Dr. Venkata Pingali is the Co-Founder and CEO of Scribble Data, a venture-backed ML Data Products company with offices in US, Canada and India. Scribble has customers across sectors such as fintech, e-commerce, and edtech. Dr. Pingali is well regarded in the community as an expert, and was featured in a number of forums on data, ML, privacy, technology, and startups. He has a BTech from IIT Mumbai and PhD from USC. Outside work, Dr. Pingali is interested in geopolitics, history, and economics.
Experience
Scribble Data
Co-Founder
October 2016 – Present (8 years 4 months)
Bangalore
Scribble Data focuses on Pension Risk Transfer and Benefits segments ofInsurance and Asset Management verticals in US/Canada/UK. We work onend-to-end multi-step collaborative workflows to enhance productivity, enableactuarial work, and improve operations. We partner with Insurance firmsand asset managers that are transforming the industry by re-imagining thebusiness and the role of technology.Scribble Data’s flagship product,Hasper, is a GenAI data products platform. Ithas been designed to implement internal facing data products with complex
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workflows that combine ML, LLM, and domain and low time to value. It is afactory to help churn out dozens of these products. We are an awesome partner, employer, and community member. Talk to us!#insurance #prt #pensions #genai #dataproducts #ml #llm #security #privacy
Startups
Advisor
2019 – Present (6 years)
Bengaluru Area, India
I help startups, in individual capacity, with product, technical, and data advisethat is constructive, grounded, and valuable.
FourthLion Technologies
VP, Analytics
August 2013 – February 2016 (2 years 7 months)
My team handles end-to-end data and analytical needs for major politicalcampaigns (Nandan Nilekani for Bangalore South, Maharashtra CM PrithvirajChavan’s state level and assembly level) and large corporate customers forFourthLion. Our effort covers data wrangling, analytical tooling (including productdevelopment), statistical modeling, and story telling. The general philosophy of analytics team I lead and Fourthlion team is do whatit takes – innovativeness, speed, simplicity, robustness – to achieve customerdelight.
eLuminos
Founder and CEO
September 2012 – August 2014 (2 years)
eLuminos’ primary product is a cloud-based secure low-cost energy-centricintelligence platform. Our platform helps monitor and optimize business operations by providingintelligence derived from existing energy meters, event logs, and othersensor data. We apply advanced statistical modeling and machine learning
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techniques to derive realtime insights and value from pre-existing data andinstrumentation.Our platform is suitable for applications in the connected devices world. Ourcustomers are primarily industrial and commercial consumers of energy. Theyuse the platform and the applications sitting on top to monitor, analyze, andoptimize a variety of systems including power system, production equipment,and assets such as buildings.
An Industrial R&D Lab
Scientist
September 2010 – September 2012 (2 years 1 month)
* Helped architect a solution for Unique ID Project (UID) (Peta-byte scale national biometric database for India)* Internal consulting on scalable systems design * Helping develop new research directions involving UID (machine learning,security, infrastructure optimization)* Developed opensource python infrastructure for UID applications (http://github.com/pingali) * UID application stack design * Smart Meter Data Analytics (for a large Indian Power company)* Crowd-sourcing platform design (for indic language translation )Keywords: UIDAI, Hadoop, Datacenter, Biometrics, Continuous optimization,SEDA, Pentaho & Weka, Python, Django, AWS, human computation, energyanalytics
USC Information Sciences Institute
Post-Doctoral Researcher
May 2009 – August 2010 (1 year 4 months)
I am looking at how we can bring security products and services ontocommercial innovation curve through new technology (application architecture)and social media.I am also looking at emerging space of carbon information science – ITapplications in the environmental domain.
Asha for Education
Volunteer
2003 – 2009 (6 years)
I helped with general organizational and project-related coordination at thechapter and the global level. I worked with Asha volunteers, chapters, andpartners to start and run a new focus group on children of sex workers inIndia. We provided project due diligence, crisis support for partners, trainingworkshops, and annual conferences.
USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
Ph.D
August 2001 – December 2008 (7 years 5 months)
I focused on architectural issues in the Internet. My dissertation investigatedsystem design with imperfect information, and addressed one specific probleminstance – renumbering of large networks. It touched upon a number of areas -large scale system design, economics, complexity, and innovation.Apart from my thesis, I worked on a variety of projects involving mobility,network performance, next generation Internet, virtual internet, protocol design,and security.
University of Utah
MS
1999 – 2001 (2 years)
I worked on optimization approaches reduce impact of memory latency onhigh performance applications such as ray tracing and databases. It involvedmodeling cost structures of modern processors, and understanding memoryaccess patterns in applications.
Cabletron Systems
Sr. Software Engineer
1997 – 1999 (2 years)
I worked on maintenance of a network management platform calledSPECTRUM (later called Aprisma). I was a moduie leader for the reportingtool, and worked closely with the support and the release teams.
ZeitNet India
Sr. Software Engineer
1996 – 1997 (1 year)
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I worked initially on low level ATM driver code and emerging standards suchas MPOA.
Education
University of Southern California
Doctor of Philosophy – PhD
University of Southern California
PhD, Computer Networks · (2001 – 2008)
University of Utah
MS, Computer Science · (1999 – 2001)
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
B.Tech, Computer Science · (1992 – 1996)
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
