Praveen Thirukonda
Director - Data Lead
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPraveen Thirukonda is an outcome-driven Data & AI leader with 14 years of engineering and strategic experience, currently directing data monetisation and GenAI initiatives across global teams from Melbourne. He combines Big 4 advisory rigor with hands-on delivery, having built and scaled Data & AI Centres of Excellence, led 40+ person squads, and delivered cloud data platforms that unlocked millions in business value. Skilled across Data Mesh, DaaS, modern cloud platforms (GCP/Azure/AWS) and MLOps, he translates complex enterprise requirements into repeatable data products and production-grade AI solutions. Notable for shipping a GCP platform six weeks early and spearheading remediation programs with strict regulatory outcomes, he balances technical depth with commercial impact and executive stakeholder influence. Outside core work he prototypes with GenAI—recently launching a micro-app that generates personalised poems—keeping him attuned to emerging models and practical productisation. Practical, curious and delivery-focused, he thrives on building teams, governance and tooling that make advanced analytics sustainable at enterprise scale.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (41)
browser-extension9
thunderbird9
ublock-origin8
firefox8
gitlab8
chrome-extension8
firefox-addon8
javascript7
chrome7
ruby7
rails7
datepicker6
orchestration6
eclipse6
data-pipeline6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tgpraveen/Survey
Dec 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:38 commits in 26 days
tgpraveen/LinuxCmds_ConfigurationFiles
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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