A leading data scientist for optimizing infrastructure, Ritesh Agrawal at Uber leads the Intelligent Infrastructure Systems team. The team focuses on scaling data infrastructure for Uber's growing business needs now and foreseeable in the future. Before Uber, Ritesh specialized in predictive and ranking models at Netflix, AT&T Labs and Yellow Pages where he built scalable machine learning infrastructure with technologies such as Docker, Hadoop, Spark, and more. A Ph.D. scholar from Pennsylvania State University (State College) in Environmental Earth Science, Ritesh's thesis focused on computational tools and technologies such as concept map ontologies.