Manager, Analytics Engineering

Kavya Sree Gummadi

I lead data & analytics engineering — owning the modern data stack end-to-end, building the teams and pipelines behind it, and bringing AI into the analytics workflow. 10+ years turning messy source data into decisions executives trust.

Domains I've delivered in
E-Commerce Retail Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) Business-to-Business (B2B) Luxury Brands Lifestyle Brands Healthcare Utilities Wholesale Marketplace E-Commerce Retail Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) Business-to-Business (B2B) Luxury Brands Lifestyle Brands Healthcare Utilities Wholesale Marketplace

About

A decade owning the data stack

I'm a Manager of Analytics Engineering with 10+ years across Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, and analytical modeling. Today I own the analytics platform and modern data stack end-to-end — and lead the engineers who build on it.

I've built across e-commerce, retail, D2C, B2B, and luxury & lifestyle brands — unifying DTC, wholesale, retail-store, and marketplace data into one trusted source of truth for the business.

My work spans the full lifecycle: data & analytics engineering (ingestion, warehousing, orchestration, modeling), self-service BI, and increasingly AI woven into the everyday workflow. I've led org-wide platform migrations, set engineering and SQL standards, mentored teams, and partnered with senior stakeholders across Editorial, Marketing, Merchandising, Retail, and Finance.

Role
Manager, Analytics Engineering
Experience
10+ years · BI · Data Eng · AI
Domains
E-commerce · Retail · D2C · B2B · Luxury & Lifestyle
Based in
Santa Clarita, CA

Expertise

What I do

Data & Analytics Engineering

Build the platform

Own the modern data stack end-to-end — Fivetran ingestion, Redshift warehousing, Airflow orchestration, and version-controlled, modeled fact/dimension tables. I replace manual steps with scheduled, observable, reliable pipelines.

Leadership

Lead the team

Manage and mentor analytics engineers, set technical direction, and establish code-review, SQL-style, and governance standards. I've led org-wide platform migrations and driven a culture of data democracy across the business.

AI & Automation

Bring in AI

Weave LLMs, agentic workflows, and automation into the analytics stack — internal AI assistants over company data and AI-assisted pipeline, reporting, and QA work that shorten the path from question to answer.

AI in practice

How I integrate AI into my work

AI isn't a side project — it's part of how my team ships analytics every day. I build with LLMs, agentic workflows, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect our data, tools, and people, and to take the repetitive work off engineers' plates.

Conversational analytics

Internal AI assistants that let non-technical teams ask questions of company data in plain language and get governed, trustworthy answers — without writing SQL or waiting on a request queue.

Agentic automation

Agent-driven workflows (n8n + MCP) that assemble multi-source reports, run recurring ETL, and deliver briefs straight to the channels stakeholders already use — turning manual reporting into a hands-off pipeline.

AI-assisted engineering

Using LLMs day-to-day to accelerate pipeline development, SQL and data modeling, documentation, and data-quality checks — raising throughput and consistency across the team.

Tooling & integration

Wiring AI into the stack through MCP integrations across our data warehouse, BI, marketing, and e-commerce tools — so insight, automation, and action live in one connected workflow.

Toolbox

Stack & tooling

Languages

PythonSQLPL/SQLT-SQLMDXShell

Data & Warehouse

Amazon RedshiftFivetranDimensional modelingKimball / InmonStar / Snowflake

Orchestration

Apache AirflowDAGsn8nSSIS

BI & Analytics

ZenlyticLooker / LookMLPower BI / DAXTableauSSRS / SSAS

Cloud & Infra

AWSS3AzureShopifyGitLabCloudflare

AI & Automation

LLMsAgentic workflowsMCPAI-assisted analytics

Portfolio

Selected work

BI Platform Migration: Looker → Zenlytic

Led the organization-wide migration of the BI platform, re-architecting the self-service layer and scaling adoption to 40+ active users and 3,000+ self-service queries — advancing a culture of data democracy with no disruption to executive reporting.

