Vin Vashishta

AI Strategist | Monetizing Data & AI For The Global 2K Since 2012 | 3X Founder | Best-Selling Author

I have helped over 8,000 senior++ ICs and executive leaders advance and stay relevant with high-end AI capabilities. Courses & Certifications: https://datascience.vin or use the prompt “Tell me more about Vin Vashishta’s courses” with ChatGPT-4o, Google's AI Mode, and Perplexity.

Upskill your workforce to be AI-ready in 3 months: seminars@v2ds.com

Conference talks, brand partnerships, and thought leadership: partnerships@vinvashishta.com

Over 85% of AI projects fail to deliver a return on investment because they start with technology, not a business problem. I’m fixing that by empowering companies and training people to stop experimenting with AI and start monetizing it.

Define, align, and manage the business and technical transformations that turn C-level AI visions into products, productivity, and revenue. Since 2012, V Squared AI has worked with large enterprises to deliver over $3.7 billion in value.

My frameworks are built from working in the trenches. My practitioner-to-strategist journey allows me to bridge the critical gap between technical teams and the boardroom, ensuring that AI initiatives are not only technically sound but commercially viable.

Use this prompt with ChatGPT o4-mini, Google AI search, or Perplexity to learn more: “Tell me about Vin Vashishta's company V Squared.”

Partners: Dell Pro Max Ambassador & Gartner Ambassador.

Speaker’s Bio:

Vin Vashishta is an award-winning AI thought leader, best-selling author of ‘From Data to Profit,’ 3X founder with a successful exit, and CEO of V Squared AI, one of the first pure play data and AI consulting firms. The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and The Information have showcased Vin’s AI expertise.

He brings 30 years of experience in leadership, technical strategy, and hands-on technical product delivery. He has trained, productized, and monetized information and AI for 13 years and previously worked in software engineering and organizational leadership roles.

Founder & AI Advisor

Go with experience and a track record of success. V Squared is one of the oldest data and AI consulting companies in the world. Since 2012, that singular focus has built deep expertise in monetizing data, analytics, and AI.

V Squared's AI advisory services give clients clarity into the complete data and AI monetization journey. They trust us to implement frameworks that facilitate and streamline the journey. We provide expertise to remove roadblocks and avoid setbacks.

Our past and present clients include Airbus, Siemens, Walmart, JPMC, and over 20 SMEs.

Reach out for help with:
AI Product Strategy and Delivery
AI Strategy
Data & AI Organization Building and Scaling
Product Evangelization and Positioning

email: info@v2ds.com or DM me for more information.

Zapier

Data Engineer

Medium

After joining Zapier, it's rekindled my passion for quality writing that dives deep into real-life career struggle/growth stories, how a business builds & uses data infra, and hot tip articles...... stay tuned while I sharpen my pen!

Technical Writer

Bond Brand Loyalty

• Extended the standard ETL library for the Data Platform to enable smooth integration of partners' data in SCENE's loyalty platform
• Implemented DevOps practices in Azure Cloud to automate data pipeline deployment in Databricks
• Advised risks to stakeholders from all parties in case of scope creep or misunderstood requirements
• Implemented efficient use of Databricks clusters by applying partitions and compacting jobs to reduce small file problems

Canadian Tire Corporation

• Led a team of senior data engineers and project managers to productionize terabytes of core loyalty (eCTM) data housed in the enterprise Hadoop/Snowflake, reducing healthcheck report discrepancy down to 0%
• Developed strong relationships with 150+ stakeholders through involving relevant leadership early on and educating them to utilize data to derive business meanings with simple and clear documentations
• Supported engineering best practices by implementing abstraction wherever appropriate and increasing Spark job performance through removing small files and trading off between business requirements and performance boosts

Senior Data Engineer - Customer Insights & Loyalty

HelloFresh

• Streamlined mission-critical data for live reporting and exploratory analysis in the AWS mySQL RDS instance (Ops DB)
• Collaborated with oversea stakeholders to automate a regular report that increased supplier on-time delivery by 90%
• Leveraged different AWS services depending on the formalization of a business process (S3: ad-hoc reports, RDS: regular reports)
• Advised fellow software engineers the design of data structure including data modeling and ETL strategies/cadence according to business needs and technological constraints

