Rithwik K Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru Area, India

+ Used discrete event simulations to forecast number of hires. This was an unusual choice and required lots of communication about how it works and how the probabilities can be used to make better decisions.+ Deployed MLflow on GCP using Docker and Kubernetes+ Used named entity recognition to reduce time taken for document reviews by more than half. This required organizing creation of training data, choosing right metric, knowledge transfers.+ Used topic modeling and classification to tag documents in a knowledge base.+ Provided consulting for operations folks around revenue forecasts, hiring requirements, probabilistic thinking.+ Rapidly prototyped interfaces to evaluate various text summarization packages.+ Did Monte Carlo simulations with Python, C, Julia, Go, Rust.

Bengaluru Area, India

+ Developed graph theory based targeted marketing algorithm using community detection.+ Led a three person team to deliver a churn prediction analysis for a DTH client+ Delivered on-site customer analytics (R, Hive) at an African telcom.+ Built DS skills in team by hiring, mentoring, talks (bayesian networks, multi-armed bandits)

Bengaluru Area, India

Created interactive dashboards for retail houses (R, Shiny) and PoCs to incorporate into product (Python)

Bengaluru Area, India

Automated a manual, error-prone reporting process using OpenRefine and R. This was a self initiated activity, and was my first taste of how powerful programmatic data analysis and advanced analytics can be.

Udupi

Experimental implementation of After Action Reviews (pioneered by the US military) after the 2013 state elections. Developed an appreciation for feedback loops and a taste for ideas from military.

Pune Area, India

Made analytics reports for consumption by client's management team

Worked with the Industrial Engineering Department to reduce changeover times of the duplex extruder in the passenger car radial (PCR) line using work/time study to suggest process improvements. Developed a habit of attention to detail, an eye for inefficiencies, and a spirit of continuous improvement.

Pgdm, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: . Finalists, Tata Crucible Quiz 2014; Runners-up, Tata Finance Quiz 2013 Co-head, Quiz Club (involved.

Bachelor Of Technology, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: . Player/Selector for Chess Team Writer/Editor for campus journal Industrial engineering, Operations Research.