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Srinivasa Karur

Bengaluru

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.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

AI/ML Consultant Analyst / Data Scientist / Data Engineer

Msys Inc, Washington, DC
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.

Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

Baxter, Deerfield, IL
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.
  • created dashboards in Power BI; deployed models on AWS EC2 via Docker

Analyst / AI/ML Developer

Caterpillar, Peoria, IL
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%.

Lead Analyst / AI Prompt Engineer

Amgen Inc , Thousand Oaks, CA
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.

Analyst /Data Engineer

Tek Analytics, Schaumburg, IL
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.

Data Engineer / Data scientist /Analyst

Tek Analytics, Schaumburg, IL
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

Analyst / Data Scientist

Wintrust, Rosemont, IL
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%.
  • Delivered actionable insights via Power BI and Jupyter-based visual reports.

Analyst / Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer

Posh mark, Redwood, CA
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%,

Analyst / Data Scientist/ Data Engineer/Dev ops

Lear Corporation, Southfield MI
Southfield, MI
09.2020 - 06.2021
  • Built electricity price prediction model with time-series data using XGBoost and LSTM.
  • Created ETL pipelines and deployed model via MLflow; visualized trends via Prometheus + Grafana.

Data Scientist /ML Engineer /Analyst/Sr Developer

IIT Madras (Training AI/ML)
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.

Datawarehouse Analyst /Architect/Data Engineer

McKesson, Pharma Company, San Francisco, CA
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)

Datawarehouse Lead Analyst /Architect/Data Engineer

AES Energy, Washington D.C.
Washington D.C.
08.2014 - 07.2015

Implemented SAP Business warehouse for Inventory Optimization of MM, IM, Fixed Assets, Capital Spares from Plant and property, Plant &Equipment, ASSETS or Fuels for Working capital, IM, Purchasing.

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Data Engineer

Kraft Foods Inc., Foods Company, Chicago, IL (IBM -US Project)
Chicago, IL
10.2013 - 07.2014

The EMM -Enterprise Marketing Management project implemented to provide Real -time spending tactics/commitments

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Data Engineer

Mondelez International, Deerfield, IL (IBM -US Project)
Deerfield, IL
02.2012 - 10.2013

Implemented to Split the systems as per two separate legal entities to support Reporting System (MDLZ and Kraft) for about 3 thousand users across US and Canada utilizing BI/BW/ HANA/BOBJI /Portal Platform.

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

CMS Consumer Energy Inc. Energy Company, Jackson, MI
Jackson, MI
10.2011 - 08.2012

To provide the business the required BO universes and required reports for Customer service and Maintenance Order Notification, Operation and Header with info from cost, User status, Maintenance plan, Customer service Order and PM Order Header info and also required Master data and its attributes.

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

Kraft Foods/Cadbury Inc., Foods Company, Chicago, IL (IBM -US Project)
Chicago, IL
11.2009 - 10.2011

The project Sales and Trade Reporting System implemented and RTR (Record to Report) system for about five thousand users across US and Canada utilizing BI/BW, Business Object Platform.

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

Corbis Inc, Intellectual Property Company, Seattle, WA (SAP America Project)
Seattle, WA
04.2008 - 10.2009

The project consists of 5 releases with first release consists of financial and HR reporting, second release consists of Business consolidation and HR Reporting, third release consists of Business planning reports, fourth release consists of CRM-Analytics - CRM-Marketing reports and fifth release consists of CRM-Analytics CRM-Sales and CRM-IPM Reports.

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

Owens Illinois, Manufacturing Industry, Toledo, OH
Toledo, OH
11.2007 - 03.2008

Reports on Monthly reports on Demand Plan, Budget, and Forecast data and drill down to daily level and reporting including web reports and graphs, reconciliation reports

Datawarehouse: BI Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

ID Energy, Utility - (Public Sector), Imperial, CA (SAP America)
Imperial, CA
01.2006 - 10.2007

The scope of the Project is to develop “Management Information system” for Utility Industry with Development of Business ware house objects and “Management Cockpit and Balance scorecard “

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer (SAP America)

Boehringer Ingelheim, Pharma Industry, Ridgefield, CT
Ridgefield, CT
07.2005 - 12.2005

The project implemented with scope to develop “Executive reporting System” by automation of data collection from both SAP R/3 & non-SAP systems and other multiple ERP systems

Datawarehouse: BI Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer (SAP America)

Watson Pharma, Pharma Industry, Corona, CA (Madiba-US)
Corona, CA
03.2005 - 06.2005

The project implemented with scope to integrate Direct and Indirect sales data where Direct sales data is from source SAP and indirect sales data from non-sap source, and modification to the existing design and new integrated reports.

