Vijay Chowdhari is a Director of Data and Analytics for TCS World Travel, leading the overall departmental analytics and data engineering efforts. Previously, he worked at Alaska Airlines as a Manager of  E-commerce and Web Analytics revamping their legacy BI platform to the cloud and at Allrecipies as a Manager of Business Intelligence, where he devised A/B experiments and time-series models to model the growth of the world’s largest food social network site.

Vijay has 12+ years experience working in Data Analytics and Engineering working on various initiatives such as airline ticketing price estimation, profit optimization, A/B testing and predicting customer worth. 

Vijay received his B.A  in Economics from Middlebury College and his M.S. in Business Analytics from the University of Connecticut.  With a deep background in data science and big data analytics, Vijay has mentored numerous junior data scientists and engineers. He taught an 8 week analytics bootcamp to novel students at Northeastern University. He also has experience teaching Analytics to working professionals. He taught Certificates in Data Science and Analytics at the University of Washington’s Professional and Continuing Education School in Seattle, WA.

While not focusing on empowering students and clients with the power of data, Vijay enjoys spending time with his wife, daughter and extended family.