PRAVEEN LAKSHMANA
Bengaluru
Summary
Highly experienced and resourceful leader in Data Science, specializing in AI, Big Data, and engineering projects. Excels at solving business problems through data manipulation and developing analytical models. Skilled in effectively communicating technical results to non-technical stakeholders and creating software prototypes. Possesses a strong background in project management, team building, and innovation. Demonstrates excellence in consulting, talent development, and technical direction, contributing to CSR initiatives and managing Data Science portfolios. Proven track record of achieving cost savings, streamlining processes, and improving decision-making. Extensive project experience includes vegetation monitoring, condition monitoring, handwritten recognition, AI-enabled healthcare solutions, and recommender systems.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior AI Consultant
Telstra In India Private Limited
08.2021 - Current
- AskTelstra : Ask Telstra is a state-of-the-art chatbot application designed to enhance customer support by utilizing Generative AI technology. This application enables Telstra agents to quickly and accurately address customer inquiries by searching through an extensive knowledge base of Telstra documents.
- Minincidents /AskOps : It aims to develop AI / LLM capabilities and solutions that support incident operations to respond to network and IT incidents, and drive better customer outcomes and business efficiency (DOOF / MTTR). The key outcomes of the initiative are:To reduce the impact, duration, and severity of major incidents by supporting both MIM, ITCC, and technology teams, by providing AI to support functions including diagnosis, impact analysis, mitigation options, recovery analysis, and more.Support MIM, ITCC, and technology teams to be more efficient and effective in leveraging data and tools.To leverage AI technologies (Large Language Model (LLM) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)) to connect with and process data from a variety of sources, leverage tools (through APIs) and automation.
- Cognitive Email Ticket Creation (CETC) solution's intent and purpose is to automate the creation of activities/service tickets/incidents in MAXIM and Service Central. The solution leverages Azure Machine Learning to classify the intents (Discipline/Product/Work Required in MAXIM, Category/Category Item in Service Central) of the emails received, and extract related entities from the emails using NLP algorithms.
- Telstra Spatial Insights™ Solution: Achieved an award " Telstra Excellence Quarterly Award
- Telstra Spatial Insights™ is a data-driven video analytics solution that provides businesses with secure, private, and ethical data to understand how their spaces and environments are being used. Leveraging cutting-edge IoT and AI technologies, this professionally designed and installed solution utilises machine learning models to autonomously collect highly accurate data – generating unprecedented insights for a given space or built environment, such as footfalls, occupancy, visitation, dwell time and more. Businesses can use these insights to take evidence-based and cost-effective operational
Data Science Associate Manager
Accenture
12.2015 - 06.2021
- Vegetation encroachment monitoring of transmission lines via satellite images using Amazon Sage Maker
- Condition Monitoring and object detection based on the thermal image
- Handwritten Recognition of Doctor's Prescription
- AI-enabled solution for Diabetic Retinopathy
- Corrosion Detection in Pipes via Deep Learning
- Primary care Physician Recommender Systems
- Member conditioning (Diabetes use-case) via Neural Networks
- AI-Enabled Social Distancing Detector in Elevator - Client Project POC
ML Lead /Developer
Mphasis
10.2013 - 12.2015
- Length of stay in hospitals using Neural Networks
- High-cost claimants using Logistic Regression
Senior Solution Integrator
Ericsson Global Services India Private Ltd.
04.2011 - 10.2013
- Created websites for STC (Saudi Telecom) to access data from the internal CMDB using the Django framework and implemented an efficient inventory management system with Django in Python.
- ¨Conducted a thorough analysis of authentic product usage design and crafted comprehensive project test plans and detailed test cases for quality assurance.
Senior Consultant
Wipro Technologies
09.2010 - 04.2011
- Assumed the role of an acting team lead and successfully managed the migration of all internal .NET websites from Lehman Brothers to the Barclays network, utilizing the Python Django Framework.
Specialist
Supervalu Services
09.2008 - 09.2010
- Initiated a website prototype using a Django skeleton system, expanding it by developing page views, templates, and CSS layouts to construct the entire site within the Django framework.
Education
Post Graduate Equivalent Certificate - Advanced Programme On Computational Data Science
Indian Institute of Science
Bengaluru, India11.2019
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Visweswaraiah Technological University
Bengaluru04.2008
Skills
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing
Large Language Models (RAG , Prompt Engineering)
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Python
Certification
Advance Data Analytics
— University of Technology Sydney ,2022
Data Science for Business
— DataCamp, 2021
UTS Microcredential Course - Data Analytics Foundations
— The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
DSE210x: Probability and Statistics in Data Science via Python
— Vendor: EDX • Credential ID: 8c46e0fd55a24c9cb4824fdc0e51ba40
Introduction to Deep Learning in Python Datacamp
— Credential ID:7702b0de6291f6dfdd999d62e3962604d04217e5
Machine Supervised Learning: Regression in Python 3 and Math | Udemy
— Credential ID:UC-68a8320c-5472-4a1b-bd17- 414f2d25db05
ConvNets: Dealing with Missing Data in Python | Datacamp
— Credential ID:feb44c635a7f6e1d3ceb8c7ef342025a5c0b038 Visualizing
Time Series Data in Python |Datacamp
— Credential ID:93d495c4d206100931892d8e7ca0922a0c788f75
Introduction to Predictive Analytics in Python | Datacamp
— Credential ID:221a311be75997781330a5f774432c3f00f0b839 Image
Processing in Python | Datacamp
— Credential ID:7da9feedc9e8896f94f9809ee1a20e8a7c6a7aa6
Timeline
Senior AI Consultant
Telstra In India Private Limited
08.2021 - Current
Data Science Associate Manager
Accenture
12.2015 - 06.2021
ML Lead /Developer
Mphasis
10.2013 - 12.2015
Senior Solution Integrator
Ericsson Global Services India Private Ltd.
04.2011 - 10.2013
Senior Consultant
Wipro Technologies
09.2010 - 04.2011
Specialist
Supervalu Services
09.2008 - 09.2010
Post Graduate Equivalent Certificate - Advanced Programme On Computational Data Science
Indian Institute of Science
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Visweswaraiah Technological University
Advance Data Analytics
— University of Technology Sydney ,2022
Data Science for Business
— DataCamp, 2021
UTS Microcredential Course - Data Analytics Foundations
— The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
DSE210x: Probability and Statistics in Data Science via Python
— Vendor: EDX • Credential ID: 8c46e0fd55a24c9cb4824fdc0e51ba40
Introduction to Deep Learning in Python Datacamp
— Credential ID:7702b0de6291f6dfdd999d62e3962604d04217e5
Machine Supervised Learning: Regression in Python 3 and Math | Udemy
— Credential ID:UC-68a8320c-5472-4a1b-bd17- 414f2d25db05
ConvNets: Dealing with Missing Data in Python | Datacamp
— Credential ID:feb44c635a7f6e1d3ceb8c7ef342025a5c0b038 Visualizing
Time Series Data in Python |Datacamp
— Credential ID:93d495c4d206100931892d8e7ca0922a0c788f75
Introduction to Predictive Analytics in Python | Datacamp
— Credential ID:221a311be75997781330a5f774432c3f00f0b839 Image
Processing in Python | Datacamp
— Credential ID:7da9feedc9e8896f94f9809ee1a20e8a7c6a7aa6
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