Vinay Reddy

Co-Founder @ Zacks Intelligence

About

As a seasoned software engineer and thought leader, boasting a wealth of experience in research and product development at world class organizations like Philips Research, IBM Research, and IBM Software, I excel in building research-driven software solutions from ideation to deployment. My passion for creating transformational systems, combined with a big-picture perspective, has earned me research accomplishments, division awards, patents, publications, and a major technical achievement award. Currently, my interests lie in leveraging Generative AI to proactively identify business problems and develop solutions/products around them.

Country

United States

City

Yorktown Heights

Industry

Research

Skill

Full-Stack Development, Systems Design, Product Development, Prototyping, Research and Development (R&D), Open-Source Software, Eclipse plugin development, Optimization Algorithms, Application Programming Interfaces (API), Solution Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Apache Zeppelin, MLOps, Deep Learning, SQL, Predictive Analytics, R (Programming Language), Rational Team Concert, Eclipse, JavaScript

Experience

Co-Founder

Zacks Intelligence

2025-4 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

United States

www.zacksinsight.com Innovation + Product vision+ AI+ Strategy+ Engineering

Head of AI Strategy

Zacks Investment Research

2023-6 - 2025-4 · 1 yr 11 mos

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Generative AI agenda for Investment Research

Engineering Leadership -In-database Analytics, IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software

IBM

2020-1 - 2023-5 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Littleton, Massachusetts, United States

Led the in-database analytics initiatives for the Netezza database group, designed and developed a Python push-down analytics framework to enable ML/AI engineers to run custom Python code directly inside the database. https://github.com/IBM/nzpyida Managed an initiative to conceptualize and develop impactful use-cases in pushdown analytics, visualization, geospatial, and other high-value domains to increase Netezza's market share.

Engineering Leadership -Conversational AI, IBM Watson Education

IBM

2017-5 - 2019-12 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Greater New York City Area

Led the design and development of a dialog-based Watson Tutor that can converse with students in natural language mode to improve their learning. Responsible for all aspects of Conversational AI - building dialog flows (with intent classification and entity detection), developing frameworks for collecting training data, building tools for transcript analysis to generate insights, and developing feedback process tools to improve dialog quality.

Research and Development - IBM Research

IBM

2008-7 - 2017-4 · 8 yrs 10 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education industry solutions : Led the design and development of Personalized Intervention Management, Career Pathways Recommender and Blended Learning systems. Software services industry solutions: Led the design and development of Application Assembly Optimization platform (a global workforce management platform to enable factory style service delivery)