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KUMARAN SEKAR

KUMARAN SEKAR

Bangalore

Summary

Self-motivated Data-Science consultant experienced working with various cloud-based applications, data, breaking down information and applying interpretations to complex business concerns. Proficient in python, statistics, predictive and hypothetical modeling, visualization concepts and managing people & processes. Bringing almost 6 years of IT experience in strengthening company requirements

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Data Scientist

Great Learning Service Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
03.2024 - Current
  • Led AWS product team in developing new products and managing existing products in the data vertical (QuickSight, SageMaker, DevOps, Bedrock, Amazon Redshift, RDS).
  • Responsible for driving market research, Initiate Development plan, accommodate the resource
  • Mentored subordinates to achieve their metrics and managed team KRAs, implementing corrective actions with leadership support.

Data Science Consultant I

BigBasket(Innovative Retail Concept Pvt Ltd)
Bangalore
06.2022 - Current
  • Work closely with the DevOps teams to manage the cloud-based applications in AWS
  • Meet various business teams to interpret data and analysis to provide business inference reports
  • Hands-on experience in developing and deploying various Machine Learning (ML) models and statistics models
  • Developed various dashboards for different business teams and maintained them on a timely basis
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define features, integrations, and partnerships in data pipeline activities in redshift.

Quality Lead

Amazon Development
Chennai
09.2017 - 05.2021
  • Worked as DevOps - lead role in assigning, handling tickets and escalation related to the implemented pricing related ML models
  • Responsible for generating data using the database, analysis business outcomes and provide timely insights
  • Managed multiple new or existing organizational process improvement initiatives based on company strategic plans
  • Managed subordinates by mentoring them and also responsible for their KRAs.

Education

Master Diploma - Data Science and Engineering

Great Lakes Executive Learning

MBA - Marketing and Production

Saveetha School of Management

Bachelor of Engineering - Automobile Engineering

Anna University

Skills

Scripting Language

  • Python

ML algorithm

  • Regression
  • Bagging & Boosting
  • Random Forest
  • Decision Tree
  • NLP
  • Classification
  • Unsupervised Algorithms
  • KMeans
  • Hierarchical clustering

Statistical Methods

  • Hypothesis testing
  • Confidence intervals
  • Principal component Analysis
  • Dimensionality reduction

Working Methodology

  • Agile Methodology

Database Language

  • MySQL
  • Amazon redshift

Data Reporting Tool

  • Quicksight
  • Tableau
  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn

ML develop platforms

  • Amazon Sagemaker
  • Canvas
  • Amazon Forecasting
  • Amazon bedrock

Projects

Churn Prediction

Understand the customers' past purchasing behaviors and try to predict whether the customers will come again to BigBasket platform to make any purchase? To predict it, developed an ensemble model with various models such as XGboost, Random Forest and LightGBM model with 71% of accuracy. Post the classification, the tagged churn customers are shared to marketing folks to derive specific campaigns to bring back these customers. 

Orders Forecasting

To understand the daily/monthly demand at a store level, it will be easy for the operation head to fulfill the demand and supply. Developed a model using prophet by Facebook algorithm and multidimensional attributes were able to achieve 90% accuracy.

Topic Modelling

 BigBasket receives customer responses across different platforms as feedback such as Facebook, In-app feedback, Playstore/Ios feedback and Instagram. To understand the customer sentiment and what's in the response? Developed a script that uses ChatGPT APIs and fine-tune the prompts accordingly to provide the issue type, nature of the issues and their sentiment. It was very useful to display the customer's opinion to the leaders.

Linked Profiles

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumaran-sekar-847938116/

Languages

  • English, Proficient
  • Tamil, Proficient
  • Malayalam, Elementary

Timeline

Senior Data Scientist

Great Learning Service Pvt Ltd
03.2024 - Current

Data Science Consultant I

BigBasket(Innovative Retail Concept Pvt Ltd)
06.2022 - Current

Quality Lead

Amazon Development
09.2017 - 05.2021

Master Diploma - Data Science and Engineering

Great Lakes Executive Learning

MBA - Marketing and Production

Saveetha School of Management

Bachelor of Engineering - Automobile Engineering

Anna University
KUMARAN SEKAR