Meera Raghavan — Head of Data
Hyderabad, Telangana
Data leader with fourteen years, now running a 34-person data organisation across platform, analytics and science at an e-commerce group. Cut platform cost 41% in a year when daily event volume doubled, and shipped the pricing model that added 1.9 points of gross margin on 70,000 products.
Experience
Head of Data, Harbourline Commerce · August 2022 – present
Data organisation of 34 across platform, analytics and data science, reporting to the CTO.
- Leads 34 people across three functions supporting 900 employees and a business of ₹4,200 crore in annual merchandise value.
- Cut platform cost 41%, about ₹6.8 crore a year, in a year when daily event volume doubled, by moving from always-on clusters to usage-billed compute.
- Replaced 300 hand-built dashboards with 40 governed data products and a self-serve metric layer; weekly report users rose from 180 to 610.
- Shipped the pricing-elasticity model that now sets markdowns on 70,000 products, lifting gross margin 1.9 points in its first full year.
- Built the levelling and review framework the team runs on; regretted attrition fell from 26% to 9% over two years.
Head of Data Engineering, Turnstone Mobility · April 2019 – July 2022
- Grew data engineering from four people to seventeen and delivered the platform behind a fleet product tracking 120,000 vehicles.
- Moved the company off a nightly warehouse onto streaming ingestion, taking dashboard freshness from 18 hours to under five minutes.
- Consolidated three regional warehouses into one, retiring ₹2.3 crore of duplicate tooling and ending a standing argument over which revenue number was correct.
- Introduced an on-call rota and incident reviews for data; pipeline incidents lasting over an hour fell from nine a quarter to one.
Analytics Manager, Marigold Insight · January 2016 – March 2019
- Ran a nine-person analytics team across three media clients; renewal rates rose from 60% to 100% over two contract cycles.
- Built the measurement framework for a ₹90 crore annual advertising budget, reallocating 14% of spend after a geo-holdout test.
- Hired and trained six analysts, four of whom now lead teams of their own.
Data Analyst, then Senior Data Analyst, Pinewick Systems · July 2012 – December 2015
- Automated the monthly regulatory reporting pack, cutting five analyst-days a month to half a day.
- Built the first companywide sales dashboard, replacing 22 spreadsheets that branch managers had been emailing in.
Education
- B.Tech. Electronics and Communication Engineering · Anna University · July 2008 – May 2012
Skills
- Leadership: Org design, Hiring and levelling, Roadmap and budget, Vendor negotiation, Coaching
- Platform: Lakehouse architecture, Streaming ingestion, Cost governance, Data contracts, Airflow
- Analytics and science: Metric layers, Pricing models, Experimentation, Forecasting, Power BI
- Governance: DPDP Act readiness, Access review, Incident review, Board reporting