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Spree → Shopify Analytics Re-platform

Architected and led the analytics migration from Spree to Shopify — re-engineering downstream data models and pipelines end-to-end with zero disruption to executive reporting through the cutover.

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Marketing & Marketplace Data Pipelines

Built and maintained Airflow DAG pipelines ingesting from external APIs — Meta, TikTok, and Amazon — unifying marketing, advertising, and marketplace data into modeled, query-ready Redshift tables for the analytics layer.

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AI-Assisted Analytics & Automation

Bringing AI into the analytics workflow — internal LLM-powered assistants over company data and agentic automation for recurring reporting and ETL — so non-technical teams get answers faster and engineers spend less time on toil.

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Platform Ownership: Pipelines, Flows & Delivery

Keep the analytics platform running seamlessly end-to-end — maintaining all data pipelines and automated flows, monitoring and resolving data-quality issues before they reach stakeholders. As BI platform admin I own access, governance, and reliability, and I run project planning and delivery from intake through ship.

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10× Revenue Growth Model

An interactive, CEO-facing financial model mapping a path to a 10× revenue target by tuning the core e-commerce levers — traffic, conversion, AOV, and purchase frequency — with live scenario toggles.

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Career

Experience

Mar 2025 — Present

Manager, Analytics Engineering

Goop · Luxury & Lifestyle / D2C
  • Lead the Analytics Engineering function, owning the analytics data stack end-to-end across Fivetran, Redshift, Airflow, and Zenlytic.
  • Manage and mentor analytics engineers; set technical direction, code-review standards, and SQL style conventions.
  • Led the org-wide BI platform migration from Looker to Zenlytic, advancing a culture of data democracy.
  • Architected the Spree-to-Shopify analytics migration with no disruption to executive reporting.
  • Built modeled fact/dimension tables via Airflow DAGs and pipelines from Meta, TikTok, and Amazon APIs.
  • Established data governance and reusable patterns; partnered with Editorial, Marketing, Merchandising, Retail, and Finance.
Nov 2022 — Feb 2025

Senior Business Intelligence Engineer

Goop · Luxury & Lifestyle / D2C
  • Owned analytics projects end-to-end — requirements, pipelines, table loads, scheduling, modeling, and reporting.
  • Full ownership of Looker as the org's BI platform, including admin, access control, and workspace governance.
  • Built complex data pipelines on AWS and Airflow; created analytical models and data marts in LookML.
  • Delivered executive, KPI, and interactive dashboards across e-commerce, supply chain, wholesale, and clickstream data.
Dec 2021 — Oct 2022

Business Intelligence Developer

Bella+Canvas & Alo Yoga · Apparel / Retail / B2B
  • Built complex data pipelines with Azure Data Factory; automated end-to-end ETL into the data warehouse.
  • Developed SSIS packages and T-SQL procedures moving data from OLTP sources to staging, marts, and reporting.
  • Built interactive reports and dashboards in Power BI, Tableau, and SSRS.
Apr 2019 — Nov 2021

Business Intelligence Developer

Duquesne Light Company · Utilities
  • Built a new corporate data warehouse using ODI as the ETL tool.
  • Developed SSIS/ETL processes feeding mainframe and FTP workflows for supplier portals.
  • Built custom Power BI reports and dashboards across departments.
May 2016 — Mar 2019

Business Intelligence / ETL Developer

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield · Healthcare
  • Designed and built complex SSIS ETL packages with incremental loads into partitioned tables.
  • Built risk-stratification reporting and linear-regression risk models to prioritize care gaps.
  • Architected medium-to-large BI solutions on Azure (Data Lake, Data Factory, SQL DW, Databricks).

Education

Background

M.S., Information Technology & Management

Campbellsville University — Louisville, KY

M.S., Electrical Engineering

Fairleigh Dickinson University — Teaneck, NJ

B.Tech, Electronics & Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University — India

Let's build something reliable.

Hiring for data, analytics, or platform leadership — or want to talk about bringing AI into your analytics stack? I'd love to hear from you.