About

Giri Devanathan is a highly experienced Founder and CEO at Enixta, an AI-driven technology company that specializes in extracting insights from natural language text created by consumers and users. With over 22 years of relevant experience, Giri is a versatile professional who has worked in various domains such as Marketing, Biz Development, Sales, Technology, Finance, ML, and Product. Before founding Enixta, Giri worked at PayPal, Nokia, Yahoo!, and eBay, where he gained extensive experience in building technology and products for B2C/B2B markets. At PayPal, Giri initiated the Data Life Cycle management process, which was the first of its kind in the company. He was responsible for the complete data layer, including product management, project management, engineering, and customer engagements. Giri also conceptualized and handled the initiative to move the company away from batch processing to real-time computing. Giri has also worked as a Consultant at Business Software Solutions, where he offered consulting services to various Fortune 500 companies. He has worked in technical lead, DBA, systems architect, data modeler, and developer roles for companies such as Crum & Foster, NEIL, MIIX, and AIG. Giri holds an MBA in Technology Management from Anna University and a B.S in Mathematics from the University of Madras. He completed his high school education from KPCVSS School and holds a certification in his field of expertise. Giri is proficient in various technologies such as Research Scientist, test, Senior Software Engineer, Search, product manager, Software Engineer, infra, Big Data, MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra, and ETL. Giri's expertise lies in building and leading high-performing teams, developing and implementing procedures, standards, and methodologies for database related activities, and driving software development cycles to on-time completion. He is a strategic thinker who can identify bottlenecks, issues, throughputs, and leverage test output for capacity planning and fixing issues proactively.