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Adam Kuyrkendall

@adamkuyrkendall

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AI and data platform executive leading global teams to modernize petabyte-scale platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead data and AI platform transformations—pairing MLOps, governance, and analytics to deliver measurable revenue and efficiency gains while maintaining secure, reliable, self-service at scale.

I’m a data and AI platform executive with 17+ years leading global engineering organizations responsible for petabyte-scale data platforms, machine learning infrastructure, cloud modernization, governance, and analytics. In my current role as Head of Data Platform, I defined and executed the company’s AI and data strategy, aligned technical roadmaps to business objectives, and generated $95M in incremental annual revenue.

I modernize enterprise data foundations and delivery pipelines end-to-end—transitioning 12 PB of telematics data to an Apache Iceberg medallion architecture and establishing MLOps practices to accelerate concept-to-production delivery. I also institutionalize ethical AI and data security across SOX, CCPA, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA through automated lineage, enterprise cataloging, and PII/PCI/PHI masking, partnering across engineering, product, operations, and executive leadership to drive efficiency and cost reductions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Head of Data Platform

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Root Auto Insurance, Inc.

Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 10 months)

Defined and executed the company’s AI and data strategy, transforming internal platforms by integrating AI into core business processes. Modernized the enterprise data foundation (Apache Iceberg medallion architecture) and established MLOps and enterprise governance for AI, security, and compliance.

AI Strategy Predictive Analytics Recommendation Systems Apache Iceberg Medallion Architecture Data Pipelines Data Quality Data Governance MLOps Data Security Automated Lineage Enterprise Cataloging SOX CCPA PCI DSS HIPAA

Director of Data Engineering

SCIPLAY

Jan 2021 - Jun 2024 (3 years 5 months)

Built and led a global data engineering organization and transformed enterprise data platforms with mission-critical streaming architecture on AWS, Kafka, Databricks, and Snowflake. Founded an inaugural MLOps team to accelerate delivery and supported marketing and finance predictive modeling initiatives.

Team Leadership Streaming Architecture AWS Kafka Databricks Snowflake Data Migration Data Quality MLOps predictive modeling

Senior Cloud Data Manager

PIMCO

Oct 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 2 months)

Led modernization of a large enterprise data footprint by migrating 80+ data applications to AWS and Snowflake. Pioneered automated MLOps workflows and implemented governance including RBAC and data lifecycle policies aligned to GDPR, SOX, GLBA, and CCPA.

AWS Snowflake MLOps Automated Model Training Validation Deployment Metadata Management Cloud Governance RBAC GDPR SOX GLBA CCPA Terraform Infrastructure as Code Observability DevOps CI CD

Enterprise Data Architect

uShip

Architected and executed migration of on-premises infrastructure to AWS and created inaugural Machine Learning Operations pipelines.

AWS Infrastructure Migration Machine Learning Operations

Technical Lead

Holiday Inn Club Vacations

Designed and implemented real-time, event-driven messaging integration for guest data, achieving sub-second synchronization and reducing service inquiry resolution time.

Guest Data Synchronization

Principal Software Engineer

Dell

Designed and built a high-performance ETL pipeline and API layer, optimizing data retrieval latency for the Dell Premier pricing catalog.

ETL

Senior Software Engineer

Walt Disney World

Engineered and deployed a unified payment processing gateway, improving collection efficiency and reducing manual reconciliation time.

Payment Processing Payment Gateways

Data Architect

Independent Purchasing Cooperative

Orchestrated a cloud-native, real-time inventory notification system to improve logistics visibility and fulfillment responsiveness.

Cloud Native Architecture Orchestration

Software Engineer

CBLPath

Implemented a secure, HL7-compliant data pipeline for National Cancer Registry integration, reducing reporting latency from 14 days to 24 hours.

HL7 Data Pipelines Data Integration Healthcare Data

Technical Lead

SumTotal Systems

Architected and executed deconstruction of a monolithic SQL Server instance, improving system performance and query scalability by decoupling workloads.

SQL Server Monolithic System Deconstruction Workload Decoupling Performance Optimization

Senior Software Engineer

CSX

Engineered and integrated a real-time data ingestion pipeline for rail telemetry and map data, enhancing operational visibility and dispatch efficiency through automated dynamic diagram generation.

Data Ingestion Rail Telemetry Map Data Automated Dynamic Diagram Generation