The Data Standard

Domain specialized data intelligence with Sai Sreenivas

Sai Sreenivas, Co-Founder & CTO at Spoonshot sits down with TDS to discuss domain specialized data intelligence.

Episode Summary

While leading BI vendors target large audiences with their analytics tools, many other companies target a single specialized industry and use their expertise to best serve users. Artificial Intelligence is now penetrating almost every existing domain. Finance, healthcare, education, transportation and many sectors are witnessing active use of AI. This intelligence is now being used for an upcoming niche: prediction of consumer tastes and food trends. Spoonshot, a startup based in Bangalore, is using AI to help businesses operating in the food and beverages sector serve their customers better by providing useful insights on future food trends and guest intelligence. Sai Sreenivas Kodur is the Co-Founder & CTO of Spoonshot, a technology startup supporting food innovation intelligence. Sai is specialised in compilers and machine learning, with a working experience in internet technology companies solving the problems of search and recommendations. Sai worked at Zomato, India’s largest food ordering and restaurant discovery platform, as a Software Engineer in search, where he re-built its search relevance and ranking models from scratch to improve restaurant results. Later he worked at Myntra, India’s biggest online fashion store, as a Senior Software Engineer, leading search and style services and working on various technological functions. Currently, he is spearheading engineering and data science at Spoonshot to build an innovation intelligence and analytics platform for the Food & Beverage industry.

Meet The Host

Catherine Tao

Data scientist at The Data Standard

Catherine Tao is a tech enthusiast looking for new methods for building connections with businesses around the world. Her extensive knowledge of data science allowed her to develop new solutions and implement them into existing ecosystems. She is currently working as a Data scientist and Exclusive Podcast Producer at The Data Standard.

Meet The Guest

Sai Sreenivas

Co-Founder & CTO at Spoonshot

Sai Sreenivas Kodur is the Co-Founder & CTO of Spoonshot, a technology startup supporting food innovation intelligence. Sai is specialised in compilers and machine learning, with a working experience in internet technology companies solving the problems of search and recommendations. Sai worked at Zomato, India's largest food ordering and restaurant discovery platform, as a Software Engineer in search, where he re-built its search relevance and ranking models from scratch to improve restaurant results. Later he worked at Myntra, India's biggest online fashion store, as Senior Software Engineer, leading search and style services and working on various technological functions. Currently, he is spearheading engineering and data science at Spoonshot to build an innovation intelligence and analytics platform for the Food & Beverage industry.