Ankur Napa

About Ankur Napa

I help breweries, wineries, and distilleries improve fermentation consistency, product quality, operational efficiency, and sustainability using data engineering and AI on Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Azure.I combine hands-on brewing experience with data engineering, data visualization, and applied AI to solve real production problems in beer, wine, and spirits manufacturing.I work on:– Fermentation prediction and risk detection– Quality control analytics and anomaly detection– Production and sales dashboards– Raw material optimization– AI-assisted recipe and process modeling– Commercial planning and sales analytics– Sustainability analytics (water, energy, CO₂, waste, yield efficiency)– Smart brewery, winery, and distillery data platformsPreviously, I worked in commercial brewing operations, primarily in R&D, and later transitioned into data analytics and AI/GenAI development. This allows me to translate brewery-floor challenges into practical, scalable data systems that work reliably in real production environments.Technology stack:Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Data Factory, Warehousing, Power BI) • Azure (Data Lake, Synapse, Azure ML, Functions) • Databricks (PySpark, Delta Lake) • Python • SQL • Power BI • Streamlit • Machine Learning & Generative AICertification:Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)I’m currently building applied AI systems for fermentation monitoring and beverage quality optimization, along with advanced sales and commercial analytics and sustainability performance tracking tightly integrated into brewing, distilling, and winemaking process optimization strategies and end-to-end data platforms.If you work in brewing, winemaking, distilling, or beverage manufacturing and are exploring data-driven production, sustainability optimization, or AI adoption, feel free to connect.

Experience

1. Mentor

   Data Visualization Society

   Feb 2026 — Present · US

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Master of Science (MSc.), Brewing Science & Technology

  2013 — 2015

• International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

  PG Diploma, Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

• World Peace Yoga School

  RYT 500, Yoga Teacher Training/Yoga Therapy

• Coursera

  Google Data Analytics, Data Science

• Maharshi Dayanand University

  Bachelor's degree, Biotechnology Engineering

  2006 — 2010

• Liverpool John Moores University

  Master of Science, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence