APPLIED DATA TECH - Key Persons

Amit Chakraborty

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Founding Team
  • Chief Solution Architect
  • Technology Leader
Amit is an experienced technology leader with consistent experience in development of technology products and driving market adoption in Data, Cloud and mobile domains. He is proficient in technology architecture, solutions engineering and delivery management. Prior to Applied Data Tech he worked as Director Data Plaftorm with Visa Inc. where he was part of the leadership team that helped augment the company's 1000 node Hadoop amd Machine Learning cluster with Data Security and GDPR compliance.Prior to that he was CTO of EnableM Technologies where he led the building up of cloud based mobile first adaptive learning platform on a SaaS model. The product was awarded the best education product at MWC, Barcelona 2014 and was acquired by a UK based PE group. Earlier to that he worked as Development Director in Location based Analytics for Rolta Ltd. Prior to that he worked as Engineering Manager for Nokia( Symbian) and in various capacities with Motorola and Openwave . Amit holds a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology. He has worked extensively in the following areas: Scalable, high availability, multi-tenanted SaaS solutions Analytics- as- Service solutions on private and hybrid cloud Data aggregation from disparate sources Information governance and data security Technologies Spark-Kafka Streaming analytics Multi protocol gateways for IOT Cloud platforms: Amazon AWS / Microsoft Azure/ Google Cloud Platform

Dr. Joseph Barr

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Founding Team
  • Chief Data Advisor
Dr. Joseph Barr, "Joe", is a seasoned data scientist who specializes in building statistical, machine learning and econometrics models to solve business problems. He has 20-year track record of providing value to customers in government, healthcare, energy/utilities and finance.Joe's experience includes banking/financial services, mortgage/housing, healthcare and energy/utilities. Joe most recently worked as Chief Analytics Office for Home Union, heading its Analytics initiatives in the Real Estate analytics space. His former roles include chief scientist at ID Analytics (a subsidiary of LifeLock), CTO at Chi Analytics, chief scientist at ProLogic, as well as a consultant and entrepreneur. Joe is also a visiting scholar at the University of California Irvine and an Adjunct Professor at San Diego State University. Joe is the author of several research articles in mathematics and computer science. He holds a doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of New Mexico.

Santhosh Nair

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Investor
  • Seasoned Technologist
Santhosh Nair is a seasoned technologist with over 20 years of experience in the software development, QA and technology leadership. He had held several positions such as Director, Project Manager and Principal Software Engineer in MNCs such as Vestas Wind Power Systems, NetHawk Networks etc and had worked as Consultant at Motorola and Sycamore Networks. He started his career with BHEL and had worked in MNCs such as Siemens, Wipro and Lucent as well as Start-ups like Telsima Communictions and Alepo Technologies. Santhosh holds an MS degree from IIT Madras.