Surya Putchala has been an entrepreneur and has incubated ZettaMine Technologies as its founding CEO. Over the last two decades, he provided thought-leading consulting solutions in the areas of business intelligence, data warehousing, data management and analytics to Fortune 500 clients. He achieved demonstrable results for many clients through consulting and solving complex decision-making environments. Currently the vision behind the comprehensive Data Science Platform called “ZettaMine”, he architected, earlier, commercial analytical applications for product MDM (epaCUBE) and Procurement Optimization (SolPro). He has helped many large system integration programs achieve productivity benefits through creating smart solutions and accelerators.

Surya has a tremendous zeal to create analytics products that bring significant improvements in business performance. He is passionate about areas related to Data Science, Big Data, High Performance Cluster Computing and Algorithms. His current interests are building customer solutions in Data Science (Machine Learning, Statistical Analysis, and Natural Language Processing), Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Storm, NoSQL), Technology Transformations (Strategy, Value Articulation, Architecture, Assessments, Portfolio Analysis and Rationalization), Information Management and Innovation.

Wearing several hats such as Vice President of TDWI (India Chapter), Gardener of Hyderabad Hadoop User Group, Founder of Hyderabad Data Science Group, he constantly endeavors to evangelize the adoption of quantitative techniques for decision making in various verticals. He believes analytics should be extensively utilized in both businesses and in society to create effective systems and has direct impact on better service delivery and customer experience. He has held senior leadership roles with firms such as GE Capital, Cognizant, Accenture and HCL. He has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from S V University and a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.