Summary
Sanket Patil is a Chief Data Strategy Officer with 14+ years of post-PhD experience building NLP, machine learning, and large-scale data products that turn noisy public data into actionable insights for retailers and brands. He combines deep academic roots in distributed systems and network design with hands-on engineering—from prototyping ML algorithms and product-matching backends to architecting real-time data pipelines using Big Data stacks like Cassandra and Storm. At DataWeave he has spanned product, strategy, and technical leadership roles, often wearing the startup generalist hat to ship early systems, drive GTM, and lead small high-performance teams. Previously he led NLP efforts at Reverie and built analytics for telephony at Knowlarity, bringing a knack for turning research-grade ideas into production-ready features. Outside work he engages with sustainable agriculture through a permaculture-focused collective, reflecting a practical, systems-minded curiosity beyond software.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
PhD Network Design and Analysis Distributed Algorithms, PhD Network Design and Analysis Distributed Algorithms at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Kannada, English, Hindi