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ARAVIND GARAPATI

Swanscombe,KEN

Summary

Results-driven Data Scientist with 7+ years of experience in telecom, retail, services, and other industries, specializing in transforming complex data into actionable insights. Proven track record of developing predictive models that enhanced customer retention in telecom, optimized pricing strategies in retail, and improved service efficiency in various sectors, directly contributing to revenue growth. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to streamline data processes, implement AI-driven solutions, and drive data-backed business decisions. Passionate about leveraging machine learning, statistical analysis, and big data technologies to solve industry-specific challenges.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Data scientist

Rakuten Symphony
weybridge, Surrey
01.2024 - Current
  • Developed Generative AI-based customer interaction model, integrating LLMs for automating telecom support and enhancing customer engagement.
  • Algorithm Optimization: Integrated LightGBM (LGBM) algorithm, which is known for its efficiency and performance, especially on large datasets with high-dimensional features
  • Conducted thorough hyperparameter tuning and applied advanced techniques like early stopping to optimize model's predictive performance.

Principal Accomplishment: Successfully integrated GenAI-driven chatbots into customer service workflows, reducing manual resolution time by 40%.

Data scientist

Depotnet
Henley In Arden, WAR
12.2022 - 09.2023
  • Developed and implemented computer vision algorithms for object detection, recognition, and tracking, resulting in 30% improvement in accuracy and 35% reduction in false positives
  • Designed and implemented Yolo-SSD Deep learning models for image detection and classification .

Principal Accomplishment:

  • Created and Integrated production machine learning pipelines and models with a daily processing capacity of 100,000 photos.

Data scientist

Wipro
Bengaluru
06.2021 - 08.2022
  • Carried out exploratory data analysis for customer in supply chain management, which led to discovery of process inefficiencies.
  • Developed Deep learning based LSTM forecasting model for retail client resulting in 20% operational cost savings .
  • Forecasting models were put into practice for inventory management at client store locations, which improved logistics supply system and produced more accurate project

Principal Accomplishment: This model improved region's total average repair time KPI by 28%.

Data scientist

Data Dynamics
Pune
04.2020 - 02.2021
  • NLP, BERT Transformers, and torch framework were used to develop Personal Identification Information (PII) Detection Machine learning model.
  • Used BERT to create new entity recognizer model based on transformers. Pre-trained Architecture & Model
    included new data science engine into the offering to address the shortcomings of the previous Spacy/regex based solution.

Principal accomplishment:
By successfully training the Data Science Engine with BERT Mechanism instead of Spacy/Regex code, we were able to achieve Critical PII Entity Tagging accuracy of 80% from 52%.

Data scientist

Impelsys
Bengaluru
08.2019 - 02.2020
  • Developed proof of concept for content-based, cooperative filtering and user-driven recommendations for junior library clients in US schools.
  • To suggest products to clients, a machine learning recommendation system model was built and integrated with the customer's e-commerce website.

Data Scientist

Ericsson Global Services
Bengaluru, KA
03.2016 - 06.2019
  • Predictive models were created in order to estimate service demand, spot possible disruptions, and allocate resources as efficiently as possible.
  • Worked together with cross-functional teams to create data-driven service improvement plans and identify key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Automated data collection, processing, and visualization tasks using Python, SQL, and Tableau, reducing manual effort by 30%.
  • Carried out root cause analysis on service incidents and put corrective measures in place to stop them from happening again, which led to a 20% decrease in the number of occurrences.

Key accomplishment: Spearheaded efforts to enhance service delivery procedures and apply ITIL best practices, which raised customer satisfaction ratings by 15%.

BSS engineer

Nokia
Bengaluru, India
06.2010 - 03.2016
  • Performed routine patches and critical software updates for BSS Nodes and Switches.
  • Software installation, setup, integration, validation, and troubleshooting of current solutions on client devices.
  • Third-level technical support for technical issues pertaining to BSS operations.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Communications

J N T University

Skills

  • Ability to solve problems
  • Critical thinking abilities
  • Skills in project management
  • Presentation and communication abilities
  • Cooperation and teamwork
  • Time management abilities
  • A keen eye for detail, flexibility, and agility
  • Ability to learn continuously
  • Data-driven perspective
  • Agile techniques

Certification

Google Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer

Expires: Sep, 2026


AVAILABILITY

From March 10th

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• A/B testing and statistical modeling

• Large Language Models (LLMs): Experience with fine-tuning and deploying LLMs such as GPT, LLaMA, and BERT for text generation, summarization, and chatbot applications.

•Generative AI Tools: Proficient in OpenAI’s GPT-4, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Google Gemini for content generation and AI-driven automation.

• Interpretation of p values in hypothesis testing.

• Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Tableau, and Power BI for data analysis and visualization

• Forecasting and Predictive Analytics understanding of contextual bandits, block design, uplift modeling, and sequential testing.

• IT Service Management: ITIL Framework, Incident Management, Change Management, Service Level Management

• Proficient in Python and working knowledge of libraries NumPy, Pandas ,PySpark

• Solid comprehension of pipelines for machine learning

• Yolov5,Yolov7 and OpenCV for computer vision and image processing

• Distributed training frameworks, such as Deepspeed, CUDA, and dask-ml; 

• Natural Language Processing: Skillful in NLP techniques and applications, such as sentiment analysis, text categorization, and language generation

• Docker image creation, publishing, and deployment; containerization

• Ability to apply maths, probability and statistics appropriately

• Machine learning algorithms (supervised and unsupervised) 

 • NLP (Natural Language Processing) using NLTK, spaCy, and BERT transformers.

• Statistical analysis, including clustering, regression, and ANOVA

• Techniques for pre-processing data (cleaning, integrating, transforming, and reducing data).

TECHNOLOGIES/TOOLS

Programming Languages Python Shell SQL Spark Data visualization tools Tableau matplotlib

Cloud platforms AWS  Google Cloud   ML/DL frameworks TensorFlow Kera’s Torch 

ML Libraries XGBoost   scikit-learn    MLOps Framework    Kubeflow ML Flow

AI Platforms AWS Sage maker Vertex AI Dataiku Database/warehouse  MySQL MongoDB Big Query

CI/CD Tools Jenkins Docker Git   Rest API Framework Flask Restful FastAPI

Generative AI: OpenAI GPT-4, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Google Gemini

Timeline

Data scientist

Rakuten Symphony
01.2024 - Current

Data scientist

Depotnet
12.2022 - 09.2023

Data scientist

Wipro
06.2021 - 08.2022

Data scientist

Data Dynamics
04.2020 - 02.2021

Data scientist

Impelsys
08.2019 - 02.2020

Data Scientist

Ericsson Global Services
03.2016 - 06.2019

BSS engineer

Nokia
06.2010 - 03.2016

Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Communications

J N T University
ARAVIND GARAPATI