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YALLA SAIKALYAN

@yallasaikalyan

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Data scientist and analytics leader driving ML solutions and operational BI to boost revenue and efficiency.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role where I can lead ML/analytics projects end-to-end, operationalize models, mentor teams, and deliver measurable business impact in a collaborative, data-driven organization.

I am a data scientist and analytics leader with strong experience building end-to-end ML systems, ETL pipelines, and BI platforms that drive measurable business outcomes.

I have designed and deployed production models (classification, ranking, forecasting) and engineered data lakes and ETL workflows across QuickBase, SQL, Spark/Hadoop, and cloud platforms to improve data freshness and integrity.

My work delivered concrete impact: grant renewals through predictive models, $1.6M ARR from sales enablement dashboards, margin improvement from pricing tests, and significant churn and conversion gains via propensity and uplift models.

I combine hands-on MLOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitHub Actions, MLflow) with visualization and governance experience (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, row-level security) and a collaborative leadership style focused on operationalizing analytics for scale.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Data Analysis Manager

Current

Horizons for Homeless Children

Dec 2024 - Present (9 months)

Architected a cloud-hosted QuickBase + SQL data lake unifying 12 sources and improved data integrity by 15%; trained Python classification models (ROC-AUC 0.85) that helped secure $1.2M in grant renewals and automated nightly ETL to raise data freshness from weekly to daily.

QuickBase SQL Python Power BI ETL AWS Lambda Data Modeling Model Evaluation

SBS Analyst & Project Lead

Suffolk University

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 (11 months)

Led a four-person team to build a SQL-driven fellowship-matching engine; implemented a gradient-boosted ranking model achieving 92.4% precision and saved staff 6 hours per week.

SQL Python Gradient Boosting Team Leadership Data Engineering Model Evaluation Project Management

Associate Senior Manager, Data Science & Growth

BYJUS

Oct 2023 - Dec 2023 (2 months)

Deployed real-time P&L monitoring via Tableau and nightly SQL ETL enabling pricing A/B tests that increased gross margin 2%; built XGBoost propensity and uplift models for 250k subscribers that lifted conversion 12% and reduced churn from 11% to 8%.

XGBoost Tableau SQL Spark Hadoop A B Testing Forecasting Marketing Analytics

Business Manager, Analytics Lead

BYJUS

Jul 2021 - Oct 2023 (2 years 3 months)

Built interactive Tableau workbooks and scheduled ETL extracts that accelerated acquisition of 92 high-value clients adding $1.6M ARR; automated SQL scorecards reducing manual reporting by 6 hrs/week.

Tableau SQL Cohort Analysis A B Testing SharePoint

Business Analyst

BYJUS

Nov 2020 - Jun 2021 (7 months)

Built Python and SQL ETL to unify CRM, Google Analytics, and transaction data, increasing qualified lead conversion from 17% to 26% and CSAT from 72 to 82; developed a predictive lead scoring model that improved marketing ROI 18%.

Python SQL ETL Google Analytics CRM Lead Scoring

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Suffolk University

Master of Science, Business Analytics

Grade: 3.97 GPA

Master of Science in Business Analytics with a 3.97 GPA, coursework in advanced data mining, predictive analytics, machine learning, and data warehouse and business intelligence.