Senior Data Scientist - AI/ML & Data Engineering Leader

Srinivasa Karur

Professional Summary

Results-driven professional AI/ML Consultant - Data Scientist & Data Engineer with 15+ years of global experience (including the USA), and over 5 years specializing in AI/ML, NLP, LLMs, RAG, Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, MLOps, and Data Visualization. Proven expertise in architecting and delivering full-stack data and machine learning solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Certified in Data Science & AI from IIT Madras, with a strong foundation in predictive modeling, deep learning, NLP, MLOps pipelines, and scalable data engineering (ETL). Adept at stakeholder engagement, cross-functional collaboration, and driving innovation through data. Renowned for solving complex problems and leveraging advanced analytics to support strategic decisions in fast-paced, evolving environments.

Work History

Msys Inc, Washington, DC - AI/ML Consultant Analyst / Data Scientist / Data Engineer

Washington, DC

03/2024 - Current

• Developed a dynamic pricing model using Random Forest & Gradient Boosting, increasing revenue by 15% in 3 months.

• Automated pricing pipeline using Flask REST API; reduced manual interventions by 80%.

• Built CI/CD for deployment on AWS; implemented real-time monitoring via Power BI.

• Conducted A/B testing, customer feedback analysis, and retrained model for continuous improvement.

• Role included gathering business requirements, architecture, proposing techniques, frameworks and algorithms, and Data collection, data ETL process, Model development, Deployment, visualization, and monitoring.

Baxter, Deerfield, IL - Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer Deerfield, IL

12/2023 - 03/2024

• Forecasted monthly product sales using LSTM, SARIMA, and GBM models, improving inventory accuracy.

• Conducted EDA, feature engineering, and seasonal trend analysis across 5 years of sales data.

• Deployed forecasting API via Docker on AWS EC2; integrated monitoring for MAE and MAPE.

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Skills

• Soft Skills: Lead workshops,

stakeholder discussions, achieving

group consensus, Problem Solving,

Business strategy, storytelling,

Communication Skills, Affinity

toward learning, Humble,

Hardworking, Collaborative and

leadership.

• Project Skills: Collaborate with

cross-functional teams to define

project requirements, architect, and

execute technically rigorous results

and lead the design and

development of scalable and

efficient software architectures

including prototyping, optimizing,

deploying ML Algorithms.

• AI/ML/Data scientist skills:

Experience in Designing,

Architecture, Modelling,

explainable AI applications,

building machine learning

algorithms supervised and

unsupervised learning and deep

learning models, statistical

modeling, NLP's, LLM's,

Foundation Models, Generative AI

Models s and techniques (GANs,

VAEs, LLMs), prompt engineering,

RAG's, computer vision thorough

experimentation, evaluation, and

optimization of ML models.

• Feature extraction: feature selection

techniques, correlators, test data

preparation and defining the

SK

Caterpillar, Peoria, IL - Analyst / AI/ML Developer Peoria, IL

08/2023 - 11/2023

• Built Generative AI solution with fine-tuned BERT to highlight key document sections.

• Deployed search interface using Flask and Docker Compose; reduced search time by >60%.

Amgen Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA - Lead Analyst / AI Prompt Engineer Thousand Oaks, CA

04/2023 - 08/2023

• Designed effective prompts for LLMs (OpenAI) for sentiment analysis, summarization, multilingual response.

• Created prompt library and evaluation pipeline (BLEU, ROUGE, Human Eval) for production readiness.

• Deployed web interface and containerized solution on AWS cloud. Tek Analytics, Schaumburg, IL - Analyst /Data Engineer Schaumburg, IL

12/2022 - 03/2023

• Built foundational data pipelines using Kafka, Spark, and Flume for B2B customer analytics.

• Enabled real-time ingestion and transformed data for marketing & engagement dashboards.

Tek Analytics, Schaumburg, IL - Data Engineer / Data Scientist /Analyst Schaumburg, IL

08/2022 - 11/2022

• Ensuring high-quality data for targeted marketing campaigns and comprehensive data analytics.

• Delivered real-time campaign analytics using Airflow, Snowflake, Spark, Power BI.

• Built end-to-end pipelines from e-commerce and social data sources; drove 18% campaign efficiency.

• Projects aimed at enhancing business revenue, customer success, and operational excellence including Reports on customer acquisition, engagement, and retention

Wintrust, Rosemont, IL - Analyst / Data Scientist

Rosemont, IL

02/2022 - 07/2022

• Customer Segmentation for Bank Marketing Strategies: The goal of this project is to study and predict the right group of new customers for a Bank, so the company can adopt the specific proven marketing strategy to each of them and be more successful in the business. Based on all classifiers score.

• Developed customer segmentation using AdaBoost, Decision Trees; improved targeting by 25%.

models, deploying machine

learning models.

