Kiran drives data sciences & advanced analytics projects across sales & marketing, digital,
partner, pricing and e-commerce in his functional role. He also dotted line leads the
Information Innovation Center (IIC) in India which has teams like Master Data Management,
Business Intelligence & Analytics.

Prior to VMware, Kiran headed analytics & data sciences for Sales, Marketing & Customer
at Flipkart and for the e-business & search teams at Dell. During his days at Dell, he was
awarded the 2012 India Innovator of the Year award by Michael Dell in person. He has led
several concept-to-completion projects at VMware, Flipkart & Dell.
Kiran was ranked amongst the top 10 data miners on Kaggle for more than a year. He was
the winner of the KDD 2014 Cup organized by Association for Computing Machinery –
Knowledge, Discovery and Data Mining and was also ranked among the top 10 data
scientists in India in 2015.

A computer science engineer from MSRIT and a post-graduate from Indian Institute of
Management Kozhikode (IIM-K), Kiran is passionate about data sciences at work and
outside of it!