WildFire Force: Empowering AI with Big Data

With over 18 years of experience in technology, big data, and analytics, Mahesh Varavooru knows what it takes to augment the impact of big data beyond simple data and analytics. He opines that data science and AI empowered by big data is accelerating the potential for disruptive change. "Only when we have big data we can execute data science and AI projects," he adds. His deep understanding of the dynamic technological environment has translated into laying the cornerstone of WildFire Force. "At WildFire, our primary mission is to help enterprises transform their businesses through the application of technological disruptions like big data, data science, NLP, and AI solutions," says Varavooru, founder, and CTO, WildFire Force. Besides offering data science and AI solutions, WildFire executes end-to-end big data implementation, beefed up with consulting services in data strategy, predictive analysis, AI, and ML.

A client engagement typically begins with understanding and identifying the challenges through an extensive process that involves analysis of the clients’ existing data, looking at their use case and then performing a proof of concept (POC). Following this, WildFire offers a tailor-made proposal regarding the necessary technology to be integrated, which when accepted by the client, is implemented through utilization of open source tools, like Python and TensorFlow, and AI libraries. “Once the customized product or service is developed and implemented, WildFire continues to provide support, functioning as a DevOps practitioner,” says Varavooru.

The company’s ingenuity in delivering AI, data science and big data consulting is employed in a variety of verticals—from energy and healthcare to financial and government. In healthcare, WildFire offers services that are complementary to the services provided by doctors in identifying cancer and enabling patients to avail early detection of various types of cancer. The team assists their clients in the field of cosmetics by enhancing their sales processes, especially the aspect of customer segmentation. This aides the client in improving their customer experience, which eventually leads to improved sales figures.