Naveen Kumar Banala
ML Engineer & Solution Architect
Bangalore
Summary
With eight years experience working as a ML Engineer and more than twelve years of implementation and project management skills with product certifications, I strive to bring high-quality business intelligence solutions to businesses seeking higher efficiency. Skilled in analyzing complex data sets, developing predictive models, and translating insights into actionable strategies. Seeking a challenging role to apply my expertise in data analysis, machine learning to drive innovation and deliver impactful solutions.
Speaker at SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP TechEd and SAP DKOM.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
ML Engineer & Solution Architect
SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
08.2015 - Current
- Business Development: Interacting with Partners presenting SAP services with available partner opportunities across SAP solutions and guiding from the ideation phase till go to market.
- Co-Innovated with SAP program supporting partners in developing the applications which includes architecture guidance, enablement on SAP solutions, validating the developed application with SAP standards and list them on SAP store.
- Supported machine learning research/project teams in data engineering starting from creation of datasets, cleaning and analysing the data. Supported SAP AI Business services for Document Information Extraction service creating the pipelines and run the models.
- Fellowship with SAP AI Business Services team: Creating digital assets on the functionalities and steps to run the service of the Document Information Extraction and Locus framework integration on SAP BTP.
Project Lead & Functional Consultant
Magna Infotech (SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd)
Bangalore
08.2013 - 08.2015
- Guided Beta Program: supporting customers to implement the beta versions of SAP CX solutions.
- Functional validation of the new releases of SAP Marketing Cloud and SAP Commerce Cloud.
- Supported Solution Experience team to support pre-sales teams in creating demo content for SAP Marketing Cloud.
SAP CRM Functional Consultant
ETS Technologies
Bangalore
06.2011 - 07.2013
- Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.
- Preparing business blueprints and functional specifications for the business processes based on the requirements gathered during client interactions.
- Master data configuration and customization for Organization model, Business partners.
- Setting up of Marketing Planning and Campaign Management Procedures.
Education
Postgraduate Degree - Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence
International Institute of Information Technology
Bangalore 10.2021 - 12.2022
MBA - Marketing & Business Analytics
Siva Sivani Institute of Management
Secunderabad 06.2009 - 06.2011
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College
Tirupati 07.2005 - 06.2009
Skills
Python
Accomplishments
- Member of Data Science Lead Together forum
- Organized AI Enablement day at SLI - Hands on sessions
- Project Manager at Smart Labs - MD's office initiative
- Speaker at SAP SAPPHIRE, SAP TechEd, SAP DKOM
Speaker Sessions
- Harnessing the Power of Generative AI in the SAP Solutions. SAP TechEd 2023
- Transition Journey for SAP CRM customers. SAPPHIRE NOW 2019
- End to end processes using SAP C/4HANA & SAP S/4HANA. SAP TechEd 2019
- Overview session on SAP CX Portfolio. SAP d-kom 2018
- Make to Order with SAP ERP, SAP Hybris C4C and SAP Hybris Marketing. SAP TechEd 2016
Kaggle Projects
- Boom Bikes - Linear Regression
To model the demand with the available independent variables to understand how demand varies with different features.
- Housing price prediction
To model the price of houses with the available independent variables to understand how exactly the prices vary with the variables.
- Telecom Churn Prediction
To build a CNN based model which can accurately detect melanoma.
- Melanoma detection
To build a CNN based model which can accurately detect melanoma.
- Gesture Recognition
To build a model to recognize 5 hand gestures
Certification
SAP Certified Associate - SAP Hybris Commerce Business Analyst 6.3
Timeline
Postgraduate Degree - Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence
International Institute of Information Technology
10.2021 - 12.2022
SAP Certified Integration Associate - SAP Cloud for Customer
06-2020
SAP Certified Business Associate - SAP C/4HANA Business Processes - Lead to Cash
06-2020
SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP Marketing Cloud (1802) Implementation
11-2018
SAP Certified Associate - SAP Hybris Commerce Business Analyst 6.3
03-2018
ML Engineer & Solution Architect
SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
08.2015 - Current
Project Lead & Functional Consultant
Magna Infotech (SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd)
08.2013 - 08.2015
SAP CRM Functional Consultant
ETS Technologies
06.2011 - 07.2013
MBA - Marketing & Business Analytics
Siva Sivani Institute of Management
06.2009 - 06.2011
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College
07.2005 - 06.2009
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