DATA & AI LEADER

Leading data engineering and AI in the hospitality industry.

Anish Puthuraya
7+
Years in data
$400K+
Saved every year
01 / EXPERIENCE

Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Data & AI Leader
Pyramid Global Hospitality · Boston, MA
2023 to PRESENT

Lead a team of 3 data engineers and partner with the COO and analytics leadership on data strategy.

Rebuilt the enterprise data platform on Microsoft Fabric as a medallion lakehouse, joining Opera, Amadeus, Salesforce and Delphi data.

Moved 250+ Azure workloads from personal logins to managed identities, with no major failures.

Cut cloud costs through an infrastructure audit, and built AI data quality checks that run five times a day.

Associate II

PwC · Bangalore, India
2021 to 2022

Led a two-person Cloud Analytics team for Nordstrom, building inventory tracking.

Tuned Spark clusters for 5x higher efficiency and a 50% cut in infrastructure costs.

Shipped ML models on Azure Databricks that predict claims.

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies · Pune, India
2018 to 2021

Delivered analytics and automation for enterprise clients with Microsoft Power Platform and Power BI.

Education & certification

M.S. in Business Analytics, Boston University, Questrom School of Business, 2023

B.Tech., IIT Bombay, 2018

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203)

01

Revenue planning app

WEB APP · MICROSOFT FABRIC · AZURE
Problem

Forecasts and budgets lived in a vendor tool, an Access app and spreadsheets.

Move

Took a design prototype to production with 2 engineers and AI coding agents, behind automated release checks.

Result

In production in 10 weeks, now in pilot. Daily, monthly and P&L views agree to the penny.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Prototype Live
Prototype to production: 10 weeks
02

Forecasting platform

MACHINE LEARNING · MICROSOFT FABRIC
Problem

Forecasts drove decisions, but no one had measured how far off they were.

Move

Tested every model against real results, then fixed the defects the numbers showed.

Result

Error on past data fell from 40% to 16%. Monthly forecasts now cover 100+ hotels.

How one forecast is built
Before 40% After 16%
Forecast error
03

Database knowledge agent

AI AGENTS · GOVERNANCE
Problem

An 8.2 TB production database had no documentation.

Move

Built an AI agent that maps and documents it, and asks a person before any change.

Result

600+ changes made. Every one approved by a person.

The database as dots. Big dots are hubs.

03 / TALKS

  1. SIM Boston
    Mar 19
  2. devopsdays Philadelphia
    Oct 2
  3. Day of Data Pittsburgh
    Oct 10
  4. devopsdays Boston
    Oct 19 UPCOMING

SIM Boston

Build Trust in Your Data with Transparency

Mar 19, 2026

devopsdays Boston

We Gave the Agent Production Credentials

Oct 19-20, 2026 UPCOMING

  1. Oct 19-20, 2026

    devopsdays BostonUPCOMING

    Cambridge, MA

    We Gave the Agent Production Credentials

    Conference session

  2. Oct 10, 2026

    Day of Data Pittsburgh (SQLSaturday)

    Pittsburgh, PA

    The Best Model Was a Ratio: Hybrid Forecasting on Microsoft Fabric

    60-minute session · Data professionals at a free, community-run conference

  3. Oct 2, 2026

    devopsdays Philadelphia

    Philadelphia, PA

    We Gave the Agent Production Credentials

    Ignite talk · DevOps and platform engineers

  4. Mar 19, 2026

    SIM Boston (Society for Information Management)

    Boston, MA

    Build Trust in Your Data with Transparency

    Interactive session · CIOs and technology executives