Ketan Khanna

Ketan Khanna

Marketing Automation and Advertising Operations. Fluent in data science and AI. Developing EXIOS on the side. Based in Toronto and open to remote.

> Currently: Deploying Campaigns▌

About

Eleven years orchestrating campaigns across banking, retail media, automotive and telecom. Today I lead email execution in Adobe Campaign at Sun Life. Curiosity drew me back to U of T for data science and AI. Delivering campaigns wasn't enough; I wanted to understand why they work. Off the clock you'll find me on a pickup basketball court.

11 yrs
Marketing and Advertising Operations
~$20MM
Annual Revenue Portfolio Managed
1,000+
Campaigns Delivered
4.0
GPA in U of T AI and Data Science

What I Bring

Marketing Automation

End-to-end Adobe Campaign execution. Precise segmentation and dynamic HTML governed by suppression logic that safeguards deliverability. A/B tests engineered to yield decisions rather than charts.

Ad Tech Fluency

Google's complete ad stack alongside DMPs and programmatic buying. Insertion order through final report.

Execution You Can Trust

Meticulous QA and clean audiences. At ease within the compliance demands of a regulated industry.

Data Beyond the Dashboard

Did the test genuinely win? Which audiences are fatiguing? What truly drives ROI? I answer those questions with Python and statistical rigour.

Experience

2021 – present
Senior Marketing Automation Specialist, Sun LifeTwelve to sixteen Adobe Campaign deployments a month, each owned from audience build through QA to reporting.
2020 – 2021
Campaign Manager, Mars United Commerce (Walmart Connect)Stewarded a ~$20MM portfolio and delivered 1,000+ campaigns across Google's ad stack.
2018 – 2020
Senior Advertising Operations Specialist, AutoTraderTrafficked direct and programmatic campaigns. Engineered first-party audiences in Lotame and Adobe Audience Manager.
2015 – 2018
Advertising Operations Specialist, Rogers CommunicationsFirst Advertising Operations hire at Rogers Media digital. Built the function from the ground up: onboarding, checklists and operating workflows for a growing team.

Projects

Email Campaign Analytics

Performance scorecards and trend analysis with English and French splits. A/B results validated through rigorous significance testing.

PythonpandasA/B Testing

Snake DQN Agent

A deep Q-learning agent that taught itself to play Snake. It's better at it than I am.

Reinforcement LearningTensorFlow

Toronto Collision Severity

Nine models benchmarked on Toronto Police open data with the strongest refined further. Team project.

scikit-learnOpen Data

EXIOS

A sci-fi strategy game with a dark heart that I'm developing and directing. Built in Godot with AI-assisted development. Steam Early Access planned.

Game DesignGodotDirection

More on GitHub →

Education

University of Toronto

Artificial Intelligence Certificate. 4.0 GPA.

Deep LearningIntelligent AgentsReinforcement Learning

University of Toronto

Data Science Certificate. 4.0 GPA.

Machine LearningStatisticsBig Data

University of Toronto

Advertising Certificate with a digital marketing focus.

AdvertisingDigital Marketing

University of Toronto

Bachelor of Arts (Honours). Economics for Management and Political Science.

EconomicsPolitical Science

Toolkit

Marketing Automation

  • Adobe Campaign
  • HTML Email
  • Segmentation and A/B Testing
  • Deliverability
  • Tableau

Advertising Operations

  • Google Ad Manager
  • CM360 & DV360
  • Adobe Audience Manager
  • Lotame
  • Google Analytics

Data and AI

  • Python, pandas, NumPy
  • scikit-learn
  • TensorFlow / Keras
  • Predictive Modeling