Akshay Bhirud
Data Engineering | Analytics Engineering | Headway
- Role
- Manager, Data Science at Headway
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Akshay Bhirud
Hello there! I’m Akshay, I’m a Data Science Manager at Headway, and am very enthusiastic and dedicated towards empowering analytical teams with the right data and resources to make data informed decisions and recommendations. My experience across ecommerce, social media, DTC, retail and healthcare industries in data engineering, data science and analytics functions puts me in a driving seat as Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering and Data Science leader. Travel is a BIG part of my life and you’ll often find me touring, scuba diving, biking or hiking in different countries.Skills: Core Competencies: Data Platform, Data Modelling, ETL/ELT pipelines, Visualization, Experimentation Data Tools: Airflow, Snowflake, DBT, AWS, Presto, BigQuery, Tableau, Looker, Spark, Databricks Programming Languages: SQL, Python, R, LookML
Experience
Manager, Data Science
May 2025 — Present
Managing a team of 6 data scientists and steering data roadmap and product strategy for the Billing Infrastucture and Payments pods through cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Operations.
Education
Northeastern University
Master’s Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management
2016 — 2018
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering
2012 — 2016
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