Abhijit Pawar is a VP of Engineering based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 20+ years of hands-on and leadership experience building distributed, revenue-driving data and ML platforms. He has scaled geographically dispersed teams and led multi-million dollar technology initiatives across advertising and media companies like GroupM, Xaxis, Martin DSP, and WPP, while maintaining a strong principal-engineer mindset. Deep expertise in Big Data (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop), ML/AI, and GCP informs his focus on architecting scalable, cost-effective cloud solutions that support global operations. Known for pairing technical rigor with strategic business alignment, he has a track record of turning complex data problems into measurable ROI and accelerating product delivery. An advocate for talent development, he blends architectural mentorship with a culture of continuous learning to retain top engineering talent. Notably, his background spans low-level systems work (Linux kernel, device drivers) through large-scale distributed analytics, giving him rare breadth from kernel to cloud.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management Business Strategies, Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management Business Strategies at SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur
B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering Computer Science, B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering Computer Science at Shivaji University
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