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Aparna Wani

Hyderabad

Summary

Bringing over 18 years of industry experience, including 10+ years dedicated to developing AI/ML solutions across diverse sectors. Expertise encompasses Predictive Modelling, Time Series Forecasting, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Prompt Engineering, and tools such as ChatGPT. Proficient in Python and R for scripting and analysis.

Demonstrated experience in establishing data science practice at an AI startup and currently managing and mentoring a team of eight AI engineers.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Gen AI Solution Architect

LTIMindtree
Hyderabad
02.2024 - Current

Responsible for:

  • Design and implement comprehensive solution architectures tailored to project requirements.
  • Responsible for the technical delivery of generative AI projects.
  • Ensured seamless coordination and delivery of multiple initiatives.
  • Stakeholder management across different project phases.

Gen AI Use Cases:

  • Delivered customized RAG solutions to multiple industry sectors.
  • Implemented nl2sql framework tailored for retail and telecom sectors.
  • Designed and implemented a feedback loop to capture the feedback and derive actionable insights from collected feedback.
  • Developed an AQM solution for performing post-call quality analysis.

Principal Data Scientist

Freelancer
Hyderabad
06.2023 - 01.2024
  • Free-lanced to set up data science discipline
  • Contributed to pre-sales activities and created POCs for clients.

Senior Data and Applied Scientist

Microsoft India
Hyderabad
01.2016 - 01.2023

Worked with multiple teams including Sales IT, Azure Quota Management and MCS

Developed Time Series forecasting models for key business needs, including:

  • Predicting cloud consumption for Microsoft products (Azure, O365, D365) using the HTS framework, with insights visualized in a Power BI dashboard utilized by 1,500+ monthly active users within Microsoft.
  • Forecasting monthly incident volumes to support planning and budgeting for seamless customer support.
  • Designed and implemented hybrid/ensemble models to enhance prediction accuracy and reliability.

Developed NLP solutions to address diverse business challenges, including:

  • Text classification model for evaluating quality issues needing further investigation, utilizing a limited domain-specific data set of 650 records. Incorporated LIME and SHAP for explainability.
  • Entity Relationship Extraction: Designed a solution for pharma researchers to identify relationships between entities within a large corpus, aiding drug discovery. Delivered insights via a Power BI dashboard, and utilized Azure Search and SpaCy for implementation.
  • Conversational AI for Telecom: Implemented a chatbot using LUIS and QnA Maker, collaborating with stakeholders to fine-tune training data for optimal performance.

Principal Analyst

Alliance Life Sciences Consulting Group Inc
Pune
05.2012 - 12.2015

Revenue Optimization and Price minimization for pharma companies – worked on IRP (international reference pricing) and LSO (launch sequence optimizer) solutions which optimizes the revenue for pharma companies by suggesting the order in which the new drug should get launched globally before the patent expires. Used Simulated Annealing algorithm for optimization.

Statistical Analyst

Synechron Technologies
Pune
03.2009 - 06.2011

Worked on BI solutions using excel Pivots and charts. Created backward-looking reports to aid business review.

Statistical Programmer

Cytel Statistical Software and Services
Pune
06.2005 - 02.2009

Worked as a tester for the statistical solutions developed for pharmaceutical companies to design and analyze clinical trials, and I worked on Excel macros, SAS programs, and automated testing tools.

Education

Post-Graduate Diploma - Business Analytics

SCMHRD
Pune
06-2012

Master of Science - Statistics

Dept of Statistics, University of Pune
Pune, India
06-2005

Skills

  • Generative AI, ChatGPT, LLMs, Prompt engineering, Semantic Catching, RAG Implementation, LLM Fine -tuning, Spacy, NLTK
  • Azure AI Studio, Prompt Flow, Langchain, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Speech-to-text, Text-to-Speech services, Ragas
  • Experience of working with best practices in Agile Methodology, DevOps, MLOps and deployment of ML models

Certification

  • AI-102

Affiliations

  • CSR activities are close to my heart, and I have been actively participating in some of the initiatives since 2012.
  • Presented at Hopper-X1 Hyderabad (GHCI Hyderabad chapter) in 2018, this conference was mainly targeted for aspiring Data Scientists. Briefed them on how the day-to-day life of a DS looks like using DSLC, challenges and opportunities.

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnawani/

Timeline

Gen AI Solution Architect

LTIMindtree
02.2024 - Current

Principal Data Scientist

Freelancer
06.2023 - 01.2024

Senior Data and Applied Scientist

Microsoft India
01.2016 - 01.2023

Principal Analyst

Alliance Life Sciences Consulting Group Inc
05.2012 - 12.2015

Statistical Analyst

Synechron Technologies
03.2009 - 06.2011

Statistical Programmer

Cytel Statistical Software and Services
06.2005 - 02.2009

Post-Graduate Diploma - Business Analytics

SCMHRD

Master of Science - Statistics

Dept of Statistics, University of Pune
Aparna Wani