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2020 Tech Trendsetter: Harsha Kommanapalli

Tavant, Director of AI and Analytics

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Harsha Kommanapalli, Director of AI and Analytics, Tavant

Harsha Kommanapalli is disrupting the traditional lending process with an analytics-everywhere approach that can be witnessed across Tavant’s suite of products and client engagements. His philosophy, coupled with his extensive business knowledge and experience has positioned Tavant as a pioneer and leader in regards to AI deployments in the mortgage industry. Kommanapalli has helped top lenders across the country gain a better understanding of and ultimately adopt a more advanced approach that leverages AI and machine learning to obtain real-time metrics and automatically mine insights from data including origination volumes, loan throughputs, lead conversion rates, best sales performers, pricing insights, listings funnels, sentiment analysis and propensity to sell and buy. Kommanapalli and his team of techies have helped these same lenders dismantle and replace archaic processes and legacy systems with best-in-class components, sophisticated data and ML platforms, cloud data warehouses, data lakes and streaming services. Kommanapalli’s agile approach to ML engineering and ML operations has accelerated and expedited Tavant’s ability to develop and deploy modern, advanced products and features that can scale effortlessly and enable lenders to not only remain competitive, but also deliver better products faster that meet and exceed consumer expectations.

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