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/ Developer (Platinum DB Consulting)

Nalco, Services and Chemical Processing Industry, Naperville, IL
Naperville, IL
11.2004 - 02.2005

The project implemented with scope to integrate SAP and Non-SAP Balance sheet and Profit and Loss data and to develop individual and integrated balance sheet and profit and loss reports for both sap and non-sap companies

Datawarehouse: SAP BW Consultant – Techno-Functional Architect

Walt Disney, Entertainment Industry, Burbank, CA
Burbank, CA
02.2004 - 10.2004
  • Reviewed - Design of Back End objects, Architecture, Query performance and to implement major changes to back-end objects with Logical partitioning based on segments

Education

Advanced certification - Data Science & Artificial intelligence

IIT Madras
Chennai
08-2020

Master of Business Administration (MBA) -

Shivaji University
Kolhapur
01.1995

Post-Graduation Diploma - Computer Applications

BBIT
Bengaluru
01.1993

Bachelor of Pharma Engineering -

Gulbarga University
Gulberga
01.1992

Skills

  • Soft Skills: Lead workshops, stakeholder discussions, Achieving group consensus,Problem Solving,Business strategy,story telling, 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 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 (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, Statsmodels, 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 :BigQuery, 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,Git, Jenkins, JIRA, Flask, FastAPI, Streamlit

Other Project Skills

  • Problem-solving
  • Team leadership & development
  • Client relationships
  • Project leadership
  • Project implementation
  • Requirements gathering
  • Business analysis
  • Analysis & evaluation
  • Data warehousing
  • Data analytics
  • Reporting writing
  • Research and development
  • Project management
  • Cloud computing
  • Team collaboration
  • Change management

Timeline

AI/ML Consultant Analyst / Data Scientist / Data Engineer

Msys Inc, Washington, DC
03.2024 - Current

Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

Baxter, Deerfield, IL
12.2023 - 03.2024

Analyst / AI/ML Developer

Caterpillar, Peoria, IL
08.2023 - 11.2023

Lead Analyst / AI Prompt Engineer

Amgen Inc , Thousand Oaks, CA
04.2023 - 08.2023

Analyst /Data Engineer

Tek Analytics, Schaumburg, IL
12.2022 - 03.2023

Data Engineer / Data scientist /Analyst

Tek Analytics, Schaumburg, IL
08.2022 - 11.2022

Analyst / Data Scientist

Wintrust, Rosemont, IL
02.2022 - 07.2022

Analyst / Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer

Posh mark, Redwood, CA
07.2021 - 01.2022

Analyst / Data Scientist/ Data Engineer/Dev ops

Lear Corporation, Southfield MI
09.2020 - 06.2021

Data Scientist /ML Engineer /Analyst/Sr Developer

IIT Madras (Training AI/ML)
07.2019 - 08.2020

Datawarehouse Analyst /Architect/Data Engineer

McKesson, Pharma Company, San Francisco, CA
08.2015 - 06.2019

Datawarehouse Lead Analyst /Architect/Data Engineer

AES Energy, Washington D.C.
08.2014 - 07.2015

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Data Engineer

Kraft Foods Inc., Foods Company, Chicago, IL (IBM -US Project)
10.2013 - 07.2014

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Data Engineer

Mondelez International, Deerfield, IL (IBM -US Project)
02.2012 - 10.2013

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

CMS Consumer Energy Inc. Energy Company, Jackson, MI
10.2011 - 08.2012

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

Kraft Foods/Cadbury Inc., Foods Company, Chicago, IL (IBM -US Project)
11.2009 - 10.2011

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

Corbis Inc, Intellectual Property Company, Seattle, WA (SAP America Project)
04.2008 - 10.2009

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

Owens Illinois, Manufacturing Industry, Toledo, OH
11.2007 - 03.2008

Datawarehouse: BI Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer

ID Energy, Utility - (Public Sector), Imperial, CA (SAP America)
01.2006 - 10.2007

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer (SAP America)

Boehringer Ingelheim, Pharma Industry, Ridgefield, CT
07.2005 - 12.2005

Datawarehouse: BI Lead Analyst /Architect/Sr. Developer (SAP America)

Watson Pharma, Pharma Industry, Corona, CA (Madiba-US)
03.2005 - 06.2005

Datawarehouse: Lead Analyst /Architect/ Developer (Platinum DB Consulting)

Nalco, Services and Chemical Processing Industry, Naperville, IL
11.2004 - 02.2005

Datawarehouse: SAP BW Consultant – Techno-Functional Architect

Walt Disney, Entertainment Industry, Burbank, CA
02.2004 - 10.2004

Advanced certification - Data Science & Artificial intelligence

IIT Madras

Master of Business Administration (MBA) -

Shivaji University

Post-Graduation Diploma - Computer Applications

BBIT

Bachelor of Pharma Engineering -

Gulbarga University
Srinivasa Karur