Tanmay Kallakuri MSBA 26

A man with dark hair and a beard, wearing a dark coat and light shirt, stands smiling in front of bookshelves filled with books.

Four years in cybersecurity taught me something annoying. People kept making calls on gut when the data was sitting right there. I wanted to learn how to actually use it. UC Davis was the program where the curriculum matched what I was after.

Machine learning sits next to causal inference. Statistics asks why, not just whether. Spark and distributed processing come up early because that is how data actually moves at companies. I came here to get sharper, and the faculty here are why I think that is going to happen.

Student Leadership and Experience

  • Graduate Student Analyst (GSA), UC Davis MSBA
  • Coordinator, UC Davis MSBA Peer Mock Interview Program
  • Editor, UC Davis MSBA Monthly Newsletter

Previous Education

  • Bachelor's, computer science, K.R Mangalam University

Previous Work Experience

  • Security Analayst, SecurityLit
  • CyberSecruity Engineer-Red Teamer, Culinda India Pvt. Ltd.

Fun Facts

  • I wake up at strange hours to watch Barca play.
  • I still collect Hot Wheels; mostly Porsches.
  • I know the entire Porsche 911 lineage by generation code, which has so far helped me in zero job interviews.