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Harish Saragadam

CTO

United States12 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led cross-functional teams across multiple countries.
  • Developed innovative AI solutions for diverse industries.
  • Passionate mentor empowering the next generation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and Data Science across multiple industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Data ScienceBusiness StrategyThought LeadershipMachine LearningData EngineeringNatural Language ProcessingData AnalysisWeb ScrapingSupply Chain Analytics

Other Skills

AIGenAIAgentic AIMLOpsStrategic PlanningText MiningStatistical ModelingPySparkAzureNLPText AnalyticsPythonStorytellingLarge Language Models (LLM)Accounting and Finance

About

My professional journey mirrors my unwavering commitment to excellence and leadership. I have spent years at the forefront of building high-performance teams and conceptualizing AI products that transcend industry boundaries. My journey has spanned diverse sectors, from E-commerce and Finance to Manufacturing and Digital Domains. My proficiency in harnessing advanced technologies such as Deep Learning, GenAI, NLP, and Machine Learning, along with my expertise in machine reasoning, has consistently translated into tangible, value-driven outcomes Additionally, I have assumed the role of an angel investor in Tutedude, an organization passionately committed to nurturing the creative prowess of young minds in India. Our mission is to provide them with mentorship from accomplished professionals to facilitate their journey towards reaching their full potential. This endeavor not only aligns with my fervor for mentorship but also underscores my commitment to giving back to the community by empowering the next generation of leaders One of my most significant achievements revolves around my leadership in the Op-Ex Forecast project at HP Inc. This transcendent project was not merely about data and technology; it was about fostering collaboration across diverse realms of functional expertise within HP. I worked in tandem with teams hailing from Singapore, India, Mexico, the USA, and Spain, transcending geographical and cultural divides to instill faith in the potential of this tool. Rather than posing a threat to jobs, my approach revolved around upskilling and empowering the workforce to harness the tool's capabilities effectively Similarly, during my tenure at Ericsson, I led the Cognitive Healing project to resounding success. This remarkable journey brought together teams from Egypt and Sweden. Through tireless effort, I cultivated unwavering confidence in the tool's capabilities within these diverse teams. I also forged close partnerships with NDO (Networks and Digital Operations) teams to devise a go-to-market strategy. Our strategy featured a flexible pricing model, charging users based on API calls for resolution/healing My educational background includes a Master of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, where I served as the South Student Association President and held leadership roles in various student organizations My goal/vision is to lead transformational endeavors at the intersection of data science and business leadership

Experience

12 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 4 mos
Current Experience

Vodafone idea limited

Vice President & Head of AI and Analytics

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos · On-site

  • I lead Vodafone Idea’s AI Solutions & Tools function, driving the vision, development, and scaled deployment of AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI products across Core, RAN, Transport, and IT domains.
  • Key responsibilities:
  • Leading a cross-functional team of 58 professionals, including 40 PMS experts and 18 specialists in Data Science, GenAI, MLOps, and Data Engineering, focused on building impactful AI software solutions.
  • Architecting and executing the strategic roadmap for AI-driven transformation, with a focus on network performance management, automation, predictive analytics, and fault/root cause systems.
  • Designing and delivering GenAI and Agentic AI use cases to automate intelligence across the network lifecycle and IT operations.
  • Overseeing operational delivery, performance governance, and resource planning to ensure consistent alignment with business KPIs.
  • Driving collaboration with senior leadership across Core, RAN, Transport, and IT to ensure strategic alignment and solution adoption.
  • Managing partnerships with external AI vendors and research bodies to accelerate innovation and enhance solution maturity.
  • Building a high-performance team culture through mentoring, capability uplift, and cross-domain knowledge integration.
AIGenAIAgentic AIData ScienceMLOpsData Engineering+1

Tutedude

Angel Investor

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Thought LeadershipBusiness StrategyStrategic Planning

Ericsson

Data Science Ericsson(Global AI Accelerator)

Jul 2021Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • As a visionary leader in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning, I have demonstrated exceptional leadership abilities in creating, implementing, and managing GENAI use cases with special projects on Text to SQL in LLM's . My focus on developing machine reasoning skills in the workforce has led to groundbreaking results.
  • Taking ownership of anomaly detection and issue classification on mobile networks, I have excelled as the product owner for latency and throughput degradation products, ensuring superior performance for our clients.
  • As a thought leader in AI/ML projects, I have ideated, built, and deployed end-to-end solutions on client infrastructure, driving innovation in the industry. Nurturing and building AI teams in the Global AI accelerator, I have fostered a culture of excellence.
  • My expertise in driving new-age solutions, such as Machine Reasoning for telecom clients, showcases my ability to identify and capitalize on emerging trends. As the product owner for the Ticket Intelligence Prediction System (TIPS), I have developed go-to-market strategies and collaborated closely with NDO teams for successful product launches.
  • Deploying machine learning and AI models for streaming network data on client cloud infrastructure, I have revolutionized data analysis, processing, and feature selection algorithms using Spark's powerful libraries.
  • Democratizing TIPS across all Ericsson customers, I have made AI accessible and user-friendly. My proficiency in controlling conversations and influencing stakeholders has been instrumental in achieving positive outcomes.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningText MiningStatistical ModelingPySpark

