Roopak K Prajapat

Vice President Innovation & Data Science at KonaAI

Roopak K Prajapat has a diverse work experience across various industries. Roopak K began their career as an Infrastructure Engineer at Progressive Computech, where they worked from November 2003 to November 2005. Following this, they joined Secure Meters Ltd. as a Systems Administrator, responsible for the daily IT systems administration from November 2005 to November 2006. Roopak K then worked as a Server Administrator at Samsung from November 2006 to January 2008. Roopak K also served as a Windows Administrator at IP Soft India Pvt Ltd from February 2008 to July 2008.

In 2008, Roopak joined IBM as a Delivery Team Lead/Technical Lead/SME - Wintel Production Support. In this role, they managed service delivery for the production team, ensuring ITIL framework based delivery along with quality controls. Roopak K worked at IBM till March 2011.

Roopak then moved to Intel, where they held multiple roles. From March 2011 to July 2013, they served as a System Engineering Professional, leading a team to ensure stable and high-performing MicroStrategy BI environments. During this time, they also led performance improvement efforts resulting in significant enhancements. From August 2013 to January 2015, they worked as a Capability Engineer, evaluating new technologies, delivering pilots, and managing a project to build a BI platform for Intel's partners. Roopak K was awarded Innovation coins twice for their initiatives during this period. From February 2015 to November 2017, they were a BI & Analytics Product Owner, designing and operating innovative analytics solutions, including an NLP platform.

From November 2017 to August 2019, Roopak worked at Anheuser-Busch InBev, initially as a Global Compliance Pillar Lead - Legal Analytics, and later as a Senior Manager Analytics. In these roles, they were responsible for building and managing a diverse portfolio of programs, collaborating with stakeholders at VP and senior leadership levels, and leading the development of the "BrewRight" legal analytics platform.

Most recently, Roopak joined KonaAI in April 2023 as the Vice President of Innovation & Data Science.

Roopak K Prajapat completed an Executive Diploma in Management in Business Administration and Management at IBS Hyderabad from 2014 to 2015. Prior to that, they pursued a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications at the University of Rajasthan from 1999 to 2003. Additionally, they hold several certifications, including a Certificate in Disruptive Strategy from Harvard Business School Online (no specific start or end year provided), and certifications such as OpenCV for Python Developers (obtained in May 2020), Financial Accounting Fundamentals (obtained in January 2018), Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence Specialization (obtained in January 2017), TOGAF 9.1 Foundation (obtained in December 2016), Machine Learning (obtained in June 2016), Licensed Scrum Master (obtained in November 2019), and Licensed Scrum Product Owner (obtained in November 2019).

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