Director, Analytics & AI · Walmart · Bentonville, AR

Bhupendrasinh Thakre

Transforming enterprise complexity into
decisions that move at scale.

IEEE Senior Member Harvard Business Analytics Google Cloud Certified
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01 About

I build systems that don't exist yet — and then make them run at enterprise scale. Over the past decade at Walmart, I've moved from architecting fraud detection across 2 billion transactions, to turning around an $8B returns operation, to now directing AI deployment for Health & Wellness across 1,300 daily users. Each chapter different. The thread: bringing rigorous structure to genuinely ambiguous problems.

What drives me isn't the technology — it's the moment an organization actually changes because of what you built. A dashboard that a VP trusts implicitly. A model that catches what humans couldn't see. A team that ships things they didn't think were possible six months ago. I hold an IEEE Senior Membership, publish research, and speak on generative AI — not for the credential, but because explaining hard ideas clearly is part of doing the work well.

" Bet on simplicity. Even more so today.
The smartest leaders are betting simple over complex. "
02 Chapters A career in three acts
Act II · 2024 — 2025
Walmart Return Operations

The $8B Turnaround

Executed a full modernization of an $8B analytics operation — 25% faster processing, 10% accuracy improvement, 40% operational efficiency gains. Built the enterprise analytics platform that scaled the entire architecture.

Platform Architecture A/B Testing eCommerce Analytics
Act I · 2013 — 2024
Walmart · Target · Nielsen

Risk, Fraud & the Foundation

Built fraud detection across 3B+ transactions. Led global anti-corruption analytics across 22 countries. Engineered the compliance and risk platforms that would define the next decade of enterprise data at Walmart.

Fraud Detection Python · scikit-learn Google Cloud
03 Thinking Ideas I keep returning to
10 × 1 does not equal 1 × 10. Ten average contributors don't produce what one exceptional mind can.
On talent
Chips are common. Talent is rare. The infrastructure buildout is the easy part. What you do with it isn't.
On AI
The reason we don't fully understand why large models work may be their greatest long-term advantage.
On intelligence
Kite fighting teaches you something: the string that cuts others is the same one that keeps you aloft. Pressure reveals capability.
On leadership
04 Published
2024
Enhancing Retail Fraud Detection with Isolation Forests and Autoencoders JARET · Volume 3, Issue 1
2024
Revolutionizing Retail Fraud Detection: Cutting-Edge AI Techniques Lead the Charge TechBullion
2024
Guest Speaker — Generative AI in Enterprise NWA ISACA / Institute of Internal Auditors · 8th Annual
Talk
2024
Guest Speaker — MS in Business Analytics Goizueta Business School · Emory University
Talk
2025
IEEE Senior Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Member

Let's talk.

Whether you're building something that needs to scale,
thinking through an AI deployment, or just curious — reach out.