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Geetha Avadhanula

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Director Data Science and Engineering interim at ActBlue
📍 United States

Geetha Avadhanula is an engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building high-performing data and AI/ML teams. She specializes in delivering scalable data solutions using technologies like Kafka, Spark, Databricks, and AWS. She holds a Bachelors in Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.

A 2020 GoFundMe page shows a donation from a "Santhosh Geetha Avadhanula" to a fundraiser providing free meals to people in need in the Seattle area, suggesting an interest in community support.

She has recently directed teams in developing AI-powered conversational chatbots using Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

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Current Role
Director Data Science and Engineering interim
Location
United States
Personality Overview

How Geetha shows up

Driven But Considerate
Decisive But Friendly
Dynamic But Sincere

They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders) If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product

Priorities

Topics Geetha cares about

Real-time Data
Her expertise includes building real-time streaming data ingestion pipelines using technologies like Kafka and Spark Streaming.
AI-powered Chatbots
She has recent, hands-on experience directing teams to build conversational chatbots leveraging modern LLMs and RAG frameworks.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Director Data Science and Engineering interim
ActBlue
5-2022 - 2-2025
Manager, Data Engineering and AI
Tealium
6-2017 - 5-2022
Lead, Data Engineering & Data Science
Seattle Children's
12-2014 - 5-2016
Sr Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
4-2007 - 7-2012
ETL Lead Analyst- III
Costco Wholesale
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Education
Bachelors in Technology
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
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