Summary
Anirudh Menon is a Lead AI Engineer specializing in supply chain and retail ML with over 11 years of experience building production ML and data pipelines across retail, automotive and entertainment. He has led mid-sized teams and managed cross-functional groups of data engineers, scientists and analysts to deliver real-time and batch ML systems on both cloud and on-prem platforms that drive measurable business value. At Target he has shipped AI solutions spanning guest experience, MarTech, and supply chain, combining hands-on architecture, engineering and product thinking. An active open-source and community contributor, he frequently speaks at meetups and hackathons and is a prolific Stack Overflow participant—evidence of his commitment to practical, shareable engineering. Notably, he pairs deep data engineering chops with product-focused ML delivery, making complex pipelines both scalable and impactful.
11 years of coding experience