As recently as 2012, Ravi Ramineni was effectively an unemployed soccer blogger looking for a big break. After several years as a data analyst with Microsoft, he had given himself 6-9 months to chase his passion.
He found an open mind in Dave Tenney, then the Seattle Sounders High Performance Director. Tenney and the Sounders had started gathering huge amounts of data — mostly based on GPS tracking — and needed someone with Ramineni’s expertise to help make sense of it all.
Thus started a nearly 10-year journey that recently resulted in Ramineni’s promotion to Vice President of Soccer Analytics.