Aug 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• ✅ Head of GenAI Labs leading development of innovative solutions using GenAI and Machine Learning.
• ✅Leading multiple GenAI projects for enhancing productivity/efficiency and CX for Banks, Insurance and Energy companies.
• ✅ Delivery Leader for Advanced analytics engagement for one of the largest Bank in UAE.
• ✅ Focused on growth of organization through consultative sales

Jul 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• As a co-founder, I lead the business and technical aspects of the organization focussed on:
• ✅ Data Science and AI Consulting for Banking and Fintech firms.
• ✅ Conduct AI & ML workshops for Business Leaders and Senior IT Professionals.
• ✅ Industry focused data science training in BFSI , Retail, E-Commerce, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain.
• ✅ Partnered with Universities to conduct courses in Supply Chain analytics, and Business analytics.
• ✅ Conduct freelance trainings and masterclasses in Deep Learning and NLP for various EdTech firms.

Aug 2018 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ✅ Led to development and delivery of analytics products targeted towards Financial Clients.
• ✅ Lead a mid-sized team of highly qualified data scientist to develop data science products used by world's leading commodity traders, equity and FFA traders and big miners and shipping companies.
• ✅ Developed and execute product enhancement road-map working along with Business leaders, Product managers and Industry analysts.
• ✅ Coordinate across various functional teams of data engineers, platform engineers, BI analysts and product managers to deliver on agreed product road-map.
• ✅ Represent IHS in external events and lead India-centric initiatives on people recognition, branding and recruitment.

Sep 2016 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Lead a team of highly skilled Data Scientists and Data Engineers to build and deploy state of art data science and cognitive application for Fortune 100 clients.
• Worked on the area of Predictive Maintenance and developed machine learning system to predict equipment failure, leading the better maintenance and reduced operational cost.
• Developed analytics solutions to solve issues in IT operations including automated ticket classification, ticket volume forecast, and chatbot to answer user queries using IBM Watson.

Mar 2012 – Aug 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore, India

• Successfully led a team of over 70+ member team, providing analytics and consulting services in the area of e-commerce and digital analytics for multiple big North American clients. Set-up and scaled Digital marketing optimization team in multiple locations for the largest online advertising company.
• Lead the development of Enterprise Data science platform, integrated open source data science tools with Enterprise Data Lake, and migrated all enterprise projects to open source tools. Drove adoption of open source technology in the organization by running training programs and successfully migrated all projects to open source technology.
• Worked with multiple corporate functions as an internal consultant and used analytics to drive value for the enterprise. Developed predictive models to improve the Global risk management processes and tools.

Jun 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore, India

• Lead a team of analyst/consultant to provide analytics insights for HP's E-commerce business:
• Analyze sales and inventory, build sales forecast model and analyze channel partner performance for managing inventory and logistics for made-to-order personal computers
• Analyze impact of direct marketing programs and support development of marketing promotions
• Develop statistical models to forecast online sales, identify customer churn and competitive pricing strategies.

May 2007 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Memphis, Tennessee

• Worked as an internal consultant to senior business leaders, acting as analytics SME to deliver insights for :
• developing business case for new product/service launches
• identifying logistic industry trends, benchmark competitors and identify new market opportunities
• analyze large datasets using SAS/SQL/Teradata to derive insights on customer shipping trends, shipping products and usage of retail outlets and tech platforms of FedEx

Jul 2003 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune Area, India

• Development of machining simulation, and FEM analysis in Pro Engineer using C & C++
• GUI development for the product.

Jan 2002 – Jul 2003 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Development of CAD simulation software using C/C++, OpenGL on UNIX, LINUX and Windows environment.

Jul 2001 – Jan 2002 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India