Ananya Ghosh Chowdhury
Founder of AIBoardroom: Shaping the Future of AI Innovation | Data and AI Architect at Microsoft | Startup Advisor & Career Mentor
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Seattle, USA
I am Ananya Ghosh Chowdhury, a Data and AI Architect at Microsoft with a passion for revolutionizing strategies using AI and advanced analytics. I bring expertise in cloud architecture, machine learning, and data engineering. With experience at top companies like Microsoft and Amazon, I thrive on designing and implementing innovative solutions. #AIArchitect #DataExpert #InnovationDriven
Senior AI Fellow, AI 2030
April 2024 - Present
- AI 2030 is an initiative aimed at harnessing the transformative power of AI to benefit humanity while minimizing its potential negative impact
- The initiative is driven by the belief that individuals from all backgrounds and with diverse perspectives can drive positive change and ensure AI's positive impact on society
- The initiative addresses various aspects of responsible AI, including governance, regulations, industry-specific frameworks, principles, best practices, and cutting-edge tools and solutions
- The initiative is driven by the belief that individuals from all backgrounds and with diverse perspectives can drive positive change and ensure AI's positive impact on society
- The initiative addresses various aspects of responsible AI, including governance, regulations, industry-specific frameworks, principles, best practices, and cutting-edge tools and solutions
Harvard Business Review Advisory Council Member, Harvard Business Review
March 2024 - Present
- Deliver significant insights that influence content and deepen the comprehension of management and leadership ideas from HBR and beyond
- This Council provides a forum for active engagement, knowledge exchange, and joint progress in our grasp of the corporate world
- Excited to embark on this cooperative adventure
- This Council provides a forum for active engagement, knowledge exchange, and joint progress in our grasp of the corporate world
- Excited to embark on this cooperative adventure
Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
August 2022 - Present
Greater Seattle Area
- Enterprise AI strategy, Solutions Architecture
- Advise Microsoft’s Major and Strategic customers design enterprise grade solutions leveraging AI, ML and analytical technologies
- Work closely with Microsoft account team and key customer stake holders to develop strategy and achieve business goals
- Advise Microsoft’s Major and Strategic customers design enterprise grade solutions leveraging AI, ML and analytical technologies
- Work closely with Microsoft account team and key customer stake holders to develop strategy and achieve business goals
Data Engineer, Amazon
December 2021 - August 2022
Seattle, Washington, United States
Advisor, Analytics, CVS Health
July 2020 - December 2021
New York
- Managed and worked with a team of Data analysts and data engineers to build a customer focused event structure by creating data models, designing data lake architecture analyzing Front Store data in Databricks using Python, PySpark, SQL, Scala to drive customer analytics.
- Developed, implemented and automated data-engineering processes that aggregates and prepares data that drives development of key financial metrics dashboard to be reviewed by senior leadership, and supports implementation of personalized couponing strategy.
- Automated a data-driven pipeline that loads incremental data in the Data Lake and triggers Databricks notebooks, ensuring that processes are run on a scheduled cadence, improving performance, reducing required man-hours by 70% and saving cost of approximately $100K per year
- Implemented a data-engineering pipeline that generates customer impressions, sales, promotions data etc. against spend across different media channels on a weekly basis over past 3 years, to drive development of Media-mix models and measure the impact of marketing campaigns
- Strategized, designed, developed and maintained a data asset that creates a historical view of the customer behavior and sales, that helps other teams to identify trends, patterns, gaps in customer behavior and drive predictive analytics, marketing analytics, reporting, dashboarding efforts.
- Developed, implemented and automated data-engineering processes that aggregates and prepares data that drives development of key financial metrics dashboard to be reviewed by senior leadership, and supports implementation of personalized couponing strategy.
- Automated a data-driven pipeline that loads incremental data in the Data Lake and triggers Databricks notebooks, ensuring that processes are run on a scheduled cadence, improving performance, reducing required man-hours by 70% and saving cost of approximately $100K per year
- Implemented a data-engineering pipeline that generates customer impressions, sales, promotions data etc. against spend across different media channels on a weekly basis over past 3 years, to drive development of Media-mix models and measure the impact of marketing campaigns
- Strategized, designed, developed and maintained a data asset that creates a historical view of the customer behavior and sales, that helps other teams to identify trends, patterns, gaps in customer behavior and drive predictive analytics, marketing analytics, reporting, dashboarding efforts.
