Surya Putchala
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Assessing your cultural and operational fit
Applied AI/ML and Agentic/Gen AI Consultant | Entreprenuer with M&A Exits of $20MM
As Chief of AI Strategy at InvestMates, a fintech startup redefining financial asset management, contributions include crafting AI-driven roadmaps, evaluating build-versus-buy decisions for Generative AI tools, and supporting Series A funding efforts. Expertise spans Generative AI, large language models, and advanced data analytics, ensuring personalized financial solutions for users. With over a decade of experience in AI strategy, data science, and business transformation, efforts at ZettaMine Labs delivered scalable ML solutions that generated significant revenue. Known for fostering innovation, mentoring talent, and establishing Centers of Excellence, the focus remains on empowering organizations to harness AI for sustainable growth and operational excellence.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
M. Tech, Industrial Engineering and Management
January 1, 1989 – January 1, 1991
Sri Venkateswara University
B. Tech, Mechanical Engineering
January 1, 1985 – January 1, 1989
Sri Venkateswara University
SSC, High School
January 1, 1973 – January 1, 1983
InvestMates
Chief (AI Strategy) & Generative AI Specialist
April 1, 2024 – Present
Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
ZettaMine Labs
Co-founder & Chief Data Scientist
April 1, 2018 – Present
Greater Hyderabad Area
Cappius Technologies Inc.
Strategic Advisor & Chief Data Scientist
May 1, 2016 – March 1, 2018
Greater Hyderabad Area
ZettaMine Technologies
Founder & Big Data architect
January 1, 2012 – April 1, 2016
Hyderabad
HCL Technologies
General Manager (BI) & Analytics Expert
January 1, 2010 – December 1, 2011
Accenture
Senior Manager & BI Architect
September 1, 2007 – January 1, 2009
Cognizant
Principal Consultant & BI/DW Specialist
October 1, 2006 – July 1, 2007
Genpact Software
Senior Principal Consultant & BI/DW Subject Matter Expert
February 1, 2004 – September 1, 2006
Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site
epaCUBE
Solutions Architect & Analytics specialist
February 1, 2001 – February 1, 2004
Yokogawa
Consultant & Database Management expert
January 1, 1997 – January 1, 1998
Syntel Inc
Project leader & Software architect
January 1, 1994 – January 1, 1997
ITC (ISD) Limited
Systems Analyst & Software Engineer
January 1, 1991 – January 1, 1993
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site
Personalized App Recommender for Mobile Users
October 1, 2014 – Present
An App store is a digital distribution platform for mobile applications. Every day hundreds of new mobile apps are developed and made available on the App stores. Since, there may be multiple apps stores, many new/old apps will not be visible for the users owing to the traditional listing of Apps based on the total downloads, ratings, popularity etc., Thus, there is a need to enhance the visibility of these applications based on features such as functionality, trending, reviews, category, search characteristics of all users etc.,The aim of this project is to not only recommend app on its characteristics but also recommend them on the basis user characteristics such as his current app portfolio, interests, and propensity for a category of apps. This project will be implemented in two phases - the first phase is “Ranking and Scoring” of the mobile applications. The second phase is to develop a recommender system on the basis of user characteristics, activities and preferences.
A software framework for mobile and cloud platforms
October 1, 2014 – Present
Amongst the recent developments in the Computing, Mobile Technologies are enabling making information and data available to the users without location or temporal constraints. Various business and personal productivity applications are being increasingly deployed on Mobile Platforms. As mobile devices proliferate, there will be an increased emphasis on serving the needs of the mobile user in diverse contexts and environments, which are being called Data products. Mobility also impose significant management challenges for IT organizations as they lose control of user endpoint devices. There is a need for a unified mobile deployment platform or mBaaS (i.e Mobile Backend as a Service) that can integrate various data products and serve new features to all the users of an enterprise. This mBaaS when deployed on the cloud can scale elastically depending on the workload characteristics.
Developing Semantic Analysis from Social Media
October 1, 2014 – Present
To build the Ranking and Scoring Algorithm for Mobile App Recommendation system, there are different parameters have to be taken into the consideration. Aim of this Project is for informing the sentiment of reviews and comments of Mobile Apps. Our new deep learning model is to obtain a suitable representation of text structure and thus make it possible to process texts based on their content of whole sentences based on the sentence structure, meaning of words, phrases, and subsequently also their purpose and consequence, by giving positive points for positive words and negative points for negative words and compute the sentiment based on how words compose the meaning of longer phrases. To implement this project we are using NLP Services such as Tokenization,Tagging parts of speech,Text Summarization,Text Classification and Text Processing.
