About

Sriram Hota is an accomplished leader in the field of data and cloud platform engineering with over 22 years of experience in product and platform building at scale. Currently serving as the Senior Director of Data and Analytics at General Electric, he is responsible for driving data platform architecture, modernization, and building next-gen cloud-based platforms. He is a seasoned leader who has successfully managed legacy systems, migrated to cloud-based platforms, and integrated DevOps practices to enable business-aligned engineering functions. Sriram has a proven track record of building and leading high-impact teams, driving architecture blueprints, and delivering successful digital transformations at scale. He is skilled in setting up capabilities and foundations for products and platforms from scratch and creating best and relevant engineering hygiene and enablers to ensure agility of engineering organizations. He is a people-oriented leader who inspires, coaches, motivates, empowers, and enables his team members to achieve their career goals. Throughout his career, Sriram has engaged in solving multimillion-dollar business problems and has developed scalable data architecture and self-serve analytics applications that are highly available, fault-tolerant, monitored, open-source-based, and distributed in nature. He has led interfaces with internal and external business and engineering stakeholders, and he has experience working with large teams and complex goals. Sriram has held leadership positions at various renowned organizations such as Maersk Digital, [24]7.ai, Yahoo!, Supervalu, Party Gaming, and Euclid. He has also served as the Head of Data Engineering at SpiceJet and Head of Engineering at a startup focused on agriculture digitization. Sriram holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Telecommunications, Computer Engineering, and Microcomputers and Microprocessors from IETE, New Delhi, and an Advanced Studies in Internet Technology degree in Java, Database, Java Scripts, and Web Servers from Software Technology Groups. His technical expertise includes data engineering, AWS, AI, ETL, DevOps, and senior software engineering. With over 20 years of relevant experience, Sriram is a highly skilled and accomplished leader who has made significant contributions to the field of data and cloud platform engineering.