# Ashwini Ratnam > Strategic Data Partnerships @Gruve | Classical Dancer & Artistic Founder @Arthya Location: Redwood City, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ashwiniratnam My name is Ashwini and I am a Data and Cybersecurity Partnership Technologist. Beyond the world of analytics and innovation, I am also a professionally trained Indian classical dancer and artistic founder of my dance school - Arthya. Blending precision and creativity both in technology and choreography, I have now found harmony between logic and art - using movement and technology alike to tell stories that inspire and connect. ## Work Experience ### Manager, Business Development - Data & AI @ Gruve Jan 2025 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States Building the Data Partnership practice at Gruve ### Classical Dancer & Artistic Founder @ Arthya Dance Company Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Modernizing Indian classical dance for the next generation of dancers. Tailored for working professionals, young mothers and adults looking for a holistic approach to learn Bharatanatyam at speed. ### Senior Manager, Data Partnership & Strategy @ Hexaware Technologies Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Spearheaded multiple partnership strategies across Hexaware’s core data partners including Snowflake, Databricks, Adobe, Microsoft, AWS, GCP. Led Hexaware to become Snowflake Implementation Partner Leaders (USA) as per ISG Analyst. Mediated collaborations and developed processes with internal stakeholders to understand critical data requirements, identify opportunities to leverage external data partners for new services and competitive advantage. Cross-functional Collaboration: Built and nurtured relationships with key decision-makers at Ataccama, FiveTran, Dataiku, Semarchy, Sigma and AtScale while ensuring collaborative engagement across various account executives (AEs) team leaders Enablement partner training: Assisted technical training to support internal teams (e.g., sales, client services, overlay sales and engineering teams) ensuring that they can effectively leverage partner platforms while implementing solutions for clients Marketing: Consistently drove thought leadership webinars, QBRs, roundtables, speaker sessions in collaboration with partners ### Senior Manager, Business Development @ Hexaware Technologies Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Assisted in researching and identifying 50+ potential clients in the HTPS (High Tech Professional Services) and SaaS industry. Participated in client meetings and contributed to proposal development, resulting in 2 successful deals. ### Principal Product Designer & UX Researcher @ TeleVital Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Independently designed a browser-based comprehensive EMR portal securing medical data for nearly 15,000+ pan-Asian patients. Assisted customer acquisition for a deep AI chatbot functionality that integrates the client's centrally stored data and patient vital signs to better serve doctors and healthcare professionals ### Graduate Research Assistant (RA) @ Tufts University Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Medford, Massachusetts, United States Independently researched and developed a VR centric edutech platform using Blender, Unity Built proof of concept for a VR centric campus touring portal integrated with official university website ### In-Ride Dashboard Design Researcher @ Zoox Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed the in-ride proof of concept dashboard experience showcasing safety features, emergency features, rider / trip details and entertainment attributes. Conducted thorough usability tests on Figma prototype with prospective users. ### UI/UX Product Design and Research Intern @ Hermis, Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Conducted quantitative user research, qualitative market analysis to design mockups and final wireframes for an AI centric marketplace of cross-functional meeting templates and games - now seen in their offered product ### Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) @ Tufts University Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Medford, Massachusetts, United States Responsible for lab demonstrations, lab reports, grading assignments/reports and grading final exam group projects alongside assisting the professor during the term for pre and post classwork every week. ### Senior Associate @ EY Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 External Client Komatsu: Orchestrated a scalable cloud-based monitoring dashboard that helps Komatsu model their vehicle data while harnessing the power of AI for optimizing and tracking various job site functions globally. Primary POC with external client stakeholders to understand their pre-bid topographical map, job site progress trends, location shipping costs, machine status, performance matrix patterns and other layers to their business External Client Disney: Primary POC to visualize and design a comprehensive data insight analytics dashboard to view, mitigate and evaluate media streaming / video consumption from one centralized portal Internal EY Client Tech Team: Solely responsible for designing and prototyping, mock-ups and wireframes for an AI-driven technology platform hosting numerous tech products and architecture blueprints being built by EY client technology and solution architecture teams - the platform was pushed to production impacting 60K service line users For Tax Advisory Service Line: Marketed an internal facing data visualization tool used to track client tech team product consumption. The product was later integrated into EY's SharePoint sites to track metrics and consumption of product marketing collaterals generated by nearly 20+ client advisory service line teams Data Visualization: Created real-time data driven dashboards and interactive reports using PowerBI and Tableau with a primary focus on monitoring user traction across 44 global client tech teams. Dashboards were connected to on- premise and cloud data sources including Dynamics 365, Azure SQL Database and Salesforce ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Human Computer Interaction Tufts University ### Interaction Design Specialization in Design Thinking and User Experience University of California, San Diego ### Digital Marketing Certification in Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Science and Engineering RV College Of Engineering ### 12th Grade Christ University, Bangalore ### 10th Grade National Public School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashwiniratnam - Portfolio: https://medium.com/@ashwiniratnam --- Source: https://flows.cv/ashwiniratnam JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ashwiniratnam/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13