Ashwin Apte

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 8+ years in Data Science leadership roles.
  • Expertise in climate education and sustainable practices.
  • Strong background in manufacturing and quality management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Climate Tech and Data Science expert with leadership experience.

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Skills

Other Skills

Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)Business StrategyContinual ImprovementContinuous ImprovementData AnalysisData MiningFailure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)Financial ModelingISO 9001 Quality Management SystemLong-term Customer RelationshipsMachine LearningManagementMatlabNew Business DevelopmentOutsourcing Management

About

- Climate educator. Setting up my permaculture farm over 15 acres near Goa, India. - Leadership positions, setting up / running teams: 8+ yrs in Data Science for internet scale apps, 5 yrs in Manufacturing - Terra.do Climate Change: Learning For Action Fellow, MS (MS&E) from Stanford, MBA from IIM Lucknow, India

Experience

Transitions research

Learning Design and AI Fellow

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos · Goa, India

  • Helping build Monsoon Academy, an India and developing world focused learning platform that aims to propel transitions to low carbon, climate resilient, and sustainable futures by building a skilled work force
  • and
  • PULL AI, which is co-creating scalable, community driven solutions for climate action in mid-size Indian cities using AI.

Terra.do

2 roles

Course Director, Climate Change - Learning for Action

Jun 2023Feb 2024 · 8 mos

Instructor - Climate Change: Learning For Action

Dec 2022Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Moonfrog labs

Director

Jun 2018Apr 2023 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Part of senior leadership group; run business reviews, business forecasting and strategic planning for all game teams
  • Manage DS&A and User Acquisition (Marketing) teams

Hike messenger

3 roles

Director - Data Science and Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2018May 2018 · 1 mo

  • Processes and frameworks for metrics, analytics, experimentation and user insights, lead 15 member data analysts’ team
  • Metrics alignment across teams to make them actionable and promote accountability
  • Data based frameworks for assessing and strengthening Product Market Fit
  • Identify viable growth strategies through data and experimentation
  • Experimentation for product optimization and understanding user behavior
  • Structured approach towards deriving user insights, answer questions using data

Senior Lead Data Scientist

Jan 2017Apr 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

Lead Data Scientist

Nov 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • User modelling, segmentation, personalization and recommender systems at Hike.

@walmartlabs

Staff Engineer - Data Science, Team Lead

May 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Enrich the customer's purchase experience by providing the right product content on the Walmart.com product page. Use data science tools to identify the right content for each product, and organize it effectively and efficiently.

Stanford university

3 roles

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Promoted

Jan 2014Mar 2014 · 2 mos

  • CS246 - Mining Massive Data Sets
  • http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs246-2014/
  • Create, assign and grade problem sets.
  • Create and grade exams.
  • Hold weekly office hours.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2013Dec 2013 · 3 mos

  • CS224W - Social and Information Network Analysis
  • http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-2013/
  • Create, assign and grade problem sets.
  • Mentor project groups.
  • Hold weekly office hours.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Apr 2013Jun 2013 · 2 mos

  • MS&E 261 - Supply Chain Management
  • Assign, collect and grade assignments.
  • Mentor class project groups.
  • Hold weekly office hours.

@walmartlabs

Intern

Jun 2013Aug 2013 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Data Mining to discover rich information modules for Walmart.com product pages.

Ozone ventures

Partner

Jun 2009Jul 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Pune, India

  • Entrepreneurial venture, for importing and wholesaling bicycles and accessories
  • Sole distributors for Bergamont (German) bicycles in India
  • Appointed and managed dealers across India
  • Managed portfolio of bikes for Indian market
  • Provided key inputs to product designers in Germany
  • Ramped up sales from 300 bikes in 2010 to 1200 in 2011

Rapid machining technologies pvt. ltd

Director

Jan 2008Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Pune, India

  • Manufacturers of precision machined engine components, 80 employees
  • Sat on the Board of Directors, participated in and implemented strategic decisions
  • Led the Quality function, responsible for ISO 9001:2008 QMS implementation
  • Delivered zero-defect supplies to customers for entire product line (4 families, 41 items)
  • Drove 6-Sigma and Continual Improvement initiatives
  • Assessed, appointed and managed suppliers for over 30 outsourced components
  • Managed key customer accounts worth 40% of company’s sales: Cummins, Delphi, Bosch
  • Led initiatives to acquire new customers in India and abroad
  • Managed capacity expansion project with investments of USD 1.2mn in plant and machinery

Kennametal india ltd

Manager – Reconditioning & Product Manager

Jun 2006Oct 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Multi-national cutting tools manufacturer, 1200 employees (India)
  • Set up reconditioning facilities for drilling tools across India, delivered RoI target of 15%
  • Established logistics network across India
  • Managed portfolio of drilling tools (12 categories, 40+ catalog items)
  • Drove India sales of $10mn through 6 product specialists and 200 sales representatives
  • Interacted with global product and engineering teams
  • Trained sales teams in application areas
  • Created marketing and sales-ready literature (catalogs, brochures)
  • Received Outstanding Performance Award in 2007

Education

Terra.do

Climate Change: Learning for Action

Aug 2022Nov 2022

Stanford University

Master of Science (MS) — Management Science & Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) — Operations Management

Jan 2004Jan 2006

Savitribai Phule Pune University

MSc — Electronics

Jan 2002Jan 2004

Fergusson College

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) — Electronics Science

Jan 1999Jan 2002

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