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Tanuja Nair

@tanujanair

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Data scientist skilled in building scalable ML pipelines, predictive analytics, and business-impacting dashboards.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can build and deploy production ML systems, improve data pipelines, and drive business impact via analytics in collaborative, product-focused teams.

I am a Data Science student at IIT Madras with hands-on experience building and deploying scalable machine learning systems in industry.

At Nestlé I developed an automated fraud detection pipeline across 900,000+ outlets and created a Cost to Serve Power BI dashboard whose optimizations are being implemented Pan-India.

At Ford I built an end-to-end ML model and data pipeline to support early identification of potential recall events, and at Learn With Leaders I automated data preprocessing and backend components that saved substantial manual effort.

I combine strong Python and SQL skills with Azure, CI/CD for ML, and MLOps tools to deliver production-ready solutions that drive cost optimization and operational improvements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Data Science Intern

Nestlé

Nov 2024 - Oct 2025 (11 months)

Built an automated fraud-detection data pipeline for 900,000+ outlets and developed a Cost-to-Serve Power BI dashboard that identified pan-India granular cost optimizations; also created a regression model to optimize promotion discount strategies.

Data Pipeline Development Fraud Detection Power BI Python SQL Regression Modeling Azure Data Analysis

Machine Learning Intern

Ford Motor Company

Aug 2022 - Feb 2023 (6 months)

Performed statistical analyses to inform sales channel strategy and built an end-to-end ML pipeline to analyze US product data for early identification of potential recall events, including data quality checks.

Statistical Analysis Machine Learning Data Pipelines Python SQL Data Quality

Python Development Intern

Learn With Leaders

Sep 2021 - Feb 2022 (5 months)

Developed a standardized Python data-preprocessing module that reduced manual cleaning time by ~170 minutes per project and engineered backend components for a user assessment tool serving 1,000+ users.

Python data preprocessing Backend Development Automation SQL

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Bachelor of Science, Data Science and Applications

2021 - 2025

Activities and societies: Capstone project (Best Capstone, top 1%); machine learning project (top 2%); practical NLP examination (top 5%)

Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Applications with notable top-ranked project and exam achievements in business data management, machine learning, and NLP.