Curriculum Vitae
Career timeline of Hari Prasad Piridi — Director of Data Science at Walmart, former Lead Data Scientist at Microsoft, with education from BITS Pilani and technical skills in ML, GNNs, and LLMs.
Contact Information
Hari Prasad Piridi
Director, Data Science
hariprasad.piridi@gmail.com Bangalore, India
Professional Summary
Director of Data Science at Walmart GlobalTech and Ph.D. Research Scholar at BITS Pilani. Leads the Applied AI Catalog team building ML systems for search, personalization, and product intelligence at scale. Research focuses on Graph Neural Networks, LLMs, and Recommender Systems.
Experience
Director, Data Science
Walmart GlobalTech
Leading and building multiple data science teams in the Catalog - Applied AI Team.
- Providing technical roadmap and leadership to a team of data scientists and engineers
- Advising leadership team on AI Strategy, roadmap and enterprise-wide deployment
- Work cross-functionally with Search, Personalization and UGC organizations to improve customer experience
Lead Data & Applied Scientist
Microsoft India R&D
Led multiple work streams across Cloud Supply Chain and Capacity Planning Data Science.
- Led Automated Quota Management (AQM), Offer Restriction Effect (OFE) and Cloud Demand Forecasting in CSCP
- Led, hired, managed and mentored a team of applied machine learning scientists and data engineers
- Set direction and vision for Data Science team to solve key data-led business problems
- Designed and architected solutions using Big Data and Data Science stack
- Collaborated cross-functionally with Microsoft Research and Microsoft Partner organizations
Consultant
Merrill Lynch
- Development of .NET based web applications
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies
- Development of Java based web applications
Education
Ph.D. in Spatio-Temporal Graph Representation Learning using GNNs (Ongoing)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
- Research: Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks
- CSIS Responsible Technologies Research Group
M.Tech in Data Science and Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
- CGPA: 9.73
B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering
Acharya Nagarjuna University
- First Class
Skills
Leadership & Strategy Expert
Team Building Technical Roadmap AI Strategy Cross-functional Collaboration Stakeholder Management Mentoring
Machine Learning & AI Expert
Agentic AI Generative AI Large Language Models Graph Neural Networks Recommender Systems
Programming & Frameworks Expert
Python PySpark PyTorch PyTorch Geometric SparkML Scikit-Learn SQL
Big Data & Cloud Expert
Databricks Spark Streaming Azure GCP CosmosDB SQL Server
MLOps & Infrastructure Advanced
Docker Kubernetes MLOps Azure DevOps Azure ML Service CI/CD