Summary
Chirag Bhattad is a Senior Manager in Analytics with eight years of experience building and scaling data science products at AB InBev, currently leading the Forecasting & Intelligence program for global volumes. He has delivered high-impact forecasting and hedging solutions—covering 10-year industry forecasts for 110 markets, monthly volume deployment for top 30 markets, and a hedging product protecting $6B of exposure—while founding commodity hedging squads that realized multi-million dollar savings. Equally at home in product and platform work, he led ABI’s first full cloud transition on Azure (Databricks, ADF, Azure ML, AKS) and created ML-driven procurement and auction optimization tools. A proven team builder and change agent, he has grown talent (multiple promotions), secured ~$2.5M in funding for his team, and champions employee experience through community initiatives. Trained at IIT Madras in materials engineering, he brings an analytical, experimental mindset—"If you can't picture it, don't start"—to translate complex models into operational business value.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
High School Degree, Science with Computer Science, High School Degree, Science with Computer Science at Maharishi Vidya Mandir
English, Hindi, Tamil