• Practical experience: In the

following techniques: Linear &

Logistic Regression, Tree Models-

Decision Trees, Random Forests,

Gradient Boosted ensemble models

Clustering Models- K-Nearest

Neighbors, Density-based

Clustering, Subsampling,

Evolutionary Algorithms, SVMs

Models, Neural Networks,

Convolutional Networks, Recurrent

Networks Models, Computer

vision, Graph Models, Series,

Evolutionary, Geospatial Models

• Data Engineering Skills: Defining

data needs, evaluate data quality,

Data modeling, Dimensional

Modelling, Data warehousing, Data

Lake Architecture, data pipelines

design, perform and critique

appropriate statistical analyses

using software such as, Python,

MATLAB, and/or Splus. Explore,

determine & develop technical

approaches to be used and apply

them on major challenges.

• ETL Skills: Proven ability in

solutioning covering data ingestion,

data cleansing, ETL, data mart

creation and exposing data for

consumers, Data Validation, and

Proven skills in translating analytics

output to actionable

recommendations and delivery.

• Technology Skills: Experience with

cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

for AI model deployment.

• Design and architecture of high

quality, complex CI/CD pipeline for

model development, Deployment,

Dev ops, MLOps

• Dev ops/ML Ops Skills: ML Flow,

Model Registry, Experiment

tracking, Model Serving, Model

Monitoring, ML Agile Method,

Code Development, Code Review,

Release, Artifact Management

• Delivered actionable insights via Power BI and Jupiter-based visual reports.

Posh mark, Redwood, CA - Analyst / Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer

Redwood, CA

07/2021 - 01/2022

• Built recommendation engine using hybrid collaborative filtering and popularity-based model.

• Boosted conversion by 20% and reduced RMSE by 15% through tuning and A/B testing. Boosted user engagement metrics by 25%, Lear Corporation, Southfield MI - Analyst / Data Scientist/ Data Engineer/Dev Ops

Southfield, MI

09/2020 - 06/2021

• Built electricity price prediction model with time-series data using XG Boost and LSTM.

• Created ETL pipelines and deployed model via MLflow; visualized trends via Prometheus + Grafana.

IIT Madras (Training AI/ML) - Data Scientist /ML Engineer /Analyst/Sr Developer

Madras, India

07/2019 - 08/2020

• Created Flask-based ML app for healthcare cost prediction, deployed on Azure using Docker.

• Built regression pipelines, conducted EDA, integrated CI/CD and API services.

McKesson, Pharma Company, San Francisco, CA - Datawarehouse Analyst /Architect/Data Engineer

San Francisco, CA

08/2015 - 06/2019

• Implemented project Business Planning and forecasting by using SAP BPC10.1 on BW7.40(Datawarehouse) on HANA. The project consists of implementing Datawarehouse and upgrading SEM /BW to BW 7.40 on HANA(Cloud)

AES Energy, Washington D.C. - Datawarehouse Lead Analyst

/Architect/Data Engineer

Washington D.C.

08/2014 - 07/2015

Kraft Foods Inc., Foods Company, Chicago, IL (IBM -US Project) - Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Data Engineer Chicago, IL

10/2013 - 07/2014

(Repositories, Registration, QA

simulation, UAT), Environment

Config (Dev, QA, Prod), CI/CD

Tools.

• Analysis Skills: Well versed with

skills on predictive analytics,

correlation analysis, anomaly

detection, Data Interpretation and

Visualization skills, analyzing large

scale data from a variety of sources

etc. and Power BI to visualize

performance of metrics.

• Management Skills: Experience in

presenting ideas and analysis to

stakeholders whilst tailoring data-

driven results to various audience

levels and very strong

people/project management skills

by following Waterfall and Agile

project methodologies.

• Tools & Technologies

Languages: Python, SQL, R, Java,

Shell

ML/DL: Scikit-learn, TensorFlow,

PyTorch, Stats models, Keras,

Transformers (Hugging Face)

Data: ETL Pipelines (Apache Airflow,

Luigi, Talend, Informatica), Spark,

Hive, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake,

Databricks, Data lakes, PostgreSQL,

MongoDB, SQL, NO-SQL, MY SQL.

Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3), S3, Redshift,

Glue, Lambda, EMR

GCP: Big Query, Cloud Composer,

Dataflow, Pub/Sub

Azure: Data Factory, Synapse

Analytics, Databricks

MLOps: MLflow, Docker, Kubernetes,

Jenkins, Git, Prometheus, Grafana

Visualization: Power BI, Tableau,

Google Analytics, Matplotlib, Seaborn,

It, Jenkins, JIRA, Flask, Fast API,

Streamlit

Mondelez International, Deerfield, IL (IBM -US Project) - Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Data Engineer Deerfield, IL

02/2012 - 10/2013

CMS Consumer Energy Inc. Energy Company, Jackson, MI - Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer Jackson, MI

10/2011 - 08/2012

Kraft Foods/Cadbury Inc., Foods Company, Chicago, IL (IBM -US Project) - Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer Chicago, IL

11/2009 - 10/2011

Education

08/2020

IIT Madras

Chennai, India

Advanced certification: Data Science &

Artificial intelligence

Certificates in Power BI, Spark for

Data science, AI Quality Test and

Debug ML Models.

01/1995

Shivaji University

Kolhapur, India

Master of Business Administration

(MBA)

01/1993

BBIT

India

Post-Graduation Diploma: Computer

Applications

01/1992

Gulbarga University

Gulbarga, India

Bachelor of Pharmacy

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