Kunal Anand

Product Manager

West Delhi, Delhi, India4 yrs 3 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in designing scalable data solutions.
  • Proven track record in AI and machine learning projects.
  • Strong background in cloud technologies and data engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineer and AI Specialist in the SaaS and Fintech sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Apache KafkaAwsAiCustomer SuccessNlpData ScienceData EngineeringEtlComputer VisionData AnalysisBusiness Intelligence

Other Skills

Advanced Microsoft Excel(Macros & Power Query)AgentsAgileAgile MethodologiesAirflowAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache SparkBI/AnalyticsBig DataBlob StorageBusiness Intelligence (BI)Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Chatbots

About

๐Ÿ“Œ I am a Solutions Engineer at Confluent with over 4 Y.O.E in IT. Previously, I worked as a Data Engineer & Scientist at Cognizant. With a strong background in programming and a deep passion for tech, I thrive on designing scalable solutions & enabling data-driven decision-making across business domains. ๐Ÿ“Œ My professional experience spans a broad spectrum of technologies & domains, including Cloud Platforms s.a. (AWS, GCP, Azure), Python, Linux, SQL & NoSQL, Data Modeling, Data Structures, Statistics, Big Data (MapReduce, Spark, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Kafka, Flink), Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, GenAI, LLMs & RAG, Chatbots, ETL/ELT Pipelines & Cloud SaaS DW/DL s.a. (S3, Glue, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB), Airflow, Data Mining & BI/Analytics via Pandas, Numpy, plotly, seaborn, Matplotlib and Tools s.a. (Tableau, ThoughtSpot, QuickSight), MlOps & ML libs/framework as Sklearn, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Langchain, Phidata, Regex, OLAP (Redshift, ElasticSearch) & OLTP (RDS, DynamoDB), In-Memory (ElastiCache), PAAS (Docker, Kubernetes, Lambda), IAAS/C (Ec2, Terraform), Messaging Services (SNS, SQS, Kinesis), DR/HA & Scalable systems, Git, Agile, DevOps & CI/CD, Rest API, FinTech, Presales, Security & Monitoring, Salesforce CRM & Developer, and SDLC. ๐Ÿ“Œ I also hold industry-recognized certifications, including the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, and Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka. ๐Ÿ“Œ Expertise in GenAI/Agentic AI: [Gemini, OpenAI, Groq, AI Agents, Prompt Engineering, Fine-tuning, Vector DBs & Indexing, Knowledge Base, MTEB, Hugging Face] ๐Ÿ”ง AI/ML: [Deep Learning, Image Processing, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, Phidata, LLMs, RAG, Ensemble Methods, Model & Hyper-para tuning] ๐Ÿ”ง MLOps: [MLFlow, Sagemaker, Model Drifts, CI/CD, PAAS Tools] ๐Ÿ“Œ Expertise in Full Stack Tech: Frontend - [HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript] ; Backend - [NOSQL, Django, Flask, Streamlit] ๐Ÿš€ Graduated - B. Tech in CSE [Specialization: Data Science & Artificial Intelligence] from The NorthCap University ๐ŸŒŸ Resume & Cover Letter: โž” drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1gI1W7KY1Iu8sbHMxe0sKlvPR4XKWBkie ๐ŸŒŸ Contact Details: โž” Mail ID: kunalanand2907@gmail.com โž” Phone Number: +917042939501 Thanks for reviewing my profile! Iโ€™d love to connect with professionals sharing common passions and explore exciting opportunities. Looking forward to connecting & collaborating!