Data Engineer, University of Connecticut School of Business
February 2019 - May 2020
Hartford
- Analyzed data using SQL, PySpark, Python, perfomed ETL in Azure Databricks, created visualizations in Tableau, drawing meaningful insights
- Designed end-to-flow data flows, handled big data in Azure, worked on the entire data management life cycle from data ingestion to visualization
- Migrated data from on-premises SQL Database to Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Data Factory, designed optimized database architecture
- Been part of datawarehouse implementations using Azure SQL Datawarehouse, SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage(ADLS), Azure Data Factory
- Designed end-to-flow data flows, handled big data in Azure, worked on the entire data management life cycle from data ingestion to visualization
- Migrated data from on-premises SQL Database to Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Data Factory, designed optimized database architecture
- Been part of datawarehouse implementations using Azure SQL Datawarehouse, SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage(ADLS), Azure Data Factory
Senior Consultant, PwC
May 2018 - January 2019
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Integrated Azure Active Directory Authentication with an ASP
- net core WebApp, facilitating secured login and authorized access to the application
- Worked with Partners, SLTs creating Tableau visualizations of past 10 years project data, analyzing sales vs profit trends; identifying gaps
- Led a team of data-engineers and developers, to streamline a sales-service application that increased productivity, customer satisfaction by 50%
- Deployed applications with Azure AppServices, created Deployment Slots in staging and production, maintained code in Azure DevOps Server, Git
- net core WebApp, facilitating secured login and authorized access to the application
- Worked with Partners, SLTs creating Tableau visualizations of past 10 years project data, analyzing sales vs profit trends; identifying gaps
- Led a team of data-engineers and developers, to streamline a sales-service application that increased productivity, customer satisfaction by 50%
- Deployed applications with Azure AppServices, created Deployment Slots in staging and production, maintained code in Azure DevOps Server, Git
Consultant, PwC
January 2017 - April 2018
Kolkata
- Designed database architecture for a Migration phase of a retail client having 0
- 4M customers by customizing the existing Data warehouse
- Been a Product Owner of a Web API based-solution that stored data in Azure SQL Server, BLOB storages for SLTs a retail client, to track inventory, manage resources, monitor cash flows; increasing revenue by 40%
- Configured Azure point to site VPN for secure remote access connectivity to cloud based workloads in Azure VN authenticating through Azure AD
- Created and configured ETL jobs using Pentaho to fetch data from APIs, tested in Post Man, cleaned and stored data in Azure BLOB Storages
- Supervised database designs, set up CrushFTP, extracting, cleaning, transforming data, scheduled routine jobs using SQL Server Agent in SSMS
- 4M customers by customizing the existing Data warehouse
- Been a Product Owner of a Web API based-solution that stored data in Azure SQL Server, BLOB storages for SLTs a retail client, to track inventory, manage resources, monitor cash flows; increasing revenue by 40%
- Configured Azure point to site VPN for secure remote access connectivity to cloud based workloads in Azure VN authenticating through Azure AD
- Created and configured ETL jobs using Pentaho to fetch data from APIs, tested in Post Man, cleaned and stored data in Azure BLOB Storages
- Supervised database designs, set up CrushFTP, extracting, cleaning, transforming data, scheduled routine jobs using SQL Server Agent in SSMS
Programmer Analyst, Cognizant
February 2014 - January 2017
Kolkata
- Developed a product that consumes Restful webservices, binds data to browser using JQuery, JS and generates architecture diagram of any project
- Developed an e-commerce system for an online food ordering service using ASP
- net, MVC, Entity Framework, JavaScript, JSON, AJAX, SQL Server
- Deployed applications with Azure App Services, created Deployment Slots in staging and production environment, enabling Auto-Deployment
- Developed an e-commerce system for an online food ordering service using ASP
- net, MVC, Entity Framework, JavaScript, JSON, AJAX, SQL Server
- Deployed applications with Azure App Services, created Deployment Slots in staging and production environment, enabling Auto-Deployment
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Education
MS in business analytics and Program management, Analytics
2019 - 2020
University of Connecticut School of Business
Electronics & Communication Engineering, Engineering
2009 - 2013
West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata