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Praveen Kumar

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Director. Enterprise Architect Data&AI at VISA
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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  • Kearney
    Senior Director - Data & AI (Consulting - Middle East)
    Kearney
    Jul 2025 - Current (10 months)
    Focus: Enterprise Al assistants, knowledge search, and workflow automation for consulting delivery teams. Program governance: Turned leadership objectives into a roadmap and prioritized initiatives; ran delivery and risk reviews. Process redesign: Redesigned delivery workflows (research, drafting, Q/A, quality checks) to remove redundant steps and manual coordination. Automation: Automated repetitive work using assistants, workflow triggers, and integrated tools; improved handoffs with clearer states and SLAs. Al operationalization: Designed the assistant system (ingestion, retrieval, evaluation, fallback, monitoring) to keep outputs reliable in real usage. Controls and compliance: Implemented approval flows, audit logs, access controls, an
  • exl
    Director - Al & Data Engineering
    exl
    Oct 2023 - Jun 2025 (1 year 9 months)
    Focus: Predictive risk and decision systems: data pipelines, model delivery, and scoring APIs. Delivery leadership: Managed data and ML engineering streams for feature pipelines, training jobs, and batch/near-real-time scoring. Decision automation: Built scoring APIs with guardrails and partnered with risk/product teams to embed outputs into decision workflows. Reliability and quality: Implemented quality checks, reconciliation, alerting dashboards, and incident playbooks for recurring issues. Release discipline: Versioned code, tests, reproducible runs, and clear support documentation. Adoption and rollout: Safer rollouts (champion/challenger where applicable) and validation before wider deployment.
  • Cargill
    Lead Data Architect - Data Platforms & Analytics
    Cargill
    Jan 2021 - Sep 2023 (2 years 9 months)
    Focus: Data platform modernization and analytics enablement for reporting and ML use cases. Platform modernization: Designed a governed lakehouse (bronze/silver/gold) with data contracts, ownership, and access patterns. Automation and pipelines: Built batch and streaming pipelines for operational KPIs and analytics; improved freshness for key dashboards. Governance and trust: Put quality checks, basic lineage, and catalog standards in place to reduce rework and improve trust. Enablement: Curated datasets and feature-ready tables to reduce time spent on data preparation.
  • phData
    Solutions Architect - Data Platforms
    phData
    May 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 8 months)
    Focus: Cloud migration and modern analytics patterns for large data platforms. Discovery and solution design: Led discovery and solution design, balancing performance, cost, and operational simplicity. Build patterns: Delivered reference pipelines in PySpark/SQL and tuning standards (partitioning, joins, storage layout). Operational readiness: Set CI/CD patterns and release runbooks; stabilized workloads through root-cause analysis.
  • HPE
    Data Engineer & Analytics
    HPE
    Jan 2010 - Dec 2019 (10 years)
    ETL and reporting: Built enterprise ETL and reporting pipelines using SQL, Python, and big data tools. End-to-end ownership: Owned requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support. Performance and quality: Query tuning, partition strategies, storage layout improvements, and validation/reconciliation routines. Production support: On-call incidents, root-cause analysis, and permanent fixes to prevent repeat issues. Additional roles: Worked in earlier roles during this period at Genpact, L&T Technology Services, and Wipro (India).
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    Bachelors of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Science Engineering
    Jan 2006 - Jan 2010 (4 years 1 month)