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SUYASH.

LinkedIn GitHub Dallas, Texas, USA suyashkumarthakur@gmail.com

Data Scientist & AI Architect with 8+ years delivering $250M+ in validated business impact. Specializing in developing novel data science solutions—taking concepts from 0 to 1. Rapidly prototype using emerging tech, align cross-functional teams, and productionalize solutions at scale.

Work Experience

Albertsons

ActiveFeb 2024 – Present

Data Scientist IV — Principal Platform Architect

  • Enterprise Platform Adoption: Democratized causal data science by pioneering an enterprise-wide experimentation infrastructure across 4 distinct business units (In-Store, Pharmacy, Digital, and Private Brands); scaled cross-functional testing capacity from 3 to 8+ concurrent experiments/week, driving $150M+ in decentralized annual business decisions.
  • Statistical Standardization: Operationalized an automated distributed Spark and CUPED variance reduction pipeline enterprise-wide to achieve a 35% error reduction; compressed experimental cycle times by 40% (from 28 to 12 days) for all cross-functional product and analytics teams.
  • Data Democratization: Designed and deployed a custom GenAI Analyst Agent (SQL+RAG via LangChain and Gemini) over a 50TB+ enterprise dataset; empowered non-technical stakeholders to translate natural language queries into verified SQL, reducing post-experiment analysis latency from days to hours.
  • Operational Velocity & Scaling: Built an Auto-Summary Agent in partnership with business leadership to autonomously capture experiment telemetry and benchmark results; unlocked 240–400 hours/week of collective organizational bandwidth by automating executive stakeholder reporting loops.
  • Algorithmic Optimization: Redesigned the core assignment algorithm from the ground up to deliver 100% reliable, 30x faster randomization by minimizing Mahalanobis distance as the loss function.

Applied AI Research Lab

BuildingJan 2023 – Present

Principal Engineer & Product Architect

Founded an applied AI research and development lab to proactively build and stress-test emerging technologies and extract proven architectures to de-risk enterprise deployments.

  • ClinicOS (SaaS Deployment): Engineered an AI-powered healthcare management SaaS platform currently live in 8 clinics across rural India; conducted structured workflow mapping with physicians to implement real-time consultation transcription, automated prescription generation, and automated inventory pipelines.
  • QuizBeef (RAG Production): Architected an AI-native document comprehension platform scaling to 700+ users; synthesized learning science literature to deploy LLM semantic parsing and FAISS-powered vector retrieval for adaptive multi-source question generation.
  • mana-health (Agentic Systems): Developed an advanced multi-agent biometric orchestration platform implementing Critic-Reflexion loops; enabled autonomous agent self-correction and output verification across specialized physiotherapy and nutrition nodes.

Discover Financial Services

Aug 2022 – Oct 2023

Senior Data Science Analyst

  • Overturned decade-old risk policy: Used XGBoost + Propensity Score Matching to prove employment verification had zero predictive value for high-FICO borrowers (R² < 0.01), then designed a surgical A/B test that unlocked $114M annualized volume and 300+ incremental customers/month through friction reduction.
  • Enabled $1.8M in loan approvals: Identified and resolved critical iOS bugs through funnel analysis on the Automated Loan Approval platform, collaborating with engineering and UI/UX teams to restore conversion flow.
  • Infrastructure Modernization: Migrated legacy SAS workflows to GCP BigQuery, reducing infrastructure costs by 12% and improving decision speed by 10+ hours/week.

Vodafone

Jun 2016 – Feb 2019

Assistant Manager, Data Science

  • Global Campaign Optimization: Orchestrated data-driven email personalization strategies for a 45M+ user base in Vodafone Germany; designed an advanced predictive logistic regression and A/B testing framework that expanded CTR by 28% (from 1.4% to 1.8%) and generated $11.2M in incremental revenue.
  • Customer Lifetime Value Expansion: Developed complex linear regression models to predict multi-tier retention curves across varying subscription price points; strategically redirected marketing spend to optimize customer lifetime value (CLV) by 5%.

Senior Executive, Data Science

  • Enterprise Metrics Governance: Partnered with executive product leadership to instrument 15+ custom performance metrics; engineered automated SQL pipelines feeding core Tableau dashboards to stabilize long-term feature evaluation and model health tracking.
  • Production System Reliability: Engineered an automated time-series anomaly detection system (Prophet) to monitor model error rates across core infrastructure; reduced Priority-2 production incidents by 60%+ and reclaimed ~20 hours/week of core engineering bandwidth.

Kaizen

Jun 2021 – Dec 2021

Data Science Engineering Intern

  • Hybrid Predictive Modeling: Outperformed the existing production baseline by improving forecasting accuracy by 8.5% for Toyota vehicle sales; architected a hybrid time-series model combining Prophet and LSTM deep learning networks to isolate complex residual seasonality.
  • Security Risk Mitigation: Mitigated authentication friction by constructing an automated anomaly detection pipeline on AWS SageMaker; engineered a dynamic risk-based thresholding system that slashed 2FA false positives by 13% without degrading user sign-up flows.

Education

The University of Texas at Dallas

MS, Business AnalyticsJan 2021 – Jun 2022

Dean's Scholar; President, Data Science Club — led workshops and speaker series. Top Student Mentor for Data Science track: answered 800+ questions and coached 70+ students.

Pune University

BS, Computer Science and EngineeringJun 2016

Skills & Technologies

GenAI & Agentic Systems

LangChain, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Context Engineering, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Autonomous Agents, SQL+RAG, dbt, Snowflake

Causal Inference & Experimentation

Causal Inference, CUPED, Bayesian Methods (PyMC), Propensity Score Matching, Synthetic Controls, Heterogeneous Treatment Effects (HTE), Uplift Modeling, A/B Testing, SRM Detection

Data & Infrastructure

Python, SQL, PySpark, BigQuery, Airflow, Spark, GCP (Vertex AI), AWS (S3, SageMaker), Docker, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow

Visualization & Tools

Tableau, Streamlit, Git, Azure

Certifications

Google Analytics

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