Kedar Parikh

Experience

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  CDACINDIA

  Nov 2004 - Apr 2005

  Technical Associate

  Worked on a research Natural Language Processing and Machine translation project.

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  Abuzz Oxfordcaps

  Apr 2005 - Mar 2006

  Software Engineer - Mobile Gaming

  Developed mobile games and Applications for Indian and overseas clients. Have developed application for Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Samsung, Siemens etc.

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  Netcore Cloud

  Mar 2006 - Jul 2009

  Assistant Manager - Mobility

  Netcore Solutions is known for its various innovative products and services in the messaging and the mobile space. Netcore's umbrella brand MyToday served more than 15 million sms everyday to a user base of over 4million, making it the BIGGEST non-operator a2p player in the country. As part of Mobility division I have played an instrumental role in creating benchmark mobile products and services.Responsibilities:1. Successful in leading a team of 6 engineers for development, support and maintenance of various projects like Delivery Module, DM Tools, Payment Portal, PSMW Reports.2. Requirement Analysis, Project Estimation, Design, Development, Automation, Unit testing, Performance and load testing, Code reviews, Release management, Training, Application support, Client and Vendor management and Build Automation.3. Database Administration, Tuning, Archiving and Partitioning. Show less

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  MSCI Inc.

  Jul 2009 - Jun 2015

  MSCI Inc. is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to investors globally, including asset managers, banks, hedge funds and pension funds. MSCI products and services include indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and governance tools.Team lead with team size of: 3 to 9Responsibilities:1. In Production lead role: Increasing production stability, Implementation of processes and change management. Hardware sizing.2. Developing solutions for index construction and portfolio analytics across equities, ETFs, Mutual Funds, Commodities, Futures, Options and Real estate.3. Part of the Core-Technical committee playing a role of Solution Architect.4. Handling everything from Requirement Analysis to deployment and support.5. Recruiting the right talent.Key Projects:1. Economic Exposure Indices- aim to reflect the performance of companies with significant exposure to specific regions or countries, regardless of their domicile. The indexes capture an alternative approach to categorizing the global equity universe according to the geographic distribution of a company’s revenues.2. Global Identifier System stores and maintains market identifiers and asset characteristics for all assets that the firm wishes to cover. The system currently covers 500k asset across 11 different asset classes 3. Vendor Data ETL pipeline manages the flow of vendor data to the models and products for various risk computations and analytics. Show less

  • Senior Associate - Data Management

    Jan 2012 - Jun 2015

  • Associate

    Jul 2009 - Feb 2012
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  Netcore Cloud

  Jul 2015 - now

  Product Architect, Product Head - Netcore Smartech and PepiPost Martech | Analytics | Machine LearningHeading Product Management and Machine Learning Teams at Smartech. Architecting and Building India's leading full-spectrum omni-channel marketing automation solution. Built realtime event processing system capable of processing 4 Billion events / day and scale linearly on demand. Heading the Machine Learning team and Solving challenging problems on Big Data and Analytics.

  • Chief Product Officer

    May 2022 - now

  • Senior Vice President - Product Management

    Apr 2020 - May 2022

  • Group Vice President - Product Management

    Apr 2018 - Mar 2020

  • AVP Engineering

    Jul 2015 - Mar 2018
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  Internet and Mobile Association of India

  Feb 2019 - Aug 2022

  Honorary Member of the Committee on AI and BigData