Ketan Khanna

Ketan Khanna

Marketing Automation and Advertising Operations. Backed by data science and AI. Founder of Cinderhawk Games. Toronto based and open to remote.

> currently: deploying campaigns▌

About

Eleven years of deploying campaigns that land. From banking and retail media to autos and telecom. Today I run email execution in Adobe Campaign at Sun Life. I went back to U of T for data science and AI because sending campaigns wasn't enough. I wanted to know why they work.

11 yrs
marketing and advertising operations
~$20MM
annual revenue portfolio managed
1,000+
campaigns delivered
4.0
GPA across two U of T certificates

What I bring

Marketing Automation

Hands-on Adobe Campaign expert. Precise segments and dynamic HTML with suppression rules that keep deliverability high. A/B tests that turn into clear decisions.

Execution you can trust

Right the first time. Tight QA. Clean audiences. Compliance handled in a regulated industry.

Ad tech fluency

Google's full ad stack plus DMPs and programmatic buying. Insertion order to final report.

Data beyond the dashboard

Did the test actually win? Which audiences are burning out? What drives ROI? I answer those with Python and stats.

Experience

2021 – present
Senior Marketing Automation Specialist, Sun Life12 to 16 Adobe Campaign deployments a month. I own each one from audience build through QA to reporting.
2020 – 2021
Campaign Manager, Mars United Commerce (Walmart Connect)Ran a ~$20MM portfolio and delivered 1,000+ campaigns on Google's ad stack.
2018 – 2020
Senior Advertising Operations Specialist, AutoTraderDirect and programmatic campaigns. Built first-party audiences in Lotame and Adobe Audience Manager.
2015 – 2018
Advertising Operations Specialist, Rogers CommunicationsFirst Advertising Operations hire for Rogers Media digital. Built the playbook the team grew on.

Projects

Email Campaign Analytics

Scorecards and trend lines with English vs French splits. A/B tests evaluated with proper significance testing.

PythonpandasA/B testing

Snake DQN Agent

A deep Q-learning agent that teaches itself to play Snake.

Reinforcement learningTensorFlow

Toronto Collision Severity

Nine models head to head on Toronto Police open data. Tuned the best ones. Team project.

scikit-learnOpen data

EXIOS

A sci-fi strategy game with a dark story. I design and direct it through my studio Cinderhawk Games. 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 & A/B testing
  • Deliverability
  • Tableau

Advertising Operations

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

Data & AI

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