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title: "Piyush Kumar - Data Scientist in Gurgaon | Tal"
description: "Meet Piyush Kumar, Senior Vice President (SVP), AI Platforms, Personalization & Growth Technology at MakeMyTrip | Building AI-native platforms for personalization, growth, evaluation & customer intelligence based in Gurgaon. AI stack includes claude code, lovable, and meta."
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# Piyush Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Senior Vice President \(SVP\), AI Platforms, Personalization & Growth Technology at MakeMyTrip \| Building AI\-native platforms for personalization, growth, evaluation & customer intelligence

## About

\{ "AMPED": \[ "Agentic AI", "Marketing", "Personalization", “Evaluation”, "Data" \] \} About \~/Piyush: Hacker‑architect and open‑source evangelist with 20\+ years of experience scaling India’s largest travel and commerce platforms at \(MakeMyTrip, AHPL, NexTag, Droom\)\. I specialize in building large\-scale, high\-performance systems, cloud\-native platforms, and modern data products\. At MakeMyTrip, I’ve tackled some of the most complex challenges in India’s online travel space—developing data\-driven services for personalization, context\-aware mobile experiences, customer segmentation, drop\-off retargeting, and behavioral offer communication pipelines\. Key Highlights: • Build the core for DevOps, InfoSec, Data Platform & Data Science teams at MakeMyTrip from ground zero\! • Setting up co\-location IDCs with Active\-Active DR sites for India’s No\. 1 OTA • Developing Data Products on Big Data Analytics Platforms Core Focus Areas: \* AI and Agentic AI Workflows \* Personalization at scale \(hyper\-personalization, user context modeling & Marketing Tech stack\) \* Data Platforms, Streaming Infrastructure \* AI Evaluation Frameworks and Observability \* Travel Planning AI Agents • …Generation G: Gamification engineer, building systems & creating teams Led MakeMyTrip’s strategic initiatives in personalization and recommendations, powered by robust data services and a modern Big Data platform\. Also, an active member of FOSS communities in Delhi/NCR & Bangalore and has been actively speaking in various events like ET Martech, GEN‑AI Conclave, Devopsdays, OSSCamps, PyCon etc\.including TEDx 🏅 IDC CIO100 ‘AWS Special Award’ \(2024\) – Recognized among India’s top 100 tech leaders for architecting MakeMyTrip’s cloud\-native data platform and GenAI stack\. 🏆 Databricks Data \+ AI World Tour ‘Disruptive Innovation’ Award \(2023\) – Honored for pioneering a Lakehouse\-driven approach to hyper\-personalized, “travel\-smarter” customer journeys\. Always a hacker at heart—constantly solving problems and experimenting with emerging technologies\. Let’s connect\. If you’re building the future of travel, agentic workflows, or hyper\-personalized customer experiences—or just want to riff on big data, Agentic AI, and open\-source—drop me a note\.

## Location

Gurgaon

## AI stack

claude code

lovable

meta

metaai

obsidian

openai

## Work experience

Data Scientist at Zidio Development, Jun 2026 \- Aug 2026 · 2 mo, Bangalore

## Education

B\.tech, Artificial Intelligence And Data Science, Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University

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