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Chakkaravarthy (Chakkry) Arunachalam

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Head of Data Strategy, Analytics and Digital Innovation at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Chakkaravarthy Arunachalam is the Head of HR Data Strategy, Digital Innovation, and Analytics at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, previously a Senior Director at Salesforce. He specializes in data engineering and people analytics, focusing on evidence-based decision-making. Colleagues describe him as skilled, reliable, and thoughtful.

He earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Chennai and holds numerous advanced Tableau certifications, including Tableau Community Leader and Tableau Server Architect.

Unique fact: He has recently co-authored several technical papers on topics like scalable data pipelines and automated health monitoring frameworks.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Head of Data Strategy, Analytics and Digital Innovation
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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People Analytics & HR Tech
His career focus at Salesforce and now Vertex Pharmaceuticals is on building scalable data foundations and people technology systems to advise executive decision-making.
Data Engineering
His background includes engineering roles at Oracle and Visa, building large-scale data systems. He has co-authored recent technical papers on data pipeline optimization.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Head of Data Strategy, Analytics and Digital Innovation
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
4-2024 - 3-2025
Head of People Analytics
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
3-2025
Member
Forbes Human Resources Council
4-2025
Governing Body, Boston CDAO Community
Evanta, a Gartner Company
8-2024
Founding Member
Society for People Analytics
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Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
Chennai
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