Hp

2 roles

Principal Data Scientist

Promoted

Nov 2020Jul 2021 · 8 mos

  • Lead teams on Data Science and Data analytics projects. Delivered end-to-end solutions on Scenario modelling on Revenue Gross Margins. Built vendor authentication mechanisms for Credit and Collection,Treasury teams. Worked and deployed models on Azure,Databricks, PowerBi and Webapps.
Data ScienceMachine LearningStatistical ModelingAzure

Senior Lead Data Scientist

May 2017Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Developed social media sentiment tool to access product sentiment in the market using web scraping, text analytics and NLP. The product sentiment can be captured at the country level, Thereby can find the riskier countries and take necessary action to fulfill customers expectations.
  • Built an SEC scraper which scrapes 10K filings data in a meaning ful way based on sections and compare accounting policy changes in the company using accounting policy dictionary(Lexicon based).
  • US PC Profitability (Big Deal and AUP Change)
  • Objective:The objective of the project is link the Big Deals that are signed between Hp and Customers to AUP change of the SKU's
  • Algorithm: Customer segmentation is done. Analysis is carried out over the segments when ever a new Big deal signed. The AUP(Average unit price) foR that particular sku is reflected immediately on a insighful dashboard.Where the sales team can bridge the price changes and sell at changed prices which saved HP almost 10% of there revenue.
  • Use of skillset - Dashboard is Buit on PowerBI. Used Python to connect to Vertica DB and run price change algorithm and clustering analysis was done over 25K customer companies of HP and 68 Billion records.
  • Asset Classification using Web Scraping NLP and Machine Learning
  • Objective: The project is aimed at identifying the asset type by creating algorithm which searches the description of asset in web and analyse the description using Natural language processing. The processed output of NLP algorithm is fed into supervised self-improving machine learning classifier to classify the asset into it’s original Asset Type.
  • Ap Cash forecast: Implementation of AP cash flow with the highest accuracy possible with data using a baseline Facebook prophet model and creating a new package around it which align with HP requirements.
Web ScrapingNLPText AnalyticsData AnalysisNatural Language Processing

Edureka

Training Consultant & Strategy Mentor

Jan 2020Dec 2020 · 11 mos · India · Remote

  • Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
  • Delivered live online sessions and guided learners through projects and assignments.
  • Provided academic and technical mentorship to help students and professionals achieve learning goals.
  • Mentored over 5,000 students/professionals with high satisfaction and course completion rates.
Data ScienceMachine LearningStatistical Modeling

S&p global

Senior Data Scientist

Jan 2016May 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Made web scraper to scrape articles from financial websites and scrape company notes from SEC
  • Developed news article senti analyzer in predicting stock prices
  • Designed and Developed Alarm tool (Asset-wise Liquidity assessment and risk monitoring) using Python and D3.
  • Built tool for accessing asset manager’s performance in Matlab for a leading finance client
  • Created US airline market research insights based dashboard in Qlikview
  • Built resume parsing tool for fetching candidate data automatically.
  • Petco Customer classification:
  • Done Customer segmentation using KMEANS,DBSCAN
Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Genpact

Data Scientist

Jul 2013Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Experienced in Supply Chain analytics based consulting, focusing on different business objectives across diverse geographies in multiple categories and consumer segments.
  • Designed and developed VCP(Variable cost productivity) and DMP(Direct material productivity) assessment tool
  • Data Science projects :
  • Out Ex service Forecast: To forecast servicing time of a machinery.Thereby alerting the maintenance teams to maintain inventory.
  • Demand Forecast : Done sales forecast and productivity forecast using time series data
  • Fault Forecast : Identified machines which need servcing based on there current levels and classified
  • them using SVM,Decision Trees
Web ScrapingData AnalysisPython

Teri - the energy and resources institute

Research Intern

Jul 2012May 2013 · 10 mos · Delhi, India · On-site

Supply Chain AnalyticsData Science

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Narayana Junior College - India

High school

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