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Gowri Shankar

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Data Engineering Manager Doordash

With over 18 years of hands-on experience across both individual contributor and managerial roles, my career spans critical domains including Delivery, Media & Entertainment, and Supply Chain & Logistics. Currently, I lead the Core Consumer, Growth Marketing and Retention DE teams at DoorDash. My team builds core data products and frameworks that enable Clickstream analysis, Subscriptions/Subscriber Growth accounting, Growth Engineering, MarTech/CRM and supercharge Analytics teams to run, measure, and optimize high-scale campaigns. We power personalized customer journeys, precise targeting, and growth experimentation—all supported by data assets that represent a comprehensive 360° view of customers across DoorDash’s three-sided marketplace.

Bio from: Data + AI Summit 2025

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Doordash Customer 360 Data Store and its Evolution to Become an Entity Management Framework

The "Doordash Customer 360 Data Store" represents a foundational step in centralizing and managing customer profile to enable targeting and personalized customer experiences built on Delta Lake. This presentation will explore the initial goals and architecture of the Customer 360 Data Store, its journey to becoming a robust entity management framework, and the challenges and opportunities encountered along the way. We will discuss how the evolution addressed scalability, data governance and integration needs, enabling the system to support dynamic and diverse use cases, including customer lifecycle analytics, marketing campaign targeting using segmentation. Attendees will gain insight into key design principles, technical innovations and strategic decisions that transformed the system into a flexible platform for entity management, positioning it as a critical enabler of data-driven growth at Doordash. Audio for this session is delivered in the conference mobile app, you must bring your own headphones to listen.