About

Hemanth Thota is a thought leader and technologist with over 19 years of experience in driving business value and insights through technology innovation and leveraging data. Currently, he is the Senior Director and Site Lead for Data Platform at Visa in Bangalore, where he is building a data culture, technology, and teams. He has a proven track record of building next-generation "Best-in-Class" data platforms, flagship BI (Business Intelligence), analytical products, and high-performing teams from the ground up, by leveraging data assets and driving business value and strategic insight across various fraud monitoring, risk analysis, loyalty, consumer analytics, and global business intelligence services. Hemanth has expertise in building Petabyte (PB) scale distributed data platforms, real-time and batch data pipelines (ELT/ETL), business intelligence, and visualization. He is also skilled in machine learning, NLP, predictive analytics, and anomaly detection. He has a strong background in leadership, technology, and strategy, and has worked effectively with diverse technology and business partners to align business and IT strategies and achieve key business and IT goals. Throughout his career, Hemanth has demonstrated his ability to drive business value and deliver economic benefits through technology innovation, operational efficiency, automation, and globalization of delivery. He has extensive experience in talent development, building high-performing teams, data platforms, data products, digital transformation, DaaS, PaaS, distributed computing, data integration/unification, data governance, data taxonomy, data quality, data mastering, data monetization, data science, IT architecture, data warehousing, information management, enterprise business intelligence and analytics strategy, cloud, data pipelines ELT/ETL, master data management (MDM), big data, Hadoop, visualization, self-service, and data discovery. Hemanth holds a BE degree in Electronics and Communication from the University of Madras and a Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor's degree from Anna University. His tech stack includes ML, ETL, NLP, big data, data scientist, Hadoop, and integration. Hemanth is a valuable asset to any organization that is looking to build a data-driven culture and drive business value through technology innovation.