WayCool Foods

• Volume forecasting of fresh fruits and vegetables to reduce wastage and cost. Used a combination of outlier detection, smoothing and forecasting methods to generate forecasts in production
• Time series forecasting applied in various areas such as price forecasting and yield forecasting.
• Brand analytics to detect affinity and basket suggestions – Used various basket analysis methods such as apriori algorithm and association rule mining to come up with insights which help the stores stock up their inventory
• Route optimization for vehicles and salesmen beat planning – Framework to solve vehicle packing problem as well as Capacitated Vehicle Routing to help plan the delivery logistics efficiently
• Develop models for commodity trading
• Fraud analytics
• Proof of Concepts to illustrate possibilities to business teams - built close to a 100 PoCs

Head of Data Science

Curiosearch

The group creates deep learning models in the field of computer vision.
Was set with the task of creating prediction models in the field of apparel/fashion.
• Designed models to develop tags for apparel – western wear, ethnic wear, footwear, jewelry, watches, handbags etc., using deep learning. We used Yolov5 for object detection/ classification and neural nets tuned on Resnet-50 for attribute prediction.
• Similar apparel search – Oversaw the development of framework for searching near – alike (not duplicate) images within a catalogue. This framework led to two patents.
• Worked across the lifecycle of the product development – from obtaining image sets to deployment of attribute enrichment APIs.
• Product development done with internal and external team to obtain maximum accuracy (prediction accuracy of greater than 85%)

Head of Data Science and Products

Rytha

Founder

Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA)

Shaping the investment attraction space for Saudi Arabia through Data Science, Artificial intelligence and Machine learning.

The government entity responsible for attracting foreign/domestic direct investment to Saudi Arabia
Was set with the task of setting up and executing bleeding-edge data science programs in short order.
• In the absence of depth of data scientist talent in the region, decided to access global talent through vendors.
• Wrote 5 RFPs (Investor Lead identification and conversion, National Offer Portal, Investor engagement, Investor integrated information hub, 
global sentiment analysis) and successfully floated them through the government contract process within 3 months – from vendor identification to 
scripting the RFPs.
• Invited top global vendors to participate and respond with their proposals.
• Defended the budget with various oversight committees from various government organizations.
• Secured a budget of $7 million for these projects for the first year.
• Evaluated the responses and proposed the top vendor to the Governor.
• Executed the programs in coordination with internal stakeholders – IT, DevOps, Marketing, and Operations teams.
• Held periodic meetings with external stakeholders (National Information Center, General Authority of Statistics, Ministry of Data, and various other 
ministries and entities) to obtain concurrence on data management and governance.
• Drove a central data management strategy across the various organizations on the cloud (within SA) to address data sovereignty concerns.
• Sought and set taxonomy standards to enable information exchange across various government entities.
• Secured one message channel to obtain “single source of truth” across the country for indicative statistics.

Mindtree

Director

Yahoo!

P & L for outsourced product development
Yahoo! in India included software engineering teams, fraud prevention and ad teams.
Talent acquisition through vendors - (Expense oversight of US$ 30 million which was over 50% of Yahoo's spend in India).
• Designed decision matrix to ascertain all outsourcing needs of Yahoo in India, including vendor management and hiring of all sub-contractors/temp 
staff in India.
• Vendor management - Select, empanel, review performance; set goals, direction, communication.
• Business alignment - Alignment to goals of various business units and internal stakeholders.
• Intellectual property safeguards – Established standards for vendors in creating/maintaining Outsourced Development Centers with consensus and 
combined effort from IT, DevOps, NetOps, Security, and other teams.
• Compliance - Drive audits to ensure compliance.
• Achieved recurrent savings of over $1.5 million annually by clearing loose ends in contractual terms.
• Cleared invoices pending from as far back as 8 years (vendor had resigned to the option of write-off), to restore partner trust.
• Negotiated internally with the CFO to win an exception of payment cycle of 30 days as against the norm of 90 days. This helped us get better rates,
and more engagement from vendors.
• Grew from a 265 to a 700+ contingent workforce in the span of 1 year, across a broad spectrum of vendors, from contract staffing vendors to the 
largest IT majors such as Infosys, HCL and TCS.
• Developed a 326-seat ODC at HCL in 3 months, followed by a 150-seat ODC at TCS and 90-seat ODC at Infosys.

Program Manager (Outsourced Product Development)

Dell

Data mining and analysis to determine and set quarterly and annual goals for US, UK and India tech support
Drive data-centric decisions and strategy to align organization vision with customer needs

Set up and lead an IT Support organization overseeing the support functions and development of enterprise-class tools.
•	Global strategic planning and execution of all Support-related functions
•	Extensive interfacing with internal sales and business executives involved in leading IT strategies, enabling business strategies, project portfolio management and delivery.
•	Interface with external business executives and customers worldwide
•	Formal presentations and keynote speeches to executives
•	Partner and vendor management
•	Overall Technical leadership within all levels of the organization

Technology Program Manager

IBM Global Services

As Lean Coach, provided Lean Six Sigma knowledge and expertise to key accounts
Orchestrated Lean Six Sigma training needs for Bangalore location. Coached value-stream managers in the 5-step current state assessment, future state design, and implementation plans
Key Accomplishments:
•	Exceeded $1 million annual savings target to achieve over $4 million in annual savings.
•	Organized training for over 400 employees in Lean Six Sigma.

Lean Six Sigma Consultant

Fidelity

Key Accomplishments:
•	Set up offshore team
•	Received President’s Kaizen award

Senior Software Engineer

iGATE Global Solutions

Senior Software Developer

With over 2 decades in IT and 10 years of experience in data science, I am a leader who combines technical expertise, business acumen, and project management skills to create innovative solutions that deliver value to customers, stakeholders, and the environment.

Some of the projects I have worked on include volume forecasting of fresh fruits and vegetables to reduce wastage and cost, brand analytics to detect affinity and basket suggestions, and route optimization for vehicles and salesmen beat planning. I have also designed and developed models for tag generation and similar apparel search in the field of computer vision, leading to two patents. I am passionate about using data to drive innovation and impact.

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