Experience

4 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
7 mos
Current Experience

Exl

Data Scientist (Lead Assistant Manager)

Sep 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 7 mos

Confluent CloudTerraformDocker ContainerKubernetesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Salesforce CRM+13

Confluent

Solutions Engineer

Mar 2024 โ€“ Sep 2025 ยท 1 yr 6 mos ยท Bengaluru ยท Hybrid

  • ๐ŸŒŸ Part of the Global Shared Technical Services Team driving $116M in TACV for Q3, maintained an exceptional 100% CSAT score and SME for Kafka Connect/Connectors & drove initiatives in AI Assistant, Real-Time Streams via ksqlDB/Flink, and Schema Registry.
  • โœ” Technical Discovery & Solution Design: Led technical discovery and architectural discussions for 20+ clients, developed POCs/Pilots, addressed customer challenges and enabled Presales [Commercial & Enterprise] accounts to overcome technical challenges.
  • โœ” Led development of the Confluent AI Assistant (menu-based, rule-based, and AI-driven) as part of the Drift AI Team, automated client support and enhanced user experience by streamlining access to Confluent Cloud documentation and guides.
  • โœ” Tailored Demos & Product Evangelization: Partnered with cross-functional and marketing teams to deliver over 30 customized demos that showcased Confluent's unique value proposition, including Confluent Cloud (SaaS), Platform (On-Premise), Kafka 101, RAG with Data Stream Demos and various technical sessions, reaching an audience of 200+ key stakeholders.
  • โœ” Customer Success & ETL: Developed and optimized batch & real-time data pipelines via Kafka, Flink, ksqlDB, and Airflow, driving a 40% increase in platform usage by enabling new use cases through deep business/technical reviews, including stream lineage, governance, schema evolution/compatibility, and data portal insights.
  • โœ” RFPs & Artifacts: Supported 50+ SQs. Developed 10+ success plans and architecture blueprints for streaming ETL stacks (Connect, Spark, glue), covering secure deployment, network setups, and enablement workshops tailored to production systems.
PythonNLPPypdfComputer VisionForm Recognizertext-to-SQL+14

Cognizant

2 roles

Data Scientist

Promoted

Nov 2023 โ€“ Mar 2024 ยท 4 mos ยท Gurugram, Haryana, India ยท Hybrid

  • ๐Ÿ”ง Skills: Python, NLP, Pypdf, Computer Vision, Form Recognizer, text-to-SQL, Langchain, LLMs, GPT, OCR, Agents, Vector DB & Indexing, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Synapse Analytics, Regex, Power BI, Blob Storage, and Cosmos DB.
  • ๐ŸŒŸ Cognizant Data & AI Team (FinTech):
  • โœ” Rate Card - Developed a scalable solution to extract insights from unstructured sources such as images, audio, and text data (JSON, Parquet, PDF, CSV) related to SOW/MSA agreements between Cognizant and Clients. The no. of pages ranges from 20-500, with over 50 key attributes extracted (e.g., name, industry, onsite/offshore, bill location, skillset, JD, salary, experience, work hours, timezone, currency, UOM, regular/overtime, level, remarks). Leveraged NLP, pandas, and prompts for Text processing with fine-tuning & model drift accuracy improved by 75%, while reducing execution & monitoring time by 60%. The final outputs are compiled into a Rate Card, which serves as a recommender engine for aligning employees to roles and, conversely, clients to employees.
  • โœ” Conversational AI FAQ Chatbot - This is used for live support and is integrated as a widget within the Cognizant application. The bot is an agnostic backend engine that works with any frontend chat interface, while the client-server interface is created using Streamlit. This solution has automated 80% custom queries & enhanced support query resolution efficiency by 91%.
Apache AirflowGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Data WarehouseAmazon Web Services (AWS)Machine LearningPython (Programming Language)+15

