Bharathan is one-of-a-kind analytics professional. The diversity in his training (CFA, MBA, MS in CS) and the richness of experience gives him a balanced mix of business and technology and the ability to translate between fields fluently. This has shaped his perspective of not doing data science for the sake of it.In 2018, he led a technical team, in the Telecom practice of HPE, tasked with developing a GUI driven expert system for on-demand advanced analytics, by business users at Telcos. He was recommended for promotion to Master Architect by the CTO of the practice, as his technical leadership was key to the development and successful deployment of the system at four different Telcos. This positioned HPE favorably with competition, besides generating revenues in surplus of 5Mn USD. The expected revenue in FY2018 from IP capture was north of 10M USD.He is also a co-recipient of the 2012 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award for delivering profitable growth using operations research for HP’s online store. The efforts of the team helped HP generate an additional $117 million in revenues at HPDirect.com.He walks-the-talk in continuous professional development. In August 2021, more than nineteen years after the start of his career, he acquired a Masters in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech. He was also a professional trainer in data science at Edureka! where he used to deliver this 10-session course. He fondly recalls instances of his trainees reaching out to thank him for helping them secure a job in the analytics industry.In his role as Chief Data Scientist and Managing Partner at Amplify Analytix, he delivered technical talks on the topic of Reinforcement learning (RL) at Dell Technology’s Bleeding Edge AI Trends session, before a few hundred Dell employees, which was well received.He joined Amplify in 2019 as Senior Data Scientist, helping the Data Science team there grow from 6 individuals to a 17-member team today. He has since built a diverse team with skills in Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Reinforcement Learning, Econometrics, ML Operations and Data Engineering.In 2020, under his leadership, Amplify Analytix was recognized as an exciting big data startup in Europe, winning an EUR 100k equity-free funding from the European Data Incubator, for the innovative use of Reinforcement learning in smart bidding solutions for Google Search keywords. In January 2021, he was promoted to Chief Data Scientist and Managing Partner in recognition of his contributions and potential.
Listed skills include Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analysis, Team Management, and 19 others.