Giri Tatavarty

Giri Tatavarty is Vice President of AI & Data Science at 84.51°, Kroger's retail data science company, where he leads Kroger's AI Factory and AI Platform. Built on a hub-and-spoke model, the platform gives teams across America's largest grocery retailer shared, governed building blocks to move AI from pilot to production. Nearly two decades with the organization, Giri has led work spanning supply chain, personalization & search, recommender systems and generative AI. Today he focuses on enterprise AI and agentic transformation, matching the right intelligence to each workload, from frontier models to specialized models and automation, so AI delivers measurable business value at sustainable cost. A speaker at NVIDIA GTC, Giri writes regularly on LinkedIn about enterprise AI, LLMs and the AI-driven software development lifecycle.