Bio
Varun V
Data Science | Senior Manager at AbInBev
| 📍 Bengaluru | 📞 9916014327 |
Summary
Engineer with a decade of experience in Data & Analytics and Software, driving impactful solutions across diverse industries such as Retail, Banking, FMCG, and Manufacturing. Expertise spans analytics strategy, product development, and AIML architecture, showcasing a strong capability in leading complex projects and initiatives.
A passionate coder, constantly seeking to tackle technical challenges while fostering innovation in product design and development. Committed to staying ahead of technological trends and delivering exceptional results in fast-paced environments.
- Location: Bengaluru, KA, India
- Date of Birth: 24-01-1993
- Place of Birth: Trivandrum
- Nationality: Indian
- Hobbies: music albeit listening to only, magic the gathering
Languages
- English (Primary)
- Malayalam (Native)
- Hindi, Tamil, Kannada (Secondary)
Skills
- Cloud Platforms (Azure mainly, also worked with AWS and onprem) [Rating: 5/5]
- SQL (Postgres, SQLite, Azure SQL, Snowflake etc.) [Rating: 4/5]
- HTML/CSS [Rating: 3/5]
- Web Application Frameworks - Dash/Flask [Rating: 5/5]
- Machine Learning (Forecasting, Classification, Optimization) [Rating: 5/5]
- Automation [Rating: 5/5]
- VBA Programming [Rating: 3/5]
- GitHub Actions/Workflows [Rating: 5/5]
- Viz Tools (Tableau, PowerBI, Qlikview, Excel) [Rating: 3/5]
- Consulting [Rating: 5/5]
- Microsoft Azure [Rating: 5/5]
- Python (Programming Language) [Rating: 5/5]
- R (Programming Language) [Rating: 3/5]
- Docker [Rating: 5/5]
- Git [Rating: 4/5]
- Databricks (UC, MLflow) [Rating: 4/5]
- Full Stack (Node, Next.js, Tailwind) [Rating: 2/5]
Experience
Senior Manager
AbInBev, KA | 03/2024 - Present
- Took on additional responsibilities around strategy definition on top of the existing Lead Data Scientist role within the SupplyChain vertical
- Leading the effort to build in-house supply chain edge-based process improvement capabilities
- Overseeing end-to-end automated process control for brewing and packaging operations in breweries
Global Analytics Manager
AbInBev, KA | 05/2022 - 03/2024
- Lead data scientist for analytics projects undertaken globally in Supply
- Liaison between the 6 zones and the global function for projects around brewing quality and efficiency, AIML platform, and analytical solutions (aggregate ~1M USD capex/opex with benefits ~2-3M USD)
Lead Data Scientist
Tesco Bengaluru, KA | 05/2020 - 05/2022
- Designed and implemented an in-house product for test-control experimentation and review
- Built the defacto experimentation framework for Tesco (Store layout changes, product core set launch/tweaks, digital platform A/B testing, etc.)
- Tech stack: Hadoop Ecosystem, Dash web framework, on-prem cloud platform with custom VMs/load balancer
Data Science Specialist
Bain & Company, KA | 06/2019 - 05/2020
- Worked across business problems in strategy consulting and internal IP development
- Built a Supplier Negotiation Tool for the Retail practice (MetroChina as a key customer)
- Gained maturity in fundamental problem solving through varied engagements
Associate
TheMathCompany, KA | 07/2018 - 06/2019
- Onsite consultant at one of the largest beverage companies in the world
- Global framework to identify and retain employees at risk of attrition (~6k employees worldwide)
- Tool for quantifying yearly performance of employees
- Mentored/trained people in Data Science
- Deployed solutions on Azure (Databricks, Datalakes, MySQL) with mostly Python frameworks
Data Scientist
Mu Sigma, KA | 05/2015 - 07/2018
- Built a customer churn/retention prediction model for a major insurance client (6 months)
- Developed Excel VBA automation tools, Qlikview boards for a life insurance company (10 months)
- Presales/discovery phases across insurance, retail, government transportation domains (3 months)
- Forecasting project for a food services company to improve logistics with accurate sales predictions (4 months)
- Retail project focusing on batch forecasting of new products and cannibalization of existing products (7 months)
- Built synthetic test data generation for a Swiss bank’s offshore app-development (4 months)
- Consolidation project for a major footwear company integrating manufacturing supply/demand dashboards/workflows (4 months)
Education
Amrita School of Engineering
B.Tech (01/2015)