Prashant Pawar
Head - Data And Analytics Practice
Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area India
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Top SchoolPrashant Pawar is a seasoned data and analytics leader with 25+ years of global experience who currently heads the Data & Cloud CoE at Nihilent, driving enterprise-scale AI and data transformations across Retail, Manufacturing, Energy, Financial Services, and CPG. He builds and scales Data & AI practices, architects AI-first platforms (LLMs, RAG, agentic AI), and designs semantic layers and knowledge systems that tie technology investments directly to measurable business outcomes. Prashant has a track record of delivering modern data platforms (lakehouse, data mesh), operationalizing enterprise AI use cases, and establishing partnerships with Microsoft, Databricks, AWS, and Snowflake to accelerate delivery. Previously he led global teams and large KPI and ML-driven initiatives at TMF Group and Wipro, and has hands-on experience with geospatial analytics from a consulting stint using NASA Earth Observation data. He combines strategic vision and practice-building with practitioner-level experience in DataOps/MLOps and upskilling large organizations in AI and LLMs.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at COEP Technological UniversityExecutive Master of Technology Management, Technology Management, Executive Master of Technology Management, Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology
Hindi, MarathiGithub contributions (5)
IndiaWikiFiles/Maharashtra
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
IndiaWikiFiles/Kerala
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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