Sandeep U
Chief Data Architect and Head of Data Platform Engineering, Intuit

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Sandeep Uttamchandani is the hands-on chief data architect and head of data platform engineering at Intuit, where he’s leading the cloud transformation of the big data analytics, ML, and transactional platform used by 3M+ small business users for financial accounting, payroll, and billions of dollars in daily payments. Previously, Sandeep held engineering roles at VMware and IBM and founded a startup focused on ML for managing enterprise systems. Sandeep’s experience uniquely combines building enterprise data products and operational expertise in managing petabyte-scale data and analytics platforms in production for IBM’s federal and Fortune 100 customers. Sandeep has received several excellence awards. He has over 40 issued patents and 25 publications in key systems conference such as VLDB, SIGMOD, CIDR, and USENIX. Sandeep is a regular speaker at academic institutions and conducts conference tutorials for data engineers and scientists. He advises PhD students and startups, serves as program committee member for systems and data conferences, and was an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Storage. He blogs on LinkedIn and his personal blog, Wrong Data Fabric. Sandeep holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.