Apr 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Founded and led a consulting organisation providing technical expertise on Analytics and Data Science initiatives for clients in Ed-tech and Financial services.
• Identified KPIs and metrics to measure product benchmarks and built the analytics infrastructure to implement them effectively.
• Provided advise on platform and tool selection, and implemented end-to-end data engineering, analytics pipelines, and data models for streamlined analysis and automation.
• Identified key customer segments using metrics such as LTV, revenue, retention, and product usage.
• Operationalised growth accounting metrics and dashboards to drive product initiatives.

Aug 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led the strategic and operational management of the data team, driving business solutions through Data Engineering, Analytics, Data Science and cross-functional collaboration.
• Developed and executed strategic plans for data engineering and analytics, including the setup of data pipelines and analytical models.
• Established a Data Science team that improved marketing and product campaigns, developed LTV, and forecasting solutions.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to address business challenges, recommending data-driven solutions.
• Contributed to product design and planning with supporting data insights and segmentation.

Apr 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Built Data Science Solutions to Optimise Healthcare Operations, Planning, and Infrastructure.
• Modeled and analysed patient activity within hospitals using event data from hospital management systems.
• Enabled the scalable operational modelling of hospitals using discrete event simulations to identify bottlenecks and optimise resource allocation.
• Recommended optimal locations for primary and secondary health centres using location planning methods.
• Developed geospatial visualisations of disease incidence rates and travel dependencies between districts in India, to support public health planning.

Jun 2016 – Feb 2017 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Founded Conversational Commerce Start-up
• Led the conceptualisation and implementation of a conversational commerce platform tailored for banking services.
• Designed and deployed a chatbot solution leveraging domain-specific language ontology to enhance user interactions.
• The goal was to drive innovation in sectors such as banking by delivering AI-driven solutions that improved customer engagement and streamline operations process.

Sep 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Delivered Technical Consulting in NLP and Information Extraction domains
• Provided a technical roadmap and implementation support for supply and demand-side analytics in the HR domain for a global research and advisory firm.
• Led large-scale information extraction and data mining for job postings and resumes from more than 20 online sources.
• Helped derive intelligent analytics on extracted data to identify trends and relationships.

Apr 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Delivered Technical Consulting in Information Retrieval and NLP Applications
• Developed a high-performance storage and search solution for social media text with integrated annotations.
• Designed and implemented chatbots for question answering from knowledge bases

Jun 2011 – Oct 2011 · 4 mos

• Developed Software for Biomedical Information Retrieval Research
• Developed a search system that interrogates biomedical texts using structured queries.
• Involved in pre-processing medical research documents, query processing, and experimenting with ranking algorithms to optimise search metrics.
• Contributed to advancing information retrieval techniques in the biomedical domain through research-driven software development.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 · 4 yrs

• Discontinued
• Specialized in Computational Linguistics, focusing on efficient querying of large-scale, linguistically annotated text corpora through innovative storage and indexing techniques.

Dec 2007 – Mar 2008 · 3 mos

• Studied text corpora, storage, and query languages of linguistic tools
• Submitted a technical report on the role of databases in text applications

Aug 2003 – Jul 2006 · 2 yrs 11 mos · India, United States

• Enterprise Software Development in Java and Ruby for Large-Scale Applications
• Designed and developed enterprise software, including frontend and backend systems for a large leasing corporation in the US.
• Built multiple web applications using Ruby on Rails, adhering to agile methodologies with a test-first development approach.
• Contributed to the development and management of CI/CD pipelines and automation to streamline deployment processes.