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
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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
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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%
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
AI & Agents
Analytics & BI
Governance & Delivery
Certifications
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Azure Data Scientist Associate
Microsoft Certified
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Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Microsoft Certified
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Azure Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft Certified
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Azure AI Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified
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Azure Data Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified
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Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified
Education
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MS in Business Analytics, Specialization in Data Platforms & AI
Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business
2021 to 2022
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BTech in Computer Science Engineering, Minor in Data Science
PES University
2017 to 2021