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SUYASH.

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

Data Scientist & AI Architect with 8+ years delivering $500M+ in validated business impact. Specializes in developing novel data science solutions—taking concepts from 0 to 1. Rapidly prototypes using emerging tech, aligns cross-functional teams, and productionizes the solution at scale.

Work Experience

Albertsons

ActiveFeb 2024 – Present

Senior Data Scientist (Principal Platform Architect)

  • Enterprise Platform: Architected enterprise experimentation infrastructure across In-Store, Pharmacy, Digital, and Private Brands, scaling testing capacity from 3 to 10+ experiments per week and supporting $200M+ in annual business decisions.
  • Statistical Standardization: Cut experiment cycle times 40%, from 28 to 12 days, by operationalizing CUPED variance reduction across cross-functional business units.
  • Bayesian Evaluation Layer: Designing a Bayesian evaluation layer (Monte Carlo simulation) on top of CUPED to enable live monitoring and early-stopping of high-impact experiments, further reducing cycle time.
  • Data Democratization: Deployed a text-to-SQL RAG agent (LangChain, Claude) over a 50TB+ enterprise dataset, making embedded PMs self-serve and reducing post-experiment turnaround from days to minutes for partner teams.
  • Algorithmic Optimization: Rebuilt the pre-split randomization algorithm from the ground up for 30x faster, balanced assignment by minimizing Mahalanobis distance, and quantified the imbalance-versus-power tradeoff so teams can see the statistical power lost at any level of covariate imbalance.
  • Technical Leadership: Designed a human-in-the-loop pipeline where junior data scientists review AI-generated queries and feed corrections back into the RAG layer, improving first-pass validation accuracy 30% and accelerating onboarding.

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: Built an AI-powered healthcare operations SaaS live in 8 rural Indian clinics, with real-time consultation transcription, prescription generation, appointment workflows, and inventory management.
  • QuizBeef: Launched an LLM-powered learning platform (700+ users) that stores questions in Open Knowledge Format (OKF) and generates personalized lessons on the fly, using semantic parsing and FAISS vector retrieval for grounded, adaptive question generation.
  • mana-health: Architected a multi-agent wellness platform coordinating daily guidance, food analysis, and biomarker interpretation workflows (LangGraph, CrewAI, DSPy), enforcing typed outputs with PydanticAI and running LangSmith/Braintrust tracing and regression evals via a FastAPI and Next.js product surface.

Discover Financial Services

Aug 2022 – Oct 2023

Senior Data Science Analyst

  • Unlocked $114M in annualized volume: Disproved a decade-old employment-verification policy using XGBoost and propensity score matching, then designed an A/B test that drove a permanent policy change.
  • Recovered $1.8M in loan approvals: Diagnosed iOS funnel defects in the Automated Loan Approval platform and partnered with Engineering and UX to restore conversion flow.
  • Infrastructure Modernization: Migrated legacy SAS workflows to GCP and BigQuery, reducing infrastructure cost 12% and improving decision speed by 10+ hours per week.

Vodafone

Jun 2016 – Feb 2019

Data Scientist

  • Global Campaign Optimization: Generated $11.2M in incremental revenue for Vodafone Germany's 45M+ user base through customer segmentation and A/B-tested email personalization, increasing click-through rate 28%, from 1.4% to 1.8%.
  • Customer Lifetime Value Expansion: Developed retention and pricing models that improved customer lifetime value 5% and informed retention-based product strategy.
  • Production System Reliability: Reduced Priority-2 production incidents 60%+ by deploying Prophet-based anomaly monitoring across core models, saving approximately 20 engineering hours per week.

Kaizen

Jun 2021 – Dec 2021

Data Science Engineering Intern

  • Hybrid Predictive Modeling: Improved Toyota vehicle-sales forecast accuracy 8.5% using a hybrid Prophet and LSTM model; reduced two-factor-authentication false positives 13% through an AWS SageMaker anomaly-detection pipeline.

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, Autonomous Agents, dbt, Snowflake, LangGraph, DSPy, CrewAI, PydanticAI, LangSmith, Braintrust, FastAPI

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

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