Giri Ramanathan
Senior Director, Data & AI Solutions (Americas)
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolGiri Ramanathan is a seasoned data and AI leader with 18+ years of hands-on engineering and people-building experience, currently serving as Senior Director of Data & AI Solutions (Americas) at Databricks. He has repeatedly built high-impact post-sales, professional services, and support organizations from the ground up across Americas, APJ, India, Costa Rica and Brazil, blending technical depth in Spark, ML and cloud architectures with pragmatic operational design. Giri pioneers Gen-AI initiatives and production-ready AI frameworks (RAG, vector DBs, Agentic AI) that drive measurable productivity and cost savings while partnering tightly with R&D, field engineering and sales. He is as comfortable recruiting and scaling global teams—personally screening thousands of candidates in LATAM—as he is shipping Spark optimizations and support automation that cut operational overhead. A pragmatic innovator, he translates complex research into deployable tools (Databricks Apps, AI Code Assist, Mosaic AI) and has a track record of creating supply/demand models and data-driven org KPIs. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, Giri combines startup founding-team grit with enterprise-scale execution to turn data strategy into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) ECE, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) ECE at Government College of Enginerring, Anna UniversitySchool School, School School at St.Xaviers Higher Secondary SchoolProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vgiri2015/Spark2.0-and-greater
Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:56 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
vgiri2015/ItsMyAvatar.ai
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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