Vish Puttagunta

Vish Puttagunta has extensive work experience in the fields of analytics, data science, and technology. Vish is currently the CEO of Power Central, where they focus on bringing together ERP, data, and intelligence for food manufacturing and packaging companies. Vish has over two decades of global experience in software and AI, including roles at AT&T and Texas Instruments. Vish specializes in food manufacturing, food packaging, supply chain, and logistics, and also has expertise in management consulting, finance, operations, sales, procurement, production, warehouse, and inventory management. Vish is proficient in Microsoft Business Central, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Azure ML, Neo4J, and the Microsoft Power Platform. Vish is also involved in various other roles, including being a visiting faculty at Divergence Academy, an investor and CTO at Pack'n Fresh, an investor and technology advisor at DUKE.AI, and a co-organizer at DFW Data Science Meetup. Vish previously worked as the CTO and principal data scientist at Divergence.ai, where they incubated data science teams for marketing, packaging, and logistics in the food industry. Prior to that, Vish served as a senior data scientist at AT&T, where they focused on web analytics, omnichannel, and NLP. Vish has also held technical program manager positions at Linaro and worked as an Android kernel software engineer at both Texas Instruments and Samsung Telecommunications America.

Vish Puttagunta obtained a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communications Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in 1998-2002. Vish then pursued a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas from 2002-2004. In terms of additional certifications, Vish has completed various courses and trainings. These include certifications in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Manufacturing, Learn Microsoft Flow, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM, NAV, AX) Intro Training Course from Udemy in 2018-2020. Vish also obtained the IBM Blockchain Foundation for Developers certification from Coursera in 2018, the DATA SCIENCE ADAPTIVE certification from Divergence Academy in 2016, the Logical Operations Modern Classroom Certified Trainer (MCCT) certification from Logical Operations in 2020, and the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification from Amazon Web Services in 2017. Additionally, Vish has obtained several certifications from Microsoft, including Exam 773: Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R, Exam 774: Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning, and MCSA: Machine Learning - Certified 2019. The specific months and years for the Microsoft certifications are not provided.