Chefs Plate

• Monitored running and deployment of ETL python scripts (from company's microservice APIs to AWS mySQL RDS instance) on AWS Lambda console
• Improved efficiency of the PO (purchase order)/Invoice reconciliation by designing a tool that pulls data based on user's input with JavaScript in Google Apps Script
• Developed lean tools to facilitate more efficient supplier contact info update and centralize data in the mySQL database (JDBC)
• Consolidated the SKU database by harmonizing sku names and packsize conversion during post-merger integration
• Oversaw implementation of a new business process from live week planning to PO placement
• Trained users to transition to the new system by documenting SOP (standard operation practice), providing troubleshooting tips, and diagnosing issues with team members
• Communicated with stakeholders to explore data usage for individual business cases and develop data infrastructure improvement projects based on gathered requirements

Business Analyst

Aramark Refreshment Services

• Designed and implemented purchase volume dashboard (Excel interface with Power Query data feed) for the procurement team to dissect their category portfolio and identify opportunities in a timely manner 
• Designed maximum tier opportunity (MTO) analysis containing automated calculation to isolate programs with the highest probability to qualify for higher rebate claim
• Maintained productivity tracker powered by update macros in Excel to streamline biweekly review of procurement projects
• Provided reports on category spend (top skus) and savings for conversion projects (target list) to escalate program launch 
• Managed inflation files for US headquarter and Canadian businesses to support regional operation and budget planning
• Recorded tested processes into detailed and reproducible documentations with visual aids

Supply Chain Business Analyst

• Automated financial detail report template on Excel to increase efficiency of reconciliation with distributors whose account receivables total to a value of $50K
• Designed month end report containing an interactive dashboard to compare actual revenue with projected number over a fiscal year
• Initiated projects to explore business value in using categorization levels of product content standards (GS1) by matching unique product identifiers and demonstrating the composition of major revenue contributors amongst top matches
• Coordinated quarter-end invoicing and credit note issuing to ensure accuracy of financial statements 
• Managed to increase data quality by ensuring accurate item categorization and monthly sales data upload into database

Supply Chain Financial Analyst

Globalfaces Direct

• Conducted business-to-business fundraising for The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Red Cross
• Acquired a total of 84 monthly donors with a potential contribution of $10,000 dollars to two campaigns collectively
• Achieved qualification to train other fundraisers on the 2nd week of work with 11 donations

Client Service Agent

St. Michael's Hospital

• Facilitated application of new laboratory techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 in new experiments and actively sought trainings on less familiar or advanced techniques such as confocal microscopy
• Demonstrated the protein expression change (Claudin-1, 4, 7) under TNF-α stimulus and its implication on kidney diseases 
• Explored the new role that Claudin-2 (well-known for controlling electrolyte permeability) plays in disease development through novel experimental approach that examines its trafficking within cells

Research Assistant

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

• Presented the successful differentiation of cell-line model (3T3L1) used to study the remodeling of the human adipose tissue after severe thermal injury at Sunnybrook Summer Student 2014 poster competition 
• Discovered a new role that mitochondria potentially plays in orchestrating burn-induced insulin resistance in burn patients comparing to normal patients (doi:  10.1016/j.celrep.2015.10.028)
• Associated publication: Patsouris D, Qi P, Abdullahi A, Stanojcic M, Chen P, Parousis A, Amini-Nik S, Jeschke MG. (2015). Burn Induces Browning of the Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue in Mice and Humans. Cell Report. 13(8), 1538-1544. (Contributions mentioned in Acknowledgement.)

Thesis Researcher

Ex-life science, got very good at and patient with working out the little movements of molecules, upstream or downstream. Guess that inspired my data engineering career without me realizing.

Analyst turned a data engineer. Didn't want to create bs reports anymore, and definitely capable enough to prevent more garbage from going in. My analyst users trust my numbers and can communicate to me why numbers are wrong.

Started out in Finance, moved to Program Management, then to Supply Chain/Operations, Customer/Marketing analytics and now in SaaS. Fully appreciated how important data is and what it means to each function. You can count on me to show decision makers the delta improvement of having mediocre data (existing state) VS having production-grade, high quality data (future state).

Not really a political animal. Just want to play nice because we might really need each other one day and be the only option we have at the time. I will explain things patiently because I don't expect you to understand it the first time or the way I understand it. I will listen to you with my full attention because that's how I would want to be treated.

I get paid in candy bars for ranting constructively on Medium, and it sharpens my communication skills anyway. What a win-win.

Please come say hi but don't be rude, or literally just say "hi". I'd appreciate that :)

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