Data Engineer

Jan 2022 โ€“ Nov 2023 ยท 1 yr 10 mos ยท Gurugram, Haryana, India ยท Hybrid

  • ๐ŸŒŸ Client: Ascension Healthcare (Hospitals & Insurance)
  • โœ” Spearheaded the gathering and processing (Data quality, contracts, schemas, Feature engineering, scaling, masking) of batch data from TPAs, ensuring high-quality, contract-compliant Data ingestion. Optimised Data integrity and Governance by implementing standardized frameworks across GCP (Gcs, BigQuery, Dataproc, Pub-Sub, Dataflow) and Snowflake/ Databricks. Enhanced efficiency through a metadata-driven SQL and PySpark framework, enabling seamless Data modeling, catalog, mining, and a suite of interactive, data-driven reports for actionable insights.
  • โœ” Developed, tested, and Built Data pipelines (ETL/ELT) and monitored Airflow jobs, validated data by firing complex Queries, and visualized results via Looker, reducing pipeline management and monitoring time by 40%, and data load and processing times by 70%.
  • โœ” Provided technical assistance to product and design teams, performing ad-hoc analysis to mitigate and identify the source of failure, and executed Sprint deliverables in JIRA using Agile methodologies.
  • โœ” Improved query performance by 50% via SQL Best Practices & Spark optimizations, including query plan analysis, indexing, views, partitioning, sharding and engine configs.
  • โœ” Analyzed any failures occurring during production and quality assurance deployments.
MediapipeMicrosoft ExcelPython (Programming Language)Nvdia Cuda & CudnnOptical Character Recognition (OCR)Natural Language Processing (NLP)+5

Evolv fit

Data Scientist

Aug 2021 โ€“ Oct 2021 ยท 2 mos ยท New Delhi, Delhi, India ยท Remote

  • ๐Ÿ”ง Skills: Image Processing, Open CV, Python, OCR, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Nvidia Cuda & cuDNN, GPU
  • ๐ŸŒŸ Sector: Health & Fitness
  • โœ” Developed an AI Proctored Gym Trainer App including features s.a. (Exercise Rep Counter, Exercise Classification & Intensity Level Check by MediaPipe) for around 200+ Exercises.
  • โœ” Extracted Text from Food Packages to create a Database for Recipes, Nutrients, & Ingredients via NLP to manipulate Linguistic Data to get Semantic info w.r.t Word Embedding & used Deep Learning Models to build Recipes Nutrient Diet Recommendation System.
Python (Programming Language)Business Intelligence (BI)Data AnalysisGitHubData Science

Widhya

Machine Learning Intern

Jan 2021 โ€“ Mar 2021 ยท 2 mos ยท Delhi, India

  • ๐Ÿ”น Work Link: https://github.com/KunalAnand2907/Widhya_Internship
  • โœ” Predict the percentage Of Students based on Study Hours.
  • โœ” Performing Clustering on IRIS DATASET & Finding The Optimal Number Of Clusters.
  • โœ” Perform Exploratory Data Analysis Using IPL Dataset.
  • โœ” IRIS Dataset Implementation using Decision Trees On The Dataset and Visualize it by Decision Tree.
Microsoft ExcelAmazon Web Services (AWS)Python (Programming Language)TableauBusiness Intelligence (BI)Advanced Microsoft Excel(Macros & Power Query)+3

F13 technologies

Data Analyst Intern

May 2020 โ€“ Aug 2020 ยท 3 mos ยท New Delhi, Delhi, India ยท Remote

  • ๐Ÿ”ง Skills: Python, Tableau, Advance Excel, Knime Analytics, AWS, Adobe Photoshop
  • ๐ŸŒŸ Sector: Ed-Tech
  • โœ” Spearheaded a comprehensive data project covering the entire Indian education system (schools & colleges). Collected, structured, and cleaned large-scale datasets using Excel (Power Query, Macros) and advanced data strategies.
  • โœ” Designed interactive dashboards in Tableau and performed data analysis in Python, enabling clear insights and actionable intelligence for the Ed-Tech service team.

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Software Engineering Virtual Experience

May 2020 โ€“ May 2020 ยท 0 mo

jQueryCascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Education

The NorthCap University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science Engineering โ€” CSE

Jul 2018 โ€“ May 2022

Manav Sthali School - India

PCM - Non Medical โ€” Education

Jan 2004 โ€“ Jan 2018

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