Authenticity of Credentials claimed by Job Applicants
June 1, 2013 – Present
Currently, developing an algorithm to detect spurious resumes, veracity of claims of credentials int he resume's uploaded by job seekers for a Job Portal. The goal of the project is to get the right job seeker to the right company thus improving the hiring cycle, misfits for a job and the costs of hiring the right candidate. It is beneficial both to the job seeker and the employer. A text Analytics, graphs, recommender methods are being deployed to address this challenging project
Ad Server Platform: Core Learning Algorithms
January 1, 2013 – Present
The businesses are increasing moving their marketing activities from traditional marketing channels to digital marketing channels. This new shift gives an opportunity for the marketing teams to personalize and customize services to any user in question. The Ads are transmitted to match the needs of a specific customer base. Ad Server platforms makes this possible. The Ad Server platforms has access to data related to Users, Stores, User Ad Clicks, Internet Publishers, Advertisers, Campaigns etc., The purpose of this project however is to develop and deploying core learning algorithms for determining Home locations for the users based on the Ad server Clicks and Matching Store locations/Ads for the Users. These Algorithms for the Ad Servers optimizes marketing campaigns and website behavior to improve customer responses and conversions. This Data is not available as an open data, hence there is a need for synthesizing the data. This project also creates the necessary transaction data using Monte Carlo Simulation.
Job Recommender for a Job Portal
November 1, 2012 – Present
This recommender system is developed for a Job portal. Matched the jobs to the job seekers based on skill sets, location, psychometric profile, qualifications and a host of other variables. The data set sizes exceeded 5 TB, We have set up a 6 node Hadoop Cluster. We have used, Solr, Nutch for the indexing and searching. Similarity algorithms for clustering. We are continuously improving the algorithms by including various authenticity factors.
Community Detection in Social Network
March 1, 2012 – Present
In a social network, common characteristics of a set of nodes (location, interests, occupation, etc.,) can be called a community. For law enforcement, a network drawn on the basis of call detail records (CDR) provide a wealth of information that can help to identify suspects, in that they can reveal details as to an individual's relationships with associates, communication, behavior patterns, location data can establish a community of suspects perpetrating a crime. Since, relational databases cannot scale when the hierarchical queries, direct querying is infeasible to detect "network" patterns. The traditional Community detection is essentially clustering (distance or similarity measures). Network data tends to be "discrete", leading to algorithms using the graph property directly (cliques and centrality) in order to detect communities. The objective of this project is to identify a terrorist network whose community property being closely knit sizes between 3 to 10, and uncovering calling patterns as identified by criminal psychologists. There are about 2 Billion Call Data Records (CDR) and 200 Million unique contacts in the network. The approach is to initially eliminate the non-suspects (Big data Processing) and later identifying the suspects (Machine learning and Statistical analysis). We have used 10 Node Hadoop Cluster to process 25 Terabytes of Data using MapReduce and HBase. The Algorithmic treatment involved Community detection and Collaborative filtering. We have used eclectic methods of Graph traversals and visualization.
Generative AI for Everyone
DeepLearning.AI
June 24, 2026 – Present
Oracle 9i DBA
Oracle
June 24, 2026 – Present
The Role of the CEO in Navigating GenAI
Coursera
June 24, 2026 – Present
Oracle 7 DBA
Oracle
June 24, 2026 – Present
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft
June 24, 2026 – Present
Generative AI for Leaders
Vanderbilt University
June 24, 2026 – Present
Setting a Generative AI Strategy
Coursera
June 24, 2026 – Present
Oracle 8i DBA
Oracle
June 24, 2026 – Present
Oracle 8 DBA
Oracle
June 24, 2026 – Present
Cultural Fit Analysis
The candidate has a very diverse project portfolio, ranging from mobile platforms and recommender systems to law enforcement analytics and financial tech. This breadth indicates adaptability and a willingness to tackle varied challenges. However, the recent focus on AI/ML and Generative AI, while valuable, might slightly diverge from a pure ETL engineering role, suggesting a potential overqualification or a desire for a more strategic/architectural role rather than hands-on ETL development. The long tenure in various leadership and entrepreneurial roles suggests a strong drive and initiative.
Soft Skills & Operational Fit
The candidate's extensive leadership and strategic roles suggest strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills. Their experience in establishing Centers of Excellence and mentoring indicates a collaborative and knowledge-sharing approach. The project descriptions, while detailed, could be more concise and outcome-focused for better operational fit assessment.