Nitin Motgi

Nitin currently leads all Product and Engineering initiatives at Cask Data, Inc. Cask Data, provides industries first Unified Integration Platform for building data analytics applications and frameworks called CDAP ( Cask Data Application Platform). Prior to Cask Data, Nitin spent 5 years at Yahoo!, where he was an engineering lead working on a large-scale content optimization and personalization engine known externally as C.O.R.E. He was one of the founding members of C.O.R.E at Yahoo! He pioneered the use of HBase in production at Yahoo!, running what was at the time one of the biggest HBase clusters in the world. Under his engineering lead, Yahoo! Frontpage reached a whooping 300% increase in engagement due to optimization, deep personalization and a substantial increase in incremental revenue. He was instrumental in getting C.O.R.E deployed into different parts of Yahoo! C.O.R.E was featured in the 500th Information Week publication, anniversary 2011 edition, as one of the “20-IT-ideas-worth-stealing". Before Yahoo!, Nitin was at Altera, building systems that helped improve the overall process for identifying fabrication issues at scale. Prior to Altera, Nitin was with FedEx, where his various roles helped Fedex build a revenue monitoring and prediction system. Nitin is known as an exceptional collaborator with both his peers and team members. He is optimistic, energetic, transparent and approachable. He takes a strong interest in the career development of his team members and the relationships he builds with others. He is someone who can be trusted, leads by example and will get the absolute best out of his team.