Shankar Rao Pandala

Bengaluru, KA, INDIA· +91-9920543046· shankar.pandala@live.com

Lead Data Science Consultant with 9+ years of experience in Analytics, Strategy and Data science. Hands-on working experience in R, Python, Tableau, Impala, Hive, Azure ML.
Author of Lazy Predict, A low code python ML library which builds lot of base models. It is currently having and 470+ stars on github. Similarly, Authored a python utility library call Lazyprofiler which will collect and plot the cpu, gpu utilization while a python block of code is running.

Experience

Senior Data Science Consultant

Applied Materials, INC (via Accrete hitech Solutions)

Providing Machine learning and Business analytics solutions to the client

Deployed a on-premise ML Application to Azure Machine Learning which assists docters in annotating and identifying Cancer cells

Build and Deployed Machine Learning models for predicting the cost and price of the machines manufactured by the Company. This helps the Senior Management to estimate the quarterly revenue and assists business teams in pricing the product.

Acted as team lead for multiple projects and mentored associates to achive business objectives

Trained multiple colleages on Azure Machine Learning and acted as an SME for Azure Cloud

Building analytics & visualization dashboards using Tableau to view the process in real time.

January 2020 - Present

Data Scientist (Associate)

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Providing Machine learning and Business analytics solutions to the client

Worked closely with client CEO and CSO for Demand forecasting of optical fiber over the world to make business expansion decision with both qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Project to improve the yield of the production by understanding the data of 1300 variables and a million rows using R and oracle database. Identified the factors that are impacting yield.

Working with CTO of client to provide machine learning solutions to find out the anomalies in the production of optical fiber.

Building analytics & visualization dashboards using Tableau to view the process in real time.

July 2013 - January 2020

Manager - Loyalty and Analytics

Richfeel Health and Beauty Pvt. Ltd.

Report to the founder and CSO to provide insights about improving the business through analytics

Analyzing customer behavior through clustering.

Forecast sales using time series and multivariate regression techniques

Analyzing marketing ROI and provide insights to help budgeting decisions.

January 2016 - May 2016

Associate Analyst

XLDynamics India Pvt. Ltd.

Responsible for managing 10 associate analysts.

Preparing SOP's and checklists required for the process.

Analyzing the loan documents submitted by the borrower.

May 2013 - December 2015

Education

Greatlakes executive education

PGP-cloud computing

June 2020 - February 2021

Udacity

Azure machine learning engineer Nanodegree

Deep Learning Nanodegree

AI for Trading Nanodegree

Self Drivng Car Engineer Nanodegree (Term-1 Completed)

2017 - Present

ITM Business School

PGDM - Financial Markets

June 2011 - May 2013

JNTU

Bachelor of technology

Computer Science Engineering

August 2005 - March 2009

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Interests

Apart from being a Data Scientist, I love to do arcylic painting, attending meetups and events related to upcoming technologies.

Most of the time I spend indoors reading books related to non-fiction, biography, history, philosophy, self-help. I have read 25+ books this year as of now. Spend a major amount of time doing MOOC's of new technologies and sometimes participate in data science competitions