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Experience

A track record of shipping data & AI.

7+ years spanning data engineering, applied AI, and agentic systems. I partner with enterprise, education, and ISV customers to take solutions from first conversation all the way to production, with governance and trust built in from the start.

7+

Years across data & AI

100+

Enterprise customers

35+

Solutions shipped to production

5+

Years on Azure data & AI

Selected impact

Outcomes, not just outputs

100+

Enterprise customers advised

Across education, ISVs, and universities

70%

Less manual review

Agentic AI document automation

40%

Fewer release errors

CI/CD automation on Azure DevOps

30%

Faster deployments

MLOps on Azure Machine Learning

25%

Faster model training

Scalable Microsoft Fabric pipelines

20%

Lower legal costs

NLP litigation risk modeling

Career

Where I've worked

  1. Data & AI Solution Engineer · Microsoft

    Dec 2025 to Present

    San Jose, California

    Trusted technical advisor to state, local, education, and ISV customers across the data and AI lifecycle. I design secure, scalable Azure analytics solutions, lead modernization and migration planning, and translate customer requirements into production-ready architectures.

    • Guide adoption of Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, Power BI, and Purview
    • Lead technical presentations, live demos, and hands-on sessions for customers and universities
    • Focus on governance, performance, cost optimization, and long-term maintainability
    • Partner with sales, engineering, and product from envisioning to implementation readiness
    Microsoft FabricDatabricksSynapsePower BIPurviewAzure
  2. Associate Data Consultant, Data Platforms & AI · Lantern

    May 2022 to Nov 2025

    Remote

    Delivered agentic AI, NLP, and applied machine learning solutions end to end on Azure, from data pipelines to production deployment and dashboards.

    • Agentic AI document automation cut manual review time by 70%
    • Attrition prediction model improved planning accuracy by 30%
    • NLP litigation risk modeling reduced legal costs by 20%
    • Azure Fabric pipelines reduced model training time by 25%
    • Azure MLOps reduced deployment time by 30%
    • Azure DevOps CI/CD reduced release errors by 40%
    Azure MLAzure OpenAIMicrosoft FabricPower BIMLOpsAzure DevOps
  3. Data Science Intern · Lantern

    Jan 2022 to Apr 2022

    Dallas, Texas

    Embedded with the data science team to build and validate ML models end to end, from feature engineering through evaluation and handoff to production pipelines.

    • Engineered features and ran model selection across classification and regression tasks for client analytics use cases
    • Built and cleaned training datasets to improve signal quality and reduce downstream model noise
    • Collaborated directly with senior data scientists, accelerating the path from experimentation to deployment
    PythonPandasScikit-learnSQL
  4. Data Analyst, Project · TXU Energy

    Sep 2022 to Dec 2022

    Dallas, Texas

    Delivered analytics for one of Texas's largest energy providers, translating raw subscription and customer data into executive-ready dashboards that drove commercial strategy.

    • Designed Tableau dashboards tracking KPIs for residential and commercial electricity-plan subscriptions
    • Built and automated Alteryx data prep workflows to replace manual reporting and accelerate insight delivery
    • Surfaced trends informing pricing and product decisions for business stakeholders
    TableauAlteryxSQL
  5. Data Analyst Intern · Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Jan 2021 to Jul 2021

    Remote

    Worked within HPE's global analytics function to optimize BI infrastructure and improve the accuracy of ML models powering operational reporting for leadership.

    • Redesigned ETL pipelines, accelerating data delivery by 15% across reporting workflows
    • Improved Qlik app reload performance by 20% through query and data model optimization
    • Applied SVM feature engineering to boost predictive model performance by 20%
    • Built dashboards enabling global leadership to track operational KPIs in real time
    QlikTableauPythonSQLETL
  6. Data Science Developer · Center for Pattern Recognition & Machine Intelligence

    Jan 2019 to Dec 2020

    Bengaluru, India

    Researched and built deep learning and NLP systems across medical imaging and literary text analysis, delivering models that reached production-grade accuracy benchmarks.

    • Built a COVID-19 detection model using VGG16 and PyTorch on X-ray and EHR data, achieving 98% accuracy
    • Developed NLP pipelines for persona and relationship extraction using NER and sentiment analysis, lifting reader engagement by 25%
    • Designed full training pipelines from data ingestion through evaluation and results reporting
    PyTorchPythonNLPDeep LearningVGG16
  7. Cloud Developer Intern · Center for Cloud Computing & Big Data, PES University

    Jun 2018 to Dec 2018

    Bangalore, India

    Researched distributed resource allocation and built real-time big data ingestion prototypes.

    • Prototyped a decentralized, partition-based resource framework with Docker and Mesos APIs
    • Designed a Spark Streaming and Hadoop model for live, parallel data processing
    SparkHadoopDockerMesosKubernetes

Capabilities

What I work with

Azure Data Platforms

Microsoft FabricAzure DatabricksSynapse AnalyticsAzure Data FactoryDelta LakeData Warehouse ArchitectureReal-Time Analytics

AI & Agents

Agentic AIMulti-Agent OrchestrationAzure OpenAIAzure AI FoundryRAG & Vector SearchModel Context Protocol (MCP)Copilot StudioFine-Tuning & Evaluation

Analytics & BI

Power BISemantic ModelingDAXEmbedded AnalyticsExecutive Dashboards

Governance & Delivery

Microsoft PurviewResponsible AIData GovernanceSecurity & ComplianceMLOpsFinOps & Cost Optimization

Certifications

  • Azure Data Scientist Associate

    Microsoft Certified

  • Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate

    Microsoft Certified

  • Azure Data Engineer Associate

    Microsoft Certified

  • Azure AI Fundamentals

    Microsoft Certified

  • Azure Data Fundamentals

    Microsoft Certified

  • Azure Fundamentals

    Microsoft Certified

Education

  • MS in Business Analytics, Specialization in Data Platforms & AI

    Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business

    2021 to 2022

  • BTech in Computer Science Engineering, Minor in Data Science

    PES University

    2017 to 2021