Venkat Akshay Saladi

Data Analyst and Engineer @HealthPartners

Houston, TX, US

Drove large-scale healthcare analytics initiatives by building and automating T-SQL ETL pipelines to integrate EMR, retail pharmacy, and insurance claims data into a centralized warehouse, cutting manual effort by 80%. Designed star-schema data models and advanced Power BI dashboards adopted by 500+ clinicians and executives for KPI-driven decision-making.Delivered AI/ML solutions including predictive modeling for patient outcomes, NLP on patient feedback, anomaly detection in claims, and survival analysis for treatment optimization—reducing fraud detection cycles by 18% and improving care effectiveness.Led CI/CD automation via Azure DevOps for analytics workflows, enforced HIPAA-compliant row-level security, and deployed real-time streaming dashboards for hospital operations. Partnered with physicians, finance leaders, and IT teams to define outcome-driven KPIs, reducing reporting turnaround by 40%. Actively mentored junior analysts in SQL optimization, BI, and statistical methods, fostering a high-performance data culture.