About

Ketan Patil is a highly experienced Software Development Engineer III at Flipkart, with over 7 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently working as a Tech Lead for the Supply Chain Planning Engineering team, where he is responsible for scaling and automating logistics and manpower forecasting for hundreds of fulfillment centers across India. His main focus is on optimizing the supply chain logistics network for fast and cost-effective deliveries and returns to provide the best end-user experience on Flipkart. Ketan is an expert in distributed computing over big data and scaling ML pipelines. He has extensive experience working with Hadoop and other big data technologies to develop self-serve platforms that help data scientists and data analysts across Flipkart run and experiment with their ML scripts with huge datasets in a distributed compute system for fast execution. His work has enabled users to forget about the parallelization and input dataset generation part, leaving it completely on the platform and focus solely on developing ML core logic, enabling them to enhance their algorithm rapidly. In his previous roles at Flipkart, Ketan worked with the Inventory Planning Team, where he created platforms to support automated inventory replenishment, automated rebalancing of inventory across the country, and automated liquidation of unwanted inventory for millions of products on Flipkart. He was also a Software Development Engineer II, working with the Decision Science Platform Team, where he developed a self-serve platform to help data scientists and data analysts across Flipkart run and experiment with their ML scripts with huge datasets in a distributed compute system for fast execution. Ketan holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He also completed his AISSCE from St. Arnold's HR. Sec. School, Indore. Ketan is an expert in software engineering, ML, big data, senior software engineering, and Hadoop. He is a highly motivated and dedicated professional who always strives to achieve maximum throughput in his work.