Brooklyn, New York

Sushanth
Data Analyst

I build the metric foundations, retention models, and experiment frameworks that NYC's fintech and SaaS teams use to make decisions. Carnegie Mellon MISM Graduate, Distinction - 3+ years across product analytics, ML engineering, and BI.

SQLPythondbt Looker / TableauSnowflakeA/B Testing Retention AnalyticsExperimentation
$1.2M
Revenue impact
10M+
Events / month
0.91
Best AUC
Certified
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Databricks Data Analyst Associate
AWS AI Practitioner
Career

Experience

Bluebird Technologies
Apr 2025 – Present · Brooklyn, NY
Senior Data Analyst — Applied ML

Core stack: SQL, Python, Tableau, and XGBoost on a B2B SaaS fintech platform serving 30K+ merchants. Built SQL data foundation over 10M+ monthly events, standardizing retention KPIs. Developed XGBoost retention model (AUC 0.82) improving quarterly retention 11%. Built time-series baselines reducing intervention escalations 28%.

SQLPythonXGBoostTableauRetention Analytics
Quantiphi Inc.
Feb 2021 – Jul 2023 · Mumbai
Machine Learning Engineer

Led data analytics and ML engineering for Coca-Cola Bottling's retail network — $1.2M incremental revenue via cohort-based recommendation engine across 30K+ locations. Reduced stockout losses 9% across 50K+ stores via demand forecasting. Led migration to Azure Databricks with Airflow + MLflow.

PySparkDatabricksAirflowMLflow
Carnegie Mellon University
2024 · Pittsburgh, PA
Research & Teaching Assistant

Built regression models over 100K+ behavioral records forecasting crypto adoption, improving 3-month accuracy ~20%. TA for Applied Econometrics — causal inference and hypothesis testing in R.

ForecastingRCausal Inference
Work

Projects

Credit Risk Analytics · FinTech

Loan Default Prediction & Return Optimization

Decision-aware credit risk framework for consumer lending — moving beyond binary default prediction toward return-optimized portfolio strategy using ensemble and neural net models on LendingClub data.

PythonXGBoostRisk Analytics
AUC0.91
Profit ↑18%
GitHub →
Data Analysis · CMU — 2nd / 40+ Teams

Pennsylvania Election Insights

SQL + statistical modeling over demographic datasets to surface voter turnout patterns. Interactive Tableau dashboards for non-technical stakeholders.

SQLTableauSegmentation
Award2nd Place
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Operational Analytics · MLOps

Real-Time Demand Forecasting Pipeline

Production ML pipeline with drift monitoring and automated retraining — the same architecture used for capacity planning and staffing models in operations-heavy industries. Sub-5% forecast error sustained under changing conditions.

PythonMLflowDocker
MAPE<5%
GitHub →
Computer Vision · Autonomous Systems

Driver Safety — Hazard Detection

Lightweight CV system for autonomous driving contexts. Optimized inference and cloud-edge integration for edge device deployment.

PyTorchCVEdge Deployment
Accuracy ↑18%
Latency ↓22%
GitHub →
EdTech · Generative AI — In Progress

Bookwormy

AI literacy platform for children — gamified reading with LLMs and RAG delivering safe, age-appropriate content dynamically.

RAGLLMsEdTech
StatusBuilding
AI Research · CMU

LLM Inference Optimization

Speculative decoding, pruning, and quantization for LLaMA2 and GPT-2 in PyTorch — benchmarking accuracy–performance tradeoffs for CPU and GPU deployment.

PyTorchLLMsQuantization
Speedup1.2×
Retention94%
GitHub →
Academic

Education

Carnegie Mellon University
2023 – 2025 · Pittsburgh
M.S. Information Systems Management
Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Distinction
Machine LearningA/B Testing Causal InferenceDatabase Systems Graduate AIUnstructured Analytics
Manipal Institute of Technology
2017 – 2021 · Karnataka
B.Tech Computer Science Engineering
Minor in Intelligent Systems
Data StructuresAlgorithms NLPComputer Vision Cloud Computing
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