Summary
Deeptaanshu Kumar is a Vice President of Data with over a decade of engineering leadership building cloud-native, petabyte-scale data platforms across Fortune 50 firms and high-growth startups. He has led major migrations and platform builds—from Capital One’s 130M+ customer cloud platform to founding The Arena Group’s Data Engineering org and driving enterprise data lakes at Freddie Mac—combining hands-on architecture with executive strategy. Deeptaanshu specializes in AI/ML enablement, streaming and batch Big Data systems (Spark, Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake, Delta Lake) and multi-cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP that power millions of users and billions of insights. He’s known for turning complex technical problems into clear, scalable systems while building high-performing teams rooted in trust and measurable business outcomes. Unusually, he pairs deep technical degrees (CMU, Georgia Tech) with an MBA from Wharton, giving him both research-grade technical depth and commercial product fluency. Currently leading data at Wizard AI, he’s focused on agentic AI commerce use cases and pragmatic MLOps for production-scale intelligence.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Specialization in Artificial Intelligence), Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Specialization in Artificial Intelligence) at Georgia Institute of Technology
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Northwest High School
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Business Administration - MBA, (3 Majors) Business Analytics, Marketing & Operations Management, and Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Master of Business Administration - MBA, (3 Majors) Business Analytics, Marketing & Operations Management, and Entrepreneurship & Innovation at The Wharton School