Nima Rad

Director, Engineering, Data Analytics at Gap

Nima Rad is the current Director of Engineering for Data Analytics at Gap. Nima has been with the company since July of 2018 and in their current position for just over two years.

Rad's experience with data analytics and engineering has led their to be an integral part of various projects at Gap. Nima has grown a team through hiring 3 full time employees and 4 contractors, created budgets and headcount plans, and even kickstarted two product PoC bake-offs.

Rad is currently in charge of three product groups at Gap- Inventory Analytics & Forecasting, Data Aggregation Platform, and Vendor Managed Inventory. Nima oversees a total of 38 engineers across 4 locations with teams that directly impact Gap's 16 billion dollars in yearly global sales.

In their role as Director of Engineering, Rad has helped to create a vision for the next few years for their department and establish short and long-range plans. Nima is also leading a cross-products effort to standardize continuous performance testing through an in-house integrated platform. This initiative expands across 3 product lines and 14 engineering teams.

Nima Rad has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Economics from the University of Maryland.

Some of their coworkers include Neeraj Tandon - Senior Director, Enterprise Systems Engineering & Strategy, Vamshi Krishna Yamsani - Director Software Engineer. Nima Rad reports to Sharmeelee Bala, VP, Engineering.

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