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Karishma Warudkar

@karishmawarudkar

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Senior data governance and analytics leader building business-ready data platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead enterprise data governance and analytics modernization—building business-ready data environments, strengthening MDM/quality and executive reporting, and delivering measurable financial value through global team leadership and data-backed strategy.

I’m a strategic data & analytics leader with 11+ years of progressive technology experience, including 5+ years in senior leadership roles. I build enterprise-wide data analytics, BI, MDM, data governance, and AI strategies that turn complex data into “business-ready” environments (lakes, lakehouses).

In my recent roles, I’ve led global teams, modernized data platforms, and strengthened data governance to deliver measurable financial value—like executive dashboards projecting $35.2M in annual operational savings, cutting ETL job failures by 90%, and migrating core payment/POS/customer data to Snowflake to deliver $1.3M in cost savings. I’m especially focused on KPI frameworks, executive reporting cadences, and vendor selection for MDM tooling to ensure reliability, integrity, and compliance across the enterprise.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Logistics & Optimization Data Manager

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Waste Management, Inc.

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Defined KPI frameworks and delivered executive dashboards for enterprise agentic AI initiatives, including projected $35.2M annual operational savings. Built and led a 9-person global analytics team, improving operations data availability and data integrity while governing $84M in annual cost data.

Agentic AI Dashboards Stakeholder Management Executive Reporting Team Leadership Data monitoring Anomaly Detection Data Governance Data Integrity

Data Warehouse Lead

Hot Topic, Inc.

Dec 2022 - Jan 2025 (2 years 1 month)

Owned reliability and performance for 300+ enterprise data pipelines supporting revenue reporting, reducing ETL job failures by 90%. Led data modernization to migrate payment, POS, and customer data to Snowflake and built BI/reporting capabilities using Looker.

ETL Snowflake Python (ETL Modification)Oracle Looker BI Architecture Change Management data modernization Data Migration

Data Management & Governance Analyst II

Republic Services, Inc.

Jan 2019 - Dec 2022 (3 years 11 months)

Led Master Data Management and data governance for 3M customers and 80M company-owned assets, integrating Salesforce data and establishing data catalogs, lineage, and golden records. Authored governance standards, evaluated MDM vendors (Stibo, Informatica, Reltio), and mentored analysts using Power BI and SQL workflows.

Master Data Management Data Governance Salesforce Data Catalogs Data Lineage Golden Records Data Stewardship STIBO Informatica Reltio Power BI SQL

Data Management Analyst

Avnet, Inc.

Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 4 months)

Built Power BI dashboards translating business requirements into reporting for inventory and global sales performance, presenting results to executive leadership. Automated inventory depreciation reporting and demand-based allocation logic to reduce weekly reporting effort from 12 hours to 40 minutes.

Power BI Dashboarding Report Automation Demand Based Allocation Logic Data Analysis

Space & Assortment Optimization Analyst

PetSmart, Inc.

Jun 2016 - May 2017 (11 months)

Delivered analytics dashboard projects saving over $800K through master data refinement and product demand optimization across product, supply chain, and planning teams. Used Alteryx to analyze market basket and demographic/geographic patterns and produced comp- and forecast-based recommendations for store and planning stakeholders.

Alteryx Master Data Refinement Dashboards Demand Forecasting Stakeholder Recommendations