Manager - Strategy Services

UnitedHealth Group

Mar 2011 - Sep 2013 (2 years 7 months)

Currently, working as the technical lead on consulting projects with commercial health plans to help them assess their ICD-10 needs. As part of the ICD-10 practice, primary responsibility involves working with various departments and functional areas to build a technical inventory of systems and applications that are affected by the ICD-10 compliance mandate and assess the level of effort required to upgrade to ICD-10. Serves as the technical subject matter expert on remediation projects to help clients modify, upgrade or install new systems that are ICD-10 compliant.

Director of Product Management/Pre-Sales

Smart Data Solutions

Oct 2006 - Feb 2011 (4 years 5 months)

A leading provider of innovative cost cutting technology to the healthcare insurance industry by leveraging technology to provide effective and efficient high; Managed and lead onshore and offshore development and IT staff to support quarterly growth, assisted in pre-sales and RFP process, performed environmental business assessments, estimated costs and wrote Statement of Work, developed metrics to measure implementation and support costs, implemented a formal SDLC process. Implemented project management tools and documentation to enhance project delivery, tracking and metrics. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS Upgraded all HealthCare EDI Transactions from X12 version 4010 to 5010 and developed products to manage customer upgrades per CMS compliance re

Senior Developer and Implementation Specialist

Smart Data Solutions

Sep 2004 - Oct 2006 (2 years 2 months)

Developed coding standards and design parameters to rapidly develop customized applications per customer need. Migrated all automated job processing from Windows to a Linux based systems. Successfully implemented Virtualization using Vmware ESXi and reduced operational costs. Automated job processing, streamlined operations and developed metrics to measure client to developer ratio. Developed QA requirements and successfully outsourced to India and improved testing cycles. Developed a standard new customer implementation process to increase customer satisfaction levels. Developed an automated EDI Routing module that allowed rapid implementation of Payer and PPO EDI connections.

Junior Developer

Smart Data Solutions

Jan 2003 - Sep 2004 (1 year 9 months)

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a learning table based AI system, which used data entry behavior to improve data entry and reduce errors, gaining a 20% productivity in the Quality Assurance system. Improved existing OCR systems to gain productivity on claims processed in OCR by 10%. Successfully implemented all new clients for the year increasing the customer base from 8 to 20 clients in 2004. Responsibilities: Managed day to day customer support and implementation tasks as assigned by the Senior Developer. Database maintenance and backup monitoring. Install scanning software solution and OCR systems for new clients.

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