About

Padma Chitturi is a Senior Engineering Manager (Data & ML Platform) at Indeed with over 11 years of industry experience. She is a Gold Medalist and Best Outgoing Student awardee with deep expertise in driving and building AI-driven data products, data pipelines over large scale distributed systems in the areas of Travel, Finance, CPG, and Defence sectors. With experience in leading medium to large teams towards product delivery, she provides technical, domain, and thought leadership. Padma is a seasoned professional in working with multiple cross-geographically located teams, stakeholders, product managers, engineering leaders, vendors, and architects to understand business problems and defining roadmaps for the products. She is highly results-oriented and biased towards action, ensuring agile practice is being followed by encouraging the team in showcasing demos to stakeholders with rapid development of prototypes and proof of concepts. Her key innovations include building competitive Intel products for Travel Partner Group, delivering de-duplication ML models at scale, and building propensity models using supervised techniques at large scale. She has also built a real-time streaming solution for airlines and the capability of Distributed Deep Learning over Spark inspired from Jeff Dean’s Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks. Padma is a perseverant, opportunist, and innovative professional with specialties in Spark, Storm, Hadoop, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Scala, Kafka, Machine Learning, Architecture, Data Engineering, Big Data, Real-time streaming, Python, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, GraphQL, and Dropwizard. At Indeed, Padma is building efficient, scalable, and secure ML platform services accelerating the pace of Machine Learning design, development, and deployment of impactful, high-quality ML use case company-wide. She is also adopting the philosophy of data and ML, building an Intelligent Sales Engagement platform enabling sales and client success partners to focus on engaging crucial leads driving 2B$ revenue. Padma's past companies include Expedia, where she was an Engineering Manager for Marketplace Dynamics and a Staff Software Engineer for Travel Partner Group. She holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.