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Shanker VR
Technologist - AI / ML | Gen AI | RAG | NLP | Azure AI | Semantic Search | Ranking
About
Shanker Valipireddy is a Principal Data Engineer at Western Digital with over 17 years of professional experience in the IT industry. He is a Senior Architect with a passion for Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Science, Machine Learning, Visual Analytics, and Full Stack development. Shanker has successfully built and scaled small and large product teams, implemented large-scale data and analytics solutions, and conducted AI/Big Data product research and innovation. He has the ability to bridge technology and business, work with clients, and provide Technical and Thought Leadership. Shanker's specialties and interest areas include AI with expertise in TensorFlow, Tensorboard, PyTorch, Paddle, NIVIDIA GPU Cluster, Resnet, ImageNet, and OpenCV. He is also proficient in Inception and Training the models for Image/Text/Video analytics. Additionally, he has extensive experience in Big Data with Hadoop Distributions (Cloudera | Hortonworks | MapR | Amazon EMR), Java, J2EE, Python, Scala, Shell scripting, Oozie, Pig, Spark, Storm, Kafka, Splunk, Google Analytics, Streaming, Hive, Impala, Cassandra, Kafka, Presto, MLLib, PySpark, Pandas, and Numpy. Shanker is also skilled in Cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Openstack, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure. Furthermore, Shanker has experience working with Data warehouse/Databases such as Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and Postgres, and No SQL Data stores like Cassandra, MongoDB, and HBase. He is also proficient in BI and Visualization tools like Tableau and D3.js and Frontend UI technologies like AngularJs, HTML, and CSS. Shanker's specialties include Full stack Development. Shanker has attended various training and certification programs, including AI/Tensorflow/ElasticSearch training, Coursera Blockchain certified professional, MongoDB (NoSQL Database) Certified Java Developer, Cloudera Hadoop/Big Data, IBM Big Insights technical training course, and Apache Spark Certified from eDX/Berkeley. He is also certified in Advanced Business Analytics using R from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Scalable Machine Learning Using Spark Certified from eDX/Berkeley, Apache Cassandra Certified Developer, and Apache Cassandra Certified Administrator. Shanker has previously worked with Cisco as a Big Data Architect and Franklin Templeton as a Big Data Technical Lead/Manager. He holds
Education
• illinois institute of technology
Companies
• western digital
• cisco
• franklin templeton
• blackstone
• kone
• sony
• lehman brothers
• ubs
• empire bluecross blueshield
• computer factory india pvt ltd
Experience
19.8 Years
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Experience
Senior Manager, Technologist - AI/ML
western digital | Milpitas, California, United States
2021 - Present
Manager, Principal Engineer - AI/ML, Big Data
western digital | San Jose, California, United States
2016 - 2021
Lead /Architect -ML, Big Data and Java
franklin templeton | Dublin, California, United States
2010 - 2014
Software Application Developer
computer factory india pvt ltd | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2003 - 2004
Skills
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5G
Agile Methodologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
analytics
Apache Kafka
Apache Spark
Apache Storm
architecture
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Autonomous driving
Autonomous Vehicles
Azure
Big Data
Big Data Analytics
Blockchain
Cassandra
Cloud Computing
Computer Vision
Data Analytics
Data Architecture
Data Engineering
Data Infrastructure
Data Lakes
Data Privacy
Data Science
Deep Learning
docker
Edge Computing
ElasticSearch
Enterprise Architecture
Ethereum
finance
Generative AI
Geth
Hadoop
HBase
Healthcare
Hive
Hyperledger
Internet of Things (IoT)
IT Management
Java Enterprise Edition
Large Language Models (LLM)
Leadership
Machine Learning
Machine Learning (ML)
Manufacturing
Microservices
Microsoft Azure
MongoDB
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Networking
open source
operations
Predictive Analytics
Presto
PrivaceraCloud - SaaS-Based Data Security and
Product Development
Project Management
PySpark
Python
Python (Programming Language)
Recommendation system
Remix
Research
Research Scientist
Risk Management
Scala
Search
security
Senior Software Engineer
Solidity
Solr
SQL
storage
Storage Systems
Strategic Planning
Supervised Learning
Team Building
tensorflow
The Databricks Lakehouse Platform
Truffle
Unsupervised Learning
Vision
Contact Details
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illinois institute of technology
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2023 - 2025
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Shanker VR's tenure in his workplace is 3.17 years
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Shanker VR's total experience is 19.83 years
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Shanker VR has attended illinois institute of technology
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Shanker VR has worked with western digital, western digital, cisco, franklin templeton, blackstone, kone, sony, lehman brothers, ubs, empire bluecross blueshield, computer factory india pvt ltd
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Shanker VR has skills in 5G, Agile Methodologies, Amazon Web Services (AWS), analytics